[GUSDEV] GUS @ Bioinformatics Hackathon?

[Michael S. <msa...@pc...>]

There's been some talk on various Bioinformatic mailing lists of a 
"hackathon" coinciding with Apple's WWDC this June (see below).

Are any GUS users out there thinking about attending either the hackathon 
or the WWDC, and if so, is there any interest in forming a GUS contingent?

Possible topics and areas of development could include plugin work, support 
for integrating other databases (i.e. tools to load data from chado 
databases), object layer development/improvements, ???? ideas ?

--Mike

>> From: Suzanna Lewis <su...@fr...>
>> Date: April 20, 2005 6:42:29 PM EDT
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>> Cc: George Hartzell <har...@ke...>, Cyrus Harmon
>> <cy...@cy...>, Steve Chervitz
>> <Ste...@af...>
>> Subject: Hackathon 2005
>>
>> (sorry for multiple postings, but please do forward to
>> anyone else who you think might be interested)
>>
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>>
>> Dear everyone,
>>
>> It has been a long time and we Bioinformatics devotees are overdue for
>> another total-immersion coding-fest (the last hackathon was held in
>> Singapore February 2003, more than two years ago).  Apple has offered
>> to host us this year, and as an added bonus include free admission to
>> the World-Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco the prior week.
>> They are also looking for some people to present interesting new
>> developments at the WWDC, so if you have something noteworthy please
>> let us know. Apple is not attaching any strings, so our work need not
>> address Apple-specific software or hardware areas. Apple will provide
>> space and hardware (and access to their engineers if we'd like).
>>
>> Week 1 (June 6-10) would be spent at the WWDC. Week 2 (June 12-16)
>> would be in Cupertino, at Apple's headquarters.  We're free to focus
>> on what interests us, our tentative plans include:
>>
>>   1. Bio-ontologies software
>>   2. High-performance computing (e.g. large scale computations,
>> optimization)
>>   3. Image analysis
>>   4. Documentation
>>   5. Anything else that may interest you
>>
>> Our plan is to organize this much as the Aspen Center for Physics
>> computational biology workshops were organized (for those old enough
>> to
>> remember): A couple of presentations to start the day; collaboration
>> and coding afterwards; time for a bit of fun (does anyone else
>> cycle?), and discussions in the late afternoons and evenings.
>>
>> Would everyone who is interested in attending please send us a short
>> description of what you would like to do, and perhaps other people who
>> you would like to work with. There is somewhat limited space, so we
>> will try to prioritize groups that have a clear focus and a need to
>> interact. We now this is very short notice, but we hope that there
>> will be enough interest to make it possible.
>>
>> We are looking into additional funding support, to pay for travel
>> expenses, but this is still to be decided.
>>
>> Looking forward to hearing from everyone.
>> George, Cyrus, Steve, and Suzanna (the Bay Area locals)
>>
>>
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