[Open-bio-l] Codefest 2010: Final details

[Heikki Lehvaslaiho]

Chris,

I do not have too much experience on cloud computing, either. There
will be quite a few people from BioPerl . We'll meet and  come up with
a plan first thing in the morning. Unless someone has a very good one
ready for sharing...

     -Heikki

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On 3 July 2010 08:36, Christopher Bottoms <maizemu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was originally planning on working on cloud computing at the Codefest.
> However, the 2-day cloud computing tutorial that I was going to attend in
> mid June was canceled. Does anyone have any programming that they would like
> help with? I have experience with Perl 5, including Moose, and I am starting
> to dabble in Perl 6. I have also programmed in Java in the past. I hear
> Python is easy to learn, so I'd be open to working on a Python project as
> well.
>
> Thanks,
> Christopher Bottoms
>
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Brad Chapman <chapmanb at 50mail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all;
>> Codefest 2010 is finally here: next Wednesday and Thursday at
>> Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in
>> beautiful Boston. All of the logistics, directions and details
>> are on the wiki page:
>>
>> http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Codefest_2010
>>
>> If you want the short version: show up at Harvard Medical School on
>> Wednesday at 10am and we'll take care of the rest. Thanks to the
>> hard work of Oliver, Kimberly, Leah, Toshiaki, and Mitsuteru we'll
>> have coffee, lunches and internet. Thanks to Steffen and Ntino,
>> we'll have Amazon credits to utilize. And of course, there will be
>> BBQ and drinking on Thursday night when we are finished.
>>
>> I'm looking forward to a fun and productive time. The general plan
>> will be to spend a bit of time on Wednesday morning organizing
>> ourselves into like minded groups of folks, and then commence with
>> coding and collaborating.
>>
>> If you aren't able to make it and you're listed on the wiki page under
>> participants, please do cross your name off so we have a good idea of
>> final numbers. Likewise, if you are coming but haven't put your name up
>> there please add it.
>>
>> If you are interested in helping with making software and data
>> available on shared cloud resources, here are the latest Amazon
>> AMIs, snapshots, and the code base:
>>
>> Cloud BioLinux images:
>> 64bit: ami-d62cc4bf
>> 32bit: ami-5423cb3d
>>
>> An EBS public snapshot with indexed genomes:
>> snap-67446d0f
>>
>> Infrastructure:
>> http://github.com/chapmanb/bcbb/tree/master/ec2/biolinux/
>>
>> Send an e-mail with any questions, thoughts or concerns. My phone
>> number is 617-447-8586 in case you end up hopelessly lost somewhere
>> in Boston and are desperate to begin programming.
>>
>> Looking forward to seeing everyone next Wednesday,
>> Brad
>
>