[Biojava-l] Bootcamp

[chris dagdigian]

Jason S. has been taking the lead on behalf of the Open-Bio.org  'meta' 
organization recently on trying to compute the logistics needed to get a 
group of us together in one place. Most of the difficulty is finding a 
place where we can minimize travel, hotel and conference facility 
costs...we were planning on trying to pay for as much as we could of the 
travel/hotel costs of some of our core developers as a way of making their 
life easier and expressing our gratitude.

If there is a significant interest in a biojava-only bootcamp than I would 
think that having the meeting at the Sanger Center is an excellent idea as 
it seems that several of the biojava core people are already very close by 
in geographical terms.

Matthew- if you can make this event happen I'll happily volunteer to 
assist. I have lots of experience doing the boring administrative and 
financial stuff from our last two events (Bioperl Workshop & BOSC'2000).

This may also be a good way to gauge any interest out there from potential 
corporate donors or sponsors who may want to contribute towards an event 
that will really improve the biojava codebase. For a companies that may be 
using biojava code internally there is no better way to make the project 
better than helping to get the main contributors together for some marathon 
coding & documentation sessions.


-Chris






At 11:55 AM 12/11/00 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi.
>
>Following the talk I gave on Friday, there seems to be some interest
>from industry in a BioJava tutorial/boot-camp. I got the vibe from the
>list that people here are keen. Would you like me to try to organize
>something half-way between now and ISMB? The plan would be to spend the
>1st half writing silly programs (reverse complement this sequence, fetch
>that from a DB, align these two proteins) and getting hapy with the
>APIs. The second half would be a full-on beer/piza/laptop orgy of
>coding, documentation and design.
>
>I am the worlds worst organizer, but I am willing to make sure that this
>happens if people are keen. Any takers?
>
>Matthew
>
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