[Bioperl-l] distant thoughts from a dinosaur...

[Hilmar Lapp]

There is a GMOD mtg scheduled for Sep 15-16 in Berkeley. I thought that
might be a good idea for that seed group of people to meet up and start
thrashing out a bioperl2 model, since some (many?) of us may be going
there anyway.

And/or wouldn't this be a very good target for a sponsored hackathon,
since 1) there'd be a clearly defined goal, which 2) could be achieved
much better and much more efficient once the participating people are
locked into a room for some time.

Ahem, no, I'm not going to suggest a sponsor ...

I believe MAGE-stk has had fairly good success with their hackathons
which I believe were self-sponsored by the participants except that the
hosting institution (which changed from one to another hackathon) would
provide facilities and network. This of course only works if everybody
travels domestic within the US and there is reasonably priced
accommodation available. For bioperl2, the group of people would be
small.

Any opinions Chris/Lincoln/Nat/Chris, or anybody else?

	-hilmar