[Biojava-dev] Hackathon

[Michael Heuer]

Richard Holland wrote:

> Andreas and I would like to organise a hackathon to get the
> modularisation and general improvement plans for BJ3 into action, and
> bring the project forward into the 21st century (only 10 years late!).
>
> At this time I'm trying to gather interest and gauge who might
> realistically be able to attend. We will attempt to site the hackathon
> at a location closest to the majority of attendees.
>
> To help me plan numbers and likely costs (for potential sponsors) could
> all those who are interested please answer the following questions for
> me:
>
>  1. Name,
>  2. Specialist interest within Biojava (e.g. proteomics, microarrays,
> sequencing, etc.),
>  3. Your physical location (country and and nearest major city - e.g.
> Cambridge, London, Newcastle, San Diego, Singapore, etc.),
>  4. Whether you think your employer would help pay your airfare and/or 1
> week in a hotel to attend (and how far you think you could go on such
> funding),
>  5. Approximate availability for the next 12 months.


A hackathon would be great.

I'm closest to MSP airport.  My employer would probably not cover air fare
or hotel.  I would then recommend choosing an interesting location so
that it would be worth spending out-of-pocket to get there.

I don't use biojava for my day job any more, so I'm most interested in
helping with architecture and build issues.  My day job is currently a lot
of data viz, maybe better integration with viz tools like Cytoscape,
Piccolo2D, prefuse, and Processing would be fun to work on.

   michael