[Biojava-dev] Hackathon

[Richard Holland]

Hi all.

Andreas and I would like to organise a hackathon to get the
modularisation and general improvement plans for BJ3 into action, and
bring the project forward into the 21st century (only 10 years late!).

At this time I'm trying to gather interest and gauge who might
realistically be able to attend. We will attempt to site the hackathon
at a location closest to the majority of attendees.

To help me plan numbers and likely costs (for potential sponsors) could
all those who are interested please answer the following questions for
me:

 1. Name,
 2. Specialist interest within Biojava (e.g. proteomics, microarrays,
sequencing, etc.),
 3. Your physical location (country and and nearest major city - e.g.
Cambridge, London, Newcastle, San Diego, Singapore, etc.),
 4. Whether you think your employer would help pay your airfare and/or 1
week in a hotel to attend (and how far you think you could go on such
funding),
 5. Approximate availability for the next 12 months.

To get the ball rolling, here's me:

 1. Richard Holland,  2. Making the whole thing more consistent,
efficient, and easier to use,  3. Southampton (UK),  4. Possibly but
probably only within UK/Europe,  5. Only available in mid-Jan 2010,
otherwise can't do anything until mid-March 2010 onwards.

Looking forward to hearing your comments! Once I have a good idea of
numbers and distribution, I can get some costs together to give you (and
any potential sponsors) the best idea of what might be involved.

cheers,
Richard

-- 
Richard Holland, BSc MBCS
Operations and Delivery Director, Eagle Genomics Ltd
T: +44 (0)1223 654481 ext 3 | E: holland at eaglegenomics.com
http://www.eaglegenomics.com/