[Open-bio-l] OBF Newsletter July/August/September 2022

Mon Sep 26 13:31:02 EDT 2022

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Newsletter July/August/September 2022

BOSC 2022 was amazing; BOSC 2023 will be part of ISMB/ECCB in Lyon, France
+ online. Our next event fellowship application deadline is Oct 1. The
Nextflow community is having a get-together, and Terra.bio invites
educators to use the cloud to teach genomics.

In longer form:
<https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/blob/master/newsletters/2022-07.md#obf-news>OBF
News
<https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/blob/master/newsletters/2022-07.md#bosc-news>BOSC
News

BOSC 2022 <http://open-bio.org/events/bosc/bosc-2022/> took place in July
as a Community of Special Interest (COSI) of ISMB 2022
<https://www.iscb.org/ismb2022>, which was held as a hybrid event,
in-person in Madison, WI (USA) and online. Over the two days of the BOSC
COSI, approximately 200 people participated in BOSC sessions
<https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2022/bosc-2022-schedule/>, which
included 28 talks chosen from submitted abstracts, 46 posters, and a panel
discussion, “Building and Sustaining Inclusive Open Science Communities”
<https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2022/bosc-2022-panel/>. BOSC 2022
included joint keynotes
<https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2022/bosc-2022-keynotes/> with two
other COSIs. Jason Williams gave a BOSC / Education COSI keynote entitled
"Riding the bicycle: Including all scientists on a path to excellence". A
joint session with Bio-Ontologies featured a keynote by Melissa Haendel,
“The open data highway: turbo-boosting translational traffic with
ontologies.”

A report about BOSC 2022 <https://f1000research.com/articles/11-1034> has
been published as part of the BOSC collection on F1000
<https://f1000research.com/collections/bosc>. All BOSC presenters are
encouraged to submit their presentation slides and/or posters to the
collection by September 30, 2022.

You can find personal accounts of BOSC 2022 on the OBF blog:

   - Festus Nyasimi, a co-founder and lead of the Bioinformatics Hub of
   Kenya Initiative (BHKi), shares the story of his journey to the
   ISMB/BOSC 2022 conference on an OBF Event Fellowship
   <https://www.open-bio.org/2022/08/01/obf-event-fellow2022-fnyasimi/> (see
   next section for info about Event Fellowships).
   - Geraldine Van der Auwera collected impressions and takeaways from
   multiple BOSC participants in a blog that will make you wish you were at
   BOSC 2022 last month and plan to be at BOSC 2023 next year
   <https://www.open-bio.org/2022/08/16/crowdsourced-highlights-from-bosc-2022/>
   .

BOSC 2023 will take place in July as a COSI of ISMB/ECCB 2023
<https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2023> as a hybrid event; in-person in Lyon
(France), and online.
<https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/blob/master/newsletters/2022-07.md#obf-event-fellowships-formerly-travel-fellowships>OBF
Event Fellowships (formerly "Travel Fellowships")

Last round: April 1, 2022
Next round: October 1, 2022

Our call for applications is open again
<https://www.open-bio.org/2022/08/12/obf-event-fellowship-2022-round2/>,
with a deadline on October 1st. We invite applications for financial
support to attend or host events taking place between November 1, 2022 and
November 1, 2023.

As described on the website <https://www.open-bio.org/event-awards/>, the
fellowship can be used to cover registration fees for relevant events
related to open source bioinformatics or open science (in-person or
virtual), and potentially additional expenses such as childcare for the
duration of the event, small hardware (e.g. a headset or webcam), or
high-speed internet.

Read more about applying for an OBF Event Fellowship
<https://www.open-bio.org/event-awards/#fellowships-applications>, and the
experiences of past awardees
<https://www.open-bio.org/category/travel-fellowship/event-fellowship/>.
<https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/blob/master/newsletters/2022-07.md#google-summer-of-code>Google
Summer of Code

The OBF acts as an umbrella host organization for open source organizations
who wish to work with a student for the four months of Google Summer of
Code. This year, we're pleased to have six students on board, working on a
range of projects. Learn more about the students, their projects and their
OBF mentors on the Google Summer of Code
<https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2022/organizations/open-bioinformatics-foundation-obf>
 site.
<https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/blob/master/newsletters/2022-07.md#community-updates>Community
updates
<https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/blob/master/newsletters/2022-07.md#nextflow-community-events-in-october>Nextflow
community events in October

   - Oct 3-5: There will be 3x free online training events
   <https://nf-co.re/events/2022/training-october-2022> in parallel across
   all time zones.
   - Oct 10-12: The nf-core hackathon
   <https://nf-co.re/events/2022/hackathon-october-2022> will be held in
   Barcelona + online.
   - Oct 12-14: The Nextflow Summit 2022 <https://summit.nextflow.io/> will
   also be held in Barcelona + online! Join to learn about the latest
   developments and innovations from the Nextflow world. Registration and
   poster abstracts still open; travel bursaries are available.

<https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/blob/master/newsletters/2022-07.md#genomics-in-the-classroom>Genomics
in the classroom

Do you teach genomics or a related discipline in a classroom setting, and
want to run hands-on exercises without sweating the IT stuff? The Terra blog
<https://terra.bio/blog/> recently featured an ASHG webinar on using cloud
resources for teaching genomics
<https://terra.bio/anvil-in-the-classroom-cloud-scale-educational-resources-for-modern-genomics/>,
which provided an overview of useful resources and a live demonstration.
The recording is available on-demand from ASHG
<https://learning.ashg.org/products/anvil-in-the-classroom-cloud-scale-educational-resources-for-modern-genomics#tab-product_tab_contents__1>
(free
registration required).
<https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/blob/master/newsletters/2022-07.md#your-content-needed-for-the-next-issue>Your
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