[BioRuby] EU Codefest 2012 Announcement

[Francesco Strozzi]

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) EU-CodeFest will be held in
Parco Tecnologico Padano (PTP) Lodi, Italy on the19th – 20th of July.
The CodeFest is a small focused event under the auspices of the Open
Bioinformatics Foundation, and is a sister event of BOSC2012 being
held in California USA this year.
Three main topics will be worked on during the CodeFest:

- NGS and high performance parsers for OpenBio projects.
- RDF and semantic web for bioinformatics.
- Bioinformatics pipelines definition, execution and distribution.

The number of places is limited to 30 participants at maximum, on a
first come, first serve basis. Undergraduate and PhD students are
welcome to participate.
The cost of the event is EUR 100 per person, which includes also
lunches, coffee breaks and the social dinner on the 19th of July.
Only for students, we can sponsor a limited number of attendees that
will not pay for the registration fee. Those students, willing to
participate for free to the event, will be asked to submit their
qualifications and experience in software development. The organizing
committee will review students’ applications before final acceptance.
Talks and abstracts may be presented during the CodeFest in sessions
of 10 minutes plus questions. Coding activities will continue during
the talks.

The City of Lodi is very close to Milano and has good hotel
facilities. The connections by air are excellent, via Milano Malpensa,
Milano Linate and Bergamo Orio Al Serio airports.

Please register soon using the form at this page
http://tecnoparco.org/codefest, places may run out quickly.


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Francesco