Re: [GUSDEV] GUS @ BOSC?

[Haiming W. <hw...@ug...>]

I think Steve might have given a talk about GUS at BOSC2004.
http://open-bio.org/bosc2004/accepted_abstracts.html#abstracts

-Haiming

Aaron J. Mackey wrote:

> As a BOSC organizer this year, I can almost guarantee that if there 
> was someone who wanted to give a talk on GUS (status, future plans, 
> etc), that the talk would be accepted (has there ever been a GUS talk 
> at BOSC?)  Perhaps a lightning talk even?
>
> -Aaron
>
> Michael Saffitz wrote:
>
>>
>> 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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>>
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