Re: [GUSDEV] GUS @ BOSC?

[Aaron J. M. <am...@pc...>]

Oh sure, in Scotland!  Lucky devils.

-Aaron

Haiming Wang wrote:

> 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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