[Bosc-announce] DEADLINE EXTENDED: GCCBOSC abstracts now due Monday, March 19 (end of the day)

[Nomi Harris]

Good news for those who need more time to finish their GCCBOSC abstracts! The deadline for submitting talk abstracts has been extended to Monday, May 19 (end of the day). 
(Of course, if you’re ready to submit your abstract now, please go ahead! We already have a good crop of early abstracts and would love to get more!)

https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission has abstract guidelines and a link for submitting your abstract.

—The BOSC Organizing Committee


> On Mar 14, 2018, at 10:24 PM, Nomi Harris <nlharris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> GCCBOSC 2018: A Bioinformatics Community Conference
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> Call for Abstracts
>  GCCBOSC 2018 Dates: June 25-30, 2018
>  Location: Reed College, Portland, OR
>  GCCBOSC website: https://gccbosc2018.sched.com/ <https://gccbosc2018.sched.com/>
>  BOSC website: https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2018 <https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2018>
>  Email BOSC organizers: b <mailto:bosc at open-bio.org>osc at open-bio.org <mailto:osc at open-bio.org>
>  BOSC announcements mailing list: http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce <http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce>
>  Twitter: @OBF_BOSC <https://twitter.com/OBF_BOSC>, #GCCBOSC
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> 
> Important Dates
> Abstract submission <https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission> deadline: March 16, 2018 (by 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time)
> Authors notified: April 10, 2018
> Travel fellowship <https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/blob/master/Travel_fellowships.md> application deadline: April 15, 2018
> Early registration for GCCBOSC <https://gccbosc2018.sched.com/> ends: May 11, 2018
> GCCBOSC Training <https://galaxyproject.org/events/gccbosc2018/training/>: June 25-26, 2018
> GCCBOSC Talks <https://gccbosc2018.sched.com/>: June 27-28
> GCCBOSC CollaborationFest <https://galaxyproject.org/events/gccbosc2018/collaboration/>: June 29-30
> Since 2000, BOSC has provided a forum for developers and users to interact and share research results and ideas in open source bioinformatics and open science. This year, BOSC is partnering with the Galaxy Community Conference.
> GCCBOSC 2018 will include two days of talks (including some joint GCC/BOSC sessions), three keynote speakers <https://galaxyproject.org/events/gccbosc2018/keynotes/> (see below), a panel discussion, posters, demos, Birds of a Feather, and more. The two days of talks will be preceded by two days of training, and will be followed by a two-day CollaborationFest <https://galaxyproject.org/events/gccbosc2018/collaboration/>.
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> Abstract submission
> We encourage you to submit one-page abstracts to BOSC (due March 16) on any topic relevant to open source bioinformatics or open science. After review, some abstracts will be selected for lightning talks, longer talks, demos and/or posters. Abstract submission instructions and a link to the EasyChair submission portal can be found on https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission <https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission>
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> BOSC session topics include (but are not limited to):
> Open Science and Reproducible Research
> Open Biomedical Data
> Citizen/Participatory Science
> Standards and Interoperability
> Data Science
> Workflows
> Visualization
> Medical and Translational Bioinformatics
> Developer Tools and Libraries
> Bioinformatics Open Source Project Progress Reports
> We look forward to receiving your abstract and meeting you at GCCBOSC 2018!
> 
> Sincerely,
>       BOSC 2018 Organizing Committee: Nomi Harris (chair), Heather Wiencko (co-chair), Brad Chapman (co-chair), Peter Cock, Christopher Fields, Bastian Greshake, Karsten Hokamp, Hilmar Lapp, Monica Munoz-Torres
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> P.S. Don't forget to submit your BOSC abstract by March 16 at https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission <https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission>! Please share this announcement with your colleagues!
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