[MOBY-dev] BioMOBY developers meeting pre-announcement

[Twigger Simon]

Hi Mark,

Sign me up, the 7/8th of May look good and Im willing to go to a blow 
out meeting or a normal one. :) We are working on some java axis 
libraries to make Java services easier to create. We have prototype 
code in place at the moment but have just brought on board a java guru 
so Im having him look things over and give his blessing before we 
inflict them on the world. If we have an agenda for the potential 
implementers meeting I'd like to see if I can interest a few more 
people. We see a lot of promise in web services in general and MOBY in 
particular and Im hoping I can get some more of our teams to buy in, 
particularly when they see that their data can be made available via 
Taverna, etc. for free. Any guesstimates of the costs when you have 
some idea would be welcome so I can see who I can afford to bring 
along.

There is an increasing interest in developing ontologies, addressing 
datasharing, etc. in the cardiovascular arena here in the US and I 
would also be interested in chatting with you some more about your 
plans for CardioSHARE and how we might align our work at MCW to achieve 
this common goal.

Cheers,

	Simon.


On Feb 9, 2005, at 1:54 PM, Mark Wilkinson wrote:

> Hi MOBYers!
>
> It's getting to that time again - time for the next (but hopefully not
> last... touch wood!) BioMOBY developers meeting!
>
> Due to overwhelming requests I am happy to host it here in Vancouver
> again.  Alternately, and at higher cost, we could host it in a more
> exotic location such as the spectacular Whistler Ski Resort (site of 
> the
> 2010 winter olympics - about 1.5 hours north of Vancouver).
>
> The dates are pretty limited.  It appears that the first weekend of May
> (7th and 8th) is clear of other conferences that people might want to
> attend.
>
> Keeping with tradition, I will be using my Genome Canada grant to pay
> for as much of the local expenses as I can afford, so hopefully the
> charge to each of you will be primarily for travel, with only a little
> bit to cover room and board.
>
> So... a few questions:
>
> 1)  Are the dates (May 7-8) going to work for the majority of you core
> developers?
>
> 2)  Do you want to meet in Vancouver, or should we make our potentially
> last meeting a "big blow-out" and have it somewhere more exotic?  (yes,
> Rebecca, we can play hackeysac in either location ;-) )
>
> 3)  *** Can people please contact me ASAP indicating their interest in
> attending so that I can ballpark the expenses and work out how much I
> can afford to supplement from my grant ***
>
> 4)  Is there now sufficient interest in MOBY that it is worth having
> back-to-back developers and implementers meetings?  If you are not a
> "core developer", but would be interested in attending a one-day
> hands-on meeting with people who have experience in building MOBY
> Services please let me know.  If there is sufficient interest I'll see
> if I can arrange something like this.
>
>
> Looking forward to seeing you all again soon!
>
> Mark
>
>
> -- 
> Mark Wilkinson
> Assistant Professor (Bioinformatics)
> Dept. Medical Genetics, UBC, Canada
>
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