Re: [GUSDEV] GUS @ BOSC?

[Ed R. <ero...@ug...>]

Yes, very much so.  Especially with everything that is going
on with the Api Project, and now a postgress version, and the
delayed version 4.0 schema talks.......

This conference is a much better venue for GUS.  

-Ed



---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 16:35:16 -0400
>From: Michael Saffitz <msa...@pc...>  
>Subject: [GUSDEV] GUS @ BOSC?  
>To: Gusdev gusdev-gusdev <gus...@li...>
>
>
>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)
>>>>
>>>>
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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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