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

[Lincoln Stein]

An excellent idea.  I don't think that we can extend the GMOD meeting by a day 
because people have already mostly made their reservations, but we have time 
during the breakout groups to meet and plan a bioperl 2 designathon.

Lincoln

On Wednesday 23 July 2003 11:27 pm, Hilmar Lapp wrote:
> 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

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Lincoln D. Stein                           Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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