From dlondon at ebi.ac.uk Tue Apr 19 05:16:30 2005 From: dlondon at ebi.ac.uk (Darin London) Date: Tue Apr 19 07:05:19 2005 Subject: [Bioperl-announce-l] Re: BOSC 2005 In-Reply-To: <20050120175859.GA7254@parrot.ebi.ac.uk> References: <20050120175859.GA7254@parrot.ebi.ac.uk> Message-ID: <20050419091628.GN17377@parrot.ebi.ac.uk> {Please pass the word!} SECOND CALL FOR SPEAKERS The 6th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC'2005) is organized by the not-for-profit Open Bioinformatics Foundation. The meeting will take place June 23-24, 2005 in Detroit, Michigan, USA, and is one of several Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings occurring in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology. see http://www.iscb.org/ismb2005 for more information. Because of the power of many Open Source bioinformatics packages in use by the Research Community today, it is not too presumptuous to say that the work of the Open Source Bioinformatics Community represents the cutting edge of Bioinformatics in general. This has been repeatedly demonstrated by the quality of presentations at previous BOSC conferences. This year, at BOSC 2005, we want to continue this tradition of excellence, while presenting this message to a wider part of the Research Community. Please, pass this message on to anyone you know that is interested in Bioinformatics software. BOSC PROGRAM & CONTACT INFO * Web: http://www.open-bio.org/bosc2005/ * Online Registration: https://www.cteusa.com/iscb4/ * Email: bosc@open-bio.org FEES * Corporate : $195 ($245 after May 16th) * Academic : $170 ($220 after May 16th) * Student : $145 ($195 after May 16th) SPEAKERS & ABSTRACTS WANTED The program committee is currently seeking abstracts for talks at BOSC 2005. BOSC is a great opportunity for you to tell the community about your use, development, or philosophy of open source software development in bioinformatics. The committee will select several submitted abstracts for 25-minute talks and others for shorter "lightning" talks. Accepted abstracts will be published on the BOSC web site. If you are interested in speaking at BOSC 2005, please send us before April 26, 2005: * an abstract (no more than a few paragraphs) * a URL for the project page, if applicable * information about the open source license used for your software or your release plans. Abstracts will be accepted for submission until April 26, 2005. Abstracts chosen for presentation will be announced May 12, 2005 (before the ISMB Early Registration Deadline). LIGHTNING-TALK SPEAKERS WANTED! The program committee is currently seeking speakers for the lightning talks at BOSC 2005. Lightning talks are quick - only five minutes long - and a great opportunity for you to give people a quick summary of your open source project, code, idea, or vision of the future. If you are interested in giving a lightning talk at BOSC 2005, please send us: * a brief title and summary (one or two lines) * a URL for the project page, if applicable * information about the open source license used for your software or your release plans. We will accept entries on-line until BOSC starts, but space for demos and lightning talks is limited.
(sorry for multiple postings, but please do forward to anyone else who you think might be interested) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- Dear everyone, It has been a long time and we Bioinformatics devotees are overdue for another total-immersion coding-fest (the last hackathon was held in Singapore February 2003, more than two years ago). Apple has offered to host us this year, and as an added bonus include free admission to the World-Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco the prior week. They are also looking for some people to present interesting new developments at the WWDC, so if you have something noteworthy please let us know. Apple is not attaching any strings, so our work need not address Apple-specific software or hardware areas. Apple will provide space and hardware (and access to their engineers if we'd like). Week 1 (June 6-10) would be spent at the WWDC. Week 2 (June 12-16) would be in Cupertino, at Apple's headquarters. We're free to focus on what interests us, our tentative plans include: 1. Bio-ontologies software 2. High-performance computing (e.g. large scale computations, optimization) 3. Image analysis 4. Documentation 5. Anything else that may interest you Our plan is to organize this much as the Aspen Center for Physics computational biology workshops were organized (for those old enough to remember): A couple of presentations to start the day; collaboration and coding afterwards; time for a bit of fun (does anyone else cycle?), and discussions in the late afternoons and evenings. Would everyone who is interested in attending please send us a short description of what you would like to do, and perhaps other people who you would like to work with. There is somewhat limited space, so we will try to prioritize groups that have a clear focus and a need to interact. We now this is very short notice, but we hope that there will be enough interest to make it possible. We are looking into additional funding support, to pay for travel expenses, but this is still to be decided. Looking forward to hearing from everyone. George, Cyrus, Steve, and Suzanna (the Bay Area locals)