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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • January 25, 2001
    Ewan Birney writes:
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    We will be attempting to run another Bioinformatics Open Source Conference just before ISMB 2001. We have recieved information that this is likely to be able to occur and will possibly have extensive computer support, therefore allowing development to occur as well as talks.

    At the moment we are gathering our thoughts and generally mapping out the form of the conference. We would like input from the wider open source bioinformatics community for ideas about the conference.

    The practical aims of this is to

    (a) come up with a format for the day(s)

    (b) appoint a committee to run the conference.

    It is likely that myself and Chris Dadigidan will be the core of the committee as we've done this before and we know what is going on. (Frankly if someone wants to take over my cheer-leading role, you are more than welcome! Endless patience and good email-discipline is a must...)

    I would suggest the following committee membership:

    Each of the major groups nominate one person on the committee. I would suggest: bioperl (possibly me or chris), biojava, biopython, emboss, acedb, ensembl (possibly me) each has one person assigned to be on the committee.

    Then I would like to see if we can reach out into the smaller projects, including ones I haven't listed here, such as the nascent bioLISPers, I believe there is an open source Bio PathWays group, the Apollo/Gadfly people might want to make sure they are represented. biocorba and bioxml - you are smaller projects at the moment) Ideally one or two people can come from the smaller projects.

    Total committee should be 8 or less.

    [PS - if you know of people who "have a project" but they are in the primordial soup stage of the project, please forward this mail onto them]

    Comments should be addressed to bosc[at]bubbles.sonsorol.org - like I said, I expect the major projects to assign their own representitive or say they are not interested.

    Ewan Birney
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    ISMB 2001 will be in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 21-25. Website:
    http://ismb01.cbs.dtu.dk

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