[Biococoa-dev] WWDC 2005 BioCocoa meeting

[Koen van der Drift]

Hi Alex,

This is absolutely fantastic!  It is encouraging that Apple contacted 
you to organize the meeting. Thanks for setting this up. The abstract 
also looks fine to me. Too bad I cannot attend the meeting :(

I think one thing that could be discussed is our current framework 
design. We've already gone through a couple of iterations and I think 
we rather not want to go through that again ;). However, it will be at 
the base of the rest of the code, and I think it would be good to get 
some input on it. Now is the time to make adjustments before we start 
adding a lot more code to it.

- Koen.


On May 28, 2005, at 3:52 PM, <a.griekspoor at nki.nl> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> It's a been quite a while and the BioCocoa mailinglist has come to a 
> rest lately, but let's keep it on the silence before the storm. I 
> spoke to a few a you already offlist already, but I would like to let 
> you know that something is cooking underneath the surface. Due to 
> personal circumstances it was unclear whether Tom and I would go to 
> the WWDC at all, and this was one of the reasons I failed to pursue a 
> BioCocoa meeting at the WWDC. Now the good news is that in the end 
> there will be a BioCocoa meeting after all. Also, Tom and I will leave 
> for SF this thursday. Also Phil and Peter will be there. Last week the 
> scitech people of Apple contacted us if we would like a BioCocoa 
> meeting to be organized. We have held a teleconference to discuss the 
> different options and agreed on the  following:
>
> - Wednesday night from 19 (hands-on-lab) we will have reserved room to 
> our availability.
> - We will give a short presentation followed by Q&A and dicussions.
> - A number of Apple staff people will be present in the audience.
> - The meeting will be announced during the WWDC and on the website 
> (http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/sciencedev.html)
>
> Unfortunately, they could not sponsor any seats for non-scholarship 
> candidates, although they might be able to arrange entrance at 
> wednesday night for Charles who's located close by at Stanford. 
> Together we will represent the BioCocoa team and will give a short 
> presentation followed by a discussion session. Hopefully this leads to 
> more interest in the project both from "users" and new developers. 
> Perhaps it's nice to discuss the presentation details, discussion 
> points on the list. The people at Apple asked me to write a short 
> abstract and the topics of the meeting, which had to be done in under 
> and hour, so please bare this in mind...
>
> More to follow....
> Cheers,
> Alex
>
> Here's the abstract for the BioCocoa meeting:
>
> BioCocoa is an opensource Cocoa framework for bioinformatics written 
> in Objective-C. We intend to provide Cocoa programmers with a full 
> suite of tools, to edit and manipulate biological sequence 
> information. Initially started as framework to read and write the 
> plethora of available sequence file formats, we work to make BioCocoa 
> a more general bioframework leveraging the power of the objective-C 
> language and Cocoa frameworks. Eventually, we aspire to become 
> siblings of OpenBio.org projects like BioJava, BioPerl, BioRuby. 
> During a short presentation and discussion session we would like to 
> present the BioCocoa framework and discuss its possibilities. We 
> welcome everybody interested in developing bioscience applications to 
> join in and help us build the ideal foundation for the next generation 
> Mac bio apps. See you there!
>
> URL: http://bioinformatics.org/project/?group_id=318
>
> Topics being covered during presentation:
>
> - introduction to BioCocoa
> - framework structure and layout
> - design principles and choices
> - current status
> - future plans
> - Q&A, discussion
>
>
>
>
>
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