[MOBY-l] [Fwd: an application for MOBY developers to consider]

[Gary Schiltz]

Bill Beavis of NCGR asked that I pass this along to the list. Since I 
seem to remember the Listsrv software sometimes not liking attachments, 
I have put the attachments from Bill's email at 
www.semanticmoby.org/meeting/vpn instead of leaving them attached. The 
white paper Bill refers to is the file An_app_for_MOBY.pdf

// Gary

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: an application for MOBY developers to consider
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:55:23 -0700
From: Bill Beavis <wdb at ncgr.org>

Greetings from Santa Fe,

As many of you are aware, we'd like to visit about an application for 
the BioMOBY projects during our meeting this weekend.  Because many of 
us work with Plant Information Resources we'd like to discuss the 
potential of using BioMOBY for development of a Virtual Plant Network 
(we may have to name it something else so that the acronym is not 
confused with another VPN).

After visiting with the cognizant program officers, Stinger Guala and 
Manfred Zorn, I believe that we would have a reasonably good chance of 
obtaining support from the NSF-BDI for such a proposal.  In order to 
stimulate discussion of the idea, please find attached a white paper 
utlining the concept and specific aims that might be included in such a 
proposal.  Note that yellow highlights indicate areas that need 
clarification.  Also, please find attached a couple of references that 
are germane to the discussion.

For those of you who have been interested in utilizing MOBY for the 
CGIAR - Grand Challenge Program, there is a mechanism to obtain 
supplemental funding in this proposal for development of international 
collaborations.  Thus, for those of you from non-US institutions, 
participation in this proposal could bring in some funding to support 
your efforts to utilize MOBY.

For those of you who are not able to attend the MOBY meeting, you can 
join the discussion, which will begin at 1:00 pm MST,  through a 
teleconference. Instructions for joining us:

     Date       : Saturday, Nov. 20, 2004
     Time       : 1 pm Mountain Standard Time
     Discussion : Integrating Semantic MOBY and MOBY Services in a real
                  world, distributed application: The Virtual Plant
                  Network.

     Instructions to join:

     1 - Dial the toll-free On-Demand Plus Number: 1-888-387-8686
         (For international users, dial the international dial-out
         plus the country code (1) followed by 303-928-3281)
     2 - Enter the Room number: 4139056, and press #
     3 - You will be placed directly into the meeting if the moderator
         has already joined. If the moderator hasn't joined, you will
         be placed on hold for up to 10 minutes.

Best regards,
Bill Beavis