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This page is being used for planning purposes. For official information, please see the BOSC 2010 Main Page.

Important Dates

NOTE: Dates in BOLD are determined by ISMB. Dates in italics are "penciled" in for planning purposes.

• December 1, 2009: BOSC Special Interest Group Letter of Intent submitted to the ISMB SIG committee.
• December 18, 2009: SIG Acceptance Notification
• January 18, 2010: Instance of OCS set up and tested; Call for Abstracts opens
• March 9, 2010: ISMB and BOSC registration opens
• March 12, 2010: SIG Preliminary Program Due
• April 15, 2010: Abstract deadline
• April 15-30, 2010: Review period
• April 23, 2010: SIG Program (preliminary) Available on Web
• April 30-May 4: Resolution of conflicting reviews, decisions made
• May 5, 2010: Notification of accepted abstracts
• May 21, 2010: SIG Complete Program on Web
• May 28, 2010: Early Registration Discount Cut-off Date
• June 25, 2010: Handout Materials Due
• July 9-10, 2010: BOSC 2010!

Sessions

• Bio* Updates: updates from O|B|F-sponsored projects
• Open Source Software: any open source bioinformatics software that does not fall into a regular session category
• Lightning Talks: short, 5 minute talks that highlight very recent developments

Please make suggestions for special topic sessions for BOSC 2010 here:

Keynote Speakers

Please make suggestions for keynote speakers for BOSC 2010 here, or e-mail the organizing committee at bosc@open-bio.org

Brainstorming Ideas

From the e-mail sent to the O|B|F Membership on 12/18/09:

The BOSC organizing committee is soliciting your input on the planning of BOSC 2010 so that we can make it a successful and productive conference for the O|B|F community. You may respond with your suggestions by editing this page or by sending an e-mail to bosc@open-bio.org. Please respond to any or all of the questions below:

Types of Sessions

For the last several years BOSC has consisted mainly of one or two keynote presentations, other talks chosen from among the submitted abstracts organized into sessions by topic, updates from the Bio* projects, Lightning Talks, and informal Birds of a Feather sessions. Would you rather see BOSC continue in this fashion, or would you support changing the format to one or all of the following:

Tutorials

Would you like to have tutorials where there were in depth demonstrations and code tutorials. This could be lead off by the OBF projects instead of the traditional update talks, but could feature any open source projects interested. These would be hands on sessions with real code examples, with a focus on teaching people how to leverage various code bases to make real life work easier. Would you be willing to organize/lead such a session for your project?

Discussions

Would you like to have discussions following the hands on tutorials, these would be interactive sessions focused around dealing with unsolved issues. The "speaker" would be responsible for setting up a set of discussion topics around an issue of interest, and then facilitating ideas and opinions from the attendees. The goals would be to talk through problems and gather a consensus about options for solving them. Would you be willing to organize/lead such a session for your project?

Mini-hackathon

Would you like to have a mini-hackathon either before, during, or after the 2-day BOSC. The subject of the hackathon would need to be organized by the individual project leaders/teams. Some suggestions would be adding/extending support for next-gen sequencing; organizing bugs/tasks so that new beginners can start contributing to the project easily and working on some of those bugs/tasks; organizing some type of contest like the Genome Annotation Assessment Project (GASP) where solutions from different projects compete on arriving at some type of goal. Would you be willing to organize/lead this type of session?

LiveCD

Would you like to organize/create a LiveCD or Debian download of Bio* projects with documentation to support outreach to the larger bioinformatics community. Would you be willing to organize/lead this type of session?

Session Topics

What session topics would you like to see represented for traditional talks?

Keynote Speakers

Who would you like to hear as a keynote speaker?

Proceedings

The BOSC 2010 organizing committee is in discussion with an open access journal to publish a formal Proceedings for BOSC. If you are planning on submitting an abstract for BOSC 2010, are you interested in submitting a more formal paper to the BOSC proceedings, given that as the author you would need to pay the page charges that could run between US$500-1000? We are likely to move ahead with plans to have a proceedings, but it would be helpful to know how many submissions to expect.

Call for Volunteers

Organizing tutorial/hackathons and such will only be possible if individuals step forward to lead these sessions. Please let us know if you would be willing to serve in any capacity. We also need volunteers to review abstracts for the more "traditional" sessions, please let us know if you are willing to do this as well.

Timeline for Input