Difference between revisions of "Talk:BOSC 2009"

Revision as of 19:17, 6 October 2008

This page will be used for discussion of BOSC 2009 planning.

Important Dates

• Need date proposal due to ISMB
• Call for abstracts begins
• Abstract deadline
• Review period
• Notification of accepted abstracts
• Deadline for revised papers (for proceedings if we have one)
• Need date program is due to ISMB
• ISMB is June 27 to July 2, presumably BOSC would be the two days before, June 25-26.

Organizing Committee

Co-chairs of Organizing Committee

• Kam D. Dahlquist
• Lonnie R. Welch

Organizing Committee Members

Subcommittees

• Abstract reviewers
• Session chairs
• Publicity
• Proceedings
• Sponsorship

Publicity Ideas

• Update mailing lists
  • Participant lists from previous BOSC conferences
  • O|B|F projects
  • O|B|F members
  • create additional lists
    • bioinformatics programs
• Advertising exchange with PLoS

Session Topics

Logistics

Budget

• Need to get from Steven Leard final budget and attendance numbers for 2008

Conference Management Software

• Used Open Conference Systems in 2008