[Biopython-dev] Biopython update talk at BOSC 2014

[Eric Talevich]

Hi Bow,

The abstract looks good. It's great to see you're carrying the torch this
year.

In the second paragraph, the sentence beginning "New features since version
1.62" confused me. Should this be "New features *in* version 1.62"? My
recollection is that the listed features were actually introduced after
1.63, in which case that sentence would move to the end of the paragraph as
"new features since version *1.63*". I'm looking at:
http://news.open-bio.org/news/2013/08/biopython-1-62-released/
http://news.open-bio.org/news/2013/12/biopython-1-63-released/

Maybe you could streamline that paragraph to say that since BOSC 2013
Biopython has successfully supported Python 2 and Python 3 (and Pypy and
Jython 2.7) with a single codebase, and leave the details of the transition
for the talk. Then describe the other changes/enhancements. Also, in the
same paragraph: "various enhancements" could be swapped for "other
significant enhancements".

Cheers,
Eric


On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Wibowo Arindrarto
<w.arindrarto at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm forwarding the previous message to the mailing list now. I just
> realized that my message did not get through yesterday due to the
> attachment :(. Apologies for the quite late check, should've checked
> this earlier.
>
> I have now reuploaded our abstract here: http://bit.ly/biopython_bosc_2014
> .
>
> As noted below, please let me know if there are additions / deletions
> you would like me to make before the abstract is submitted.
>
> Best,
> Bow
>
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Wibowo Arindrarto
> <w.arindrarto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I've finished the first draft of our update (attached). Please let me
> > know if there are additions / deletions you would like me to make
> > before I submit the abstract.
> >
> > Also, some things I would like to note:
> >
> > * I am missing the formal affiliations of everybody in the authors
> > list except for me and Peter. Could you please send me your most
> > recent affiliation?
> >
> > * I'm not sure about whether to include Tiago's recent Biopython
> > docker container (I think it would be nice). Tiago, do we have the
> > container up and running for our tests?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Bow
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Wibowo Arindrarto
> >> <w.arindrarto at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi Peter, everyone,
> >>>
> >>> A LaTeX template would be great :). I'm still preparing the abstract,
> >>> should be ready for everyone to check soon.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Bow
> >>
> >> LaTeX template sent.
> >>
> >> I will be travelling the next few days and may be largely out of
> >> email contact - so if you don't hear from me, don't worry and
> >> submit the abstract anyway. I'm confident the others will have
> >> good advice and suggestions (and I'm not the only one who
> >> does email list moderation - but it might be simpler to send
> >> round plain text and a link to the PDF if you want to show it
> >> and not worry about the attachment triggering moderation).
> >>
> >> As usual this will get reviewed by the BOSC panel, and you'll
> >> have a chance to revise the abstract at that point - for the
> >> project updates is it OK if the initial text has a couple of details
> >> "to be confirmed", like a summary of the forthcoming release
> >> Biopython 1.64 (time for another thread, maybe we can aim
> >> for the end of this month?).
> >>
> >> Thanks Bow,
> >>
> >> Peter
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