[Open-bio-l] Code fest 2010: thinking to '11

[Steffen Möller]

Hi Raoul,

On 07/13/2010 03:01 PM, Raoul Bonnal wrote:
> Codefest 2010 is finished and I think it has been a great success. 
> I was so happy to do what I like to do more, coding, meeting people (it's better with a beer) and coding again.
> Codefest +1
>   
+1 , the "no question asked" series of presentations at BOSC was kind of
strange. But sure, all questions you would want to ask to BioPerl etc
you would have asked a while ago, not at the conference.
> I'd like to have a BOSC more... like a round table than just presentations which are for sure very useful but not enough in my idea. 
> Bosc +1-
>   
+1  - these doing-something-together meetings are good.
> As requested by many people @ BBQ, I'm just wondering how it could be having a Codefest in Italy, that would be definetely amazing. If you like the idea, in the next months I'll try to figure out how to make it possible. Keep in mind that my working place is in Milan.
> Codefest at Milan +1
>   
The problem is with the funding of the travel, which again would speak
for an increased regionalisation of the efforts and the integration of
others via the net.
A conference nearby does not really help if you don't also have a paper
on it :)
> Then, I realized that is very important to be on the same boat and I'd like to join the OBF in a more active way, how to start ?
>   
Well, we'd need the OBF for an OK to call it BOSC Hackathon, or BOSCF
(for BOSCloudFest). But the meeting we could plan rightaway. I can offer
the same for Luebeck, literally at the beach. Consider a free room
settled, accomodation is about 45 Euros per night. The nearest airports
would be the 50 miles apart Hamburg (Northern Germany) or Luebeck itself
with direct RyanAir flights from around Europe (Bergamo, Pisa, Stansted,
Barcelona, Edinburgh, "Stockholm", Gdansk and probably others).
Actually, Richard and Dominique already plan to come, maybe we could
synchronise things a bit.

Many greetings

Steffen