[GUSDEV] GUS @ BOSC?

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

Since there wasn't any interest in a GUS meetup at the Bioinformatics  
Hackathon, we'd thought we'd see if there was greater interest for a  
GUS meeting/hackathon/get together in conjunction with BOSC/ISMB:

http://open-bio.org/bosc2005/

Anyone out there interested in GUS User group meetings?

--Mike


On Apr 22, 2005, at 6:36 PM, Michael Saffitz wrote:

>
> 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
>>> To: da...@bi..., bak...@bi...,
>>> bio...@bi..., "go-...@ge..."
>>> <go-...@ge...>, go-...@fr...,
>>> mge...@li...,
>>> gmo...@li..., bio...@op...,
>>> bio...@bi..., em...@em...
>>> 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)
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>> --
>>> ---
>>> ----------
>>>
>>> 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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