<div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-part"><em>Having trouble viewing this email or looking for a permalink? <a href="https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/blob/master/newsletters/2019-11.md" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View this newsletter in your browser</a>.</em></p><p class="gmail-part"><em>This email was sent to the email to the <a href="http://mailman.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bosc-announce</a> and <a href="http://mailman.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/open-bio-l/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">open-bio-l</a> lists.</em></p><h1 class="gmail-part" id="gmail-OBF-Newsletter-November-2019">OBF Newsletter November 2019</h1><p class="gmail-part">This newsletter is chock-full of OBF updates. For a TL;DR version: read & comment on our <a href="https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/pull/44" target="_blank" rel="noopener">affiliated project policy</a> and <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/2019/11/15/creating-an-obf-wide-code-of-conduct/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">code of conduct plans</a> by December 1st, join our public board meeting on the <a href="https://github.com/OBF/org/issues/2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">17th of December</a>, and respond to our <a href="https://forms.gle/vcswCggr11SAMJdH9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vision and mission survey</a>.</p><p class="gmail-part">In longer form:</p><h2 class="gmail-part" id="gmail-OBF-News">OBF News</h2><h3 class="gmail-part" id="gmail-Public-board-meeting-and-officer-elections">Public board meeting and officer elections</h3><p class="gmail-part">Several
of our board members’ terms run out this year, so we’ll be holding a
public board meeting on the 17th of December, at 16:00 UTC (11am EST,
8am PST). The meeting will be held remotely, via conference call. As a
public meeting, everyone is welcome to attend. Dial-in information and
agenda will be posted on our blog (and also <a href="https://github.com/OBF/org/issues/2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on Github</a>).</p><h3 class="gmail-part" id="gmail-Community’s-Vision-and-Mission-statements">Community’s Vision and Mission statements</h3><p class="gmail-part">Please participate in our <a href="https://forms.gle/vcswCggr11SAMJdH9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vision and mission survey</a> project.</p><p class="gmail-part">Since
2000, the OBF community has grown organically with volunteers like you,
who support a number of bioinformatics projects all across the globe.
With our current member projects and a growing community, we would like
to update our community’s <strong>vision and mission statement</strong>.</p><p class="gmail-part">We’d
like to learn how well we’re serving the community and what else we
could be doing to help you out. We can’t do this without your feedback,
opinions, and insights. Please share your <a href="https://forms.gle/vcswCggr11SAMJdH9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">response</a> with us by <strong>15 January 2020</strong>.</p><h3 class="gmail-part" id="gmail-Adopting-a-code-of-conduct">Adopting a code of conduct</h3><p class="gmail-part">In
order to promote a healthy, friendly, and diverse community, we would
like to agree upon a code of conduct (CoC) for our online interactions,
face-to-face events, and for our member projects as well as OBF/BOSC
directly. We’ve been thinking of basing ours on the CoC of The
Carpentries - let us know what you think by December 1st, or <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/2019/11/15/creating-an-obf-wide-code-of-conduct/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">read more about our plans on the OBF blog</a>.</p><h3 class="gmail-part" id="gmail-Becoming-an-OBF-Affiliated-Project">Becoming an OBF Affiliated Project</h3><p class="gmail-part">The
OBF hosts multiple member organisations under the Bio* umbrella,
including Biopython, BioPerl, BioJava, BioSQL, BioDAS, and BioRuby. Ever
wondered whether your project might benefit from being under the OBF
umbrella, and how to get there?</p><p class="gmail-part">Thanks
to a big push at the 2019 CoFest in Basel, a years-long effort to
formalize how budding (or well established) open-source projects can
become an OBF affiliated (or “member”) project is now entering final
draft stage. Concurrently with final review by the Board, we are asking
the community to submit comments by November 29.</p><p class="gmail-part">The policy document has from the beginning been developed as a <a href="https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/pull/44" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pull request on the OBF documents repository</a>. Public comments can simply be posted there. If you prefer to submit comments confidentially, please <a href="mailto:board@open-bio.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">email the Board</a>.</p><p class="gmail-part">What’s
next? After final revisions prompted by community comments and Board
review, the final draft will be submitted for a formal vote of approval
to both the Board, <em>and</em> the OBF membership. We aim to accomplish this before the end of this year.</p><h3 class="gmail-part" id="gmail-OBF-Travel-Fellowships">OBF Travel Fellowships</h3><p class="gmail-part">We are accepting <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/2019/11/14/obf-travel-fellowship-december-2019/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">applications for the next round</a>, with a deadline of <strong>1 December 2019</strong>.
We’ve also made a few changes to the fellowship program for 2020 - the
call will be opened twice instead of three times next year, and events
will be eligible if they run in a one year window after each application
deadline. Read <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/2019/11/14/obf-travel-fellowship-schedule/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this post</a> for more details.</p><h3 class="gmail-part" id="gmail-The-OBF-has-a-new-board-member">The OBF has a new board member!</h3><p class="gmail-part">At
the public board meeting at BOSC this year, Malvika Sharan was
unanimously voted to join as a member of the Board of Directors.
Welcome, Malvika! <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/2019/08/17/malvika-sharan-elected-to-obf-board/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more on the OBF blog</a>.</p><h3 class="gmail-part" id="gmail-BOSC-2019-Report">BOSC 2019 Report</h3><p class="gmail-part"><a href="https://www.open-bio.org/2019/08/01/meeting-report-bosc-2019/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BOSC 2019</a> took place in Basel, Switzerland, July 24-25, as part of ISMB/ECCB 2019. The talks were recorded, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmX8XnLr6zeHofbRXbVg0vShC5RwuElj4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most of the videos are live on YouTube</a>. An overview of the meeting was published online in <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/2019/08/01/meeting-report-bosc-2019/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this blog</a>.</p><h3 class="gmail-part" id="gmail-BOSC-2020-will-be-with-Galaxy-again-as-BCC2020">BOSC 2020 will be with Galaxy again as BCC2020!</h3><p class="gmail-part">We
all loved GCCBOSC in 2018, so we’re excited to be back with the Galaxy
community again in 2020. This time, it’s branded as BCC -
Bioinformatics Community Conference - it’ll be in Toronto. <a href="https://bcc2020.github.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Visit the BCC (mostly placeholder) site</a>.</p><h3 class="gmail-part" id="gmail-Google-Summer-of-Code">Google Summer of Code</h3><p class="gmail-part">“Flip
bits not burgers” - Google Summer of Code (GSoC) pays students to work
on open source projects between May and August. Under the umbrella of
the OBF, students from around the world worked on BioD, Sambamba, BioJS,
antiSMASH, and the Journal of Open Data Publications. <a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5857327278718976/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more about all of the projects and view the code on the Google Summer of Code site</a>.</p><h2 class="gmail-part" id="gmail-Community-updates">Community updates</h2><h3 class="gmail-part" id="gmail-Supercharge-your-open-projects">Supercharge your open projects</h3><p class="gmail-part">Interested
in learning how to run a life science project openly, or know someone
who does? Two mentoring programs (one tech platforms focused, one
academia focused) are <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/2019/11/12/supercharge-your-open-project-with-leadership-training/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accepting applications until December 8th</a>.</p><h2 class="gmail-part" id="gmail-Interesting-links">Interesting links</h2><ul class="gmail-part"><li class="gmail-">Do you know someone in academia who struggled with their mental health, and needed support? <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/eLifeMHsurvey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spend a few minutes sharing your experiences in supporting them</a>. The survey is run by eLife and closes November 24.</li><li class="gmail-">The ISCB now has a <a href="https://www.iscb.org/the-iscb-student-software-prize" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prize for student software</a>
- aimed at student ISCB members who create excellent bioinformatics
software. The prize will be awarded annually and the first round of
results will be announced soon.</li><li class="gmail-"><a href="http://citeas.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cite.as</a>
is a web-based tool to make it easy to figure out how to cite anything,
whether it’s preprint, a GitHub repo, a paper, or something else.</li></ul><h3 class="gmail-part" id="gmail-Your-content-needed-for-the-next-issue">Your content needed for the next issue!</h3><p class="gmail-part">Tell
us about the things that catch your attention in the open source
bioinformatics world! If you have an exciting project update, request
for feedback, or interesting link, <a href="https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/issues/11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">feel free to share it with us on GitHub</a>, or contact Yo Yehudi (<a href="https://twitter.com/yoyehudi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter: @yoyehudi</a>, <a href="mailto:yochannah@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Email: yochannah@gmail.com</a>)
if you’re not sure whether or not your content is suitable for our
newsletter - we’re looking for content that’s primarily open source /
science related.</p></div>