[Biojava-dev] Hackathon

[Andy Yates]

Okay another one for the ball:

1). Andy Yates
2). Erm well getting it right so I guess that lands me in testing/ 
integration/killing every singleton
3). Cambridge
4). Currently in a Perl group so not a chance really
5). Quite flexible

How does that sound?

On 13 Jul 2009, at 18:14, Richard Holland wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> 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.
>
> To get the ball rolling, here's me:
>
> 1. Richard Holland,  2. Making the whole thing more consistent,
> efficient, and easier to use,  3. Southampton (UK),  4. Possibly but
> probably only within UK/Europe,  5. Only available in mid-Jan 2010,
> otherwise can't do anything until mid-March 2010 onwards.
>
> Looking forward to hearing your comments! Once I have a good idea of
> numbers and distribution, I can get some costs together to give you  
> (and
> any potential sponsors) the best idea of what might be involved.
>
> cheers,
> Richard
>
> -- 
> Richard Holland, BSc MBCS
> Operations and Delivery Director, Eagle Genomics Ltd
> T: +44 (0)1223 654481 ext 3 | E: holland at eaglegenomics.com
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>
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