Bioperl: Bioperl conference

[David J. States]

Some thoughts on organizing a bioperl workshop at ISMB99.

We will need some indication of the number of people actually planning to 
attend.  The vast over subscription to the bioperl lunch at ISMB 98 meant 
that almost nothing got done.  It might even be appropriate to ask people 
to register in advance with a modest fee take cover food, room, and 
photocopy expenses.  If the ISMB 99 folks are not able or don't want to 
handle this is part of conference registration, we could do it through the 
ISCB site, but I think the first preference would be to work through the 
ISMB conference registration.

A bioperl tutorial and workshop for active developers are two very 
different things.  Both might be of interest, but I think we want to 
concentrate the workshop.  At this point the tutorial scheduled for ISMB 99 
is over subscribed.  Unless we propose moving to a day earlier, there are 
not going to be rooms available at the conference site.

It would be very nice to have a lecture facility with video projection and 
a network link so that speakers could include live demos as part of their 
talks.  I don't know if such facilities are available, does anyone?

The bioperl group is still small enough that I don't think breakout 
sessions make sense.  Instead, the point of the workshop should be an 
opportunity for everyone to learn what everyone else is up to.  More 
nitty-gritty development issues will have to be handled in smaller groups 
and these can meet informally later on.

I am happy to assist with organizing, although I can get pretty busy.

David

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David J. States, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director
Institute for Biomedical Computing
Washington University in St. Louis
700 S. Euclid Ave.
St. Louis, MO   63110

tel: 314 362 2134
fax: 314 362 0234
email: states@ibc.wustl.edu


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