[BioRuby] The first BioRuby IRC conference on Dec 19th

[pjotr.public14 at thebird.nl]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 08:51:32PM +0900, Toshiaki Katayama wrote:
> Dear BioRuby developers,
> 
> Here we announce the first BioRuby world wide IRC conference!
> 
> The topic is: "Current and future BioRuby development"
> 
> The meeting is Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010, at 23pm JST (Japanese Standard Time),
> which is 15pm CET (Central European Time) and 9am EST (New York) and
> 6am PST (California time).

Great idea! I, for one would like to look at BioRuby on the JVM.

Another topic would be integrationg the brilliant
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/. Yes, it is Python, but we could
bridge that.

Would it be an idea to have talks? We could do that in the form of
videos. I don't know what people would like to present, but if you are
interested in giving, or hearing, some talk, we could make them
available just before the conference day. Videos of 10-20 minutes,
preferably a code walk/tutorial. 

Who is game?

If anyone is interested I could do a talk on either

1. Ruby actors for parallelization
2. The (not yet high performance) genome browser plugin (GFF3)

Maybe Raoul can present the plugin system, and Naohisa a code walk on
certain modules? Anyone interested in a presentation on Rubyshell
inside the browser (Rails)?

If it is successful, we could make this an annual happening.

Pj.