[Bioperl-l] BioPerl at YAPC::2010

[Robert Buels]

Steven,

Could you CC Heath Bair <BAIRH at nationwide.com> on this?  He's the 
YAPC::NA 2010 coordinator that started this thread.

Rob


Steven Lembark wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:06:06 -0700
> Robert Buels <rmb32 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> 
>> This is a really giant opportunity to expose some of the best 
>> technologists in the world to what we do in bioinformatics, and possibly 
>> to entice some of them to help us the heck out!  ;-)
> 
> OK, so I'm a few months behind on my email...
> 
> One suggestion: Have them add a BioPerl track to the
> conference in advance of getting any submissions for
> it. The gent I spoke to in Pittsburgh seemed open to
> the idea of a Bioinformatcs/BioPerl track in 2010.
> 
> Opening things up a bit to include Bioinformatics
> even beyond BioPerl would give people who are 
> marginally interested a chance to see what the 
> whole area is about (e.g., adapting the W-Curve
> for use with Perl or how we analyzed Clostridia
> using Perl for the bookkeeping).
> 
> In the meantime you might want to see how many 
> people would be willing to give talks in the 
> track -- even recycled ones -- before the conference
> submission period begins. And, yes, I'd volunteer to
> give 1-2 talks.
> 
> enjoi
> 


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Robert Buels
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