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About Us
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation or O|B|F is a non profit, volunteer run organization focused on supporting open source programming in bioinformatics.
The foundation grew out of the volunteer projects BioPerl, BioJava and Biopython and was formally incorporated in order to handle our modest requirements of hardware ownership, domain name management and funding for conferences and workshops.The Foundation does not participate directly in the development or structure of the open source work, but as the members of the foundation are drawn from the member projects, there is clear commonality of direction and purpose. Occasionally the O|B|F directors may make announcements about our direction or purpose (a recent one was on the licensing of academic software) when the board feels there is a need to clarify matters, but in general we prefer to remain simply the administrative support organization for our member projects.
Our main activities are:
- Underwriting and supporting the BOSC conferences
- Organizing and supporting developer-centric "Hackathon" events
- Managing our servers, colocation facilities, bank account & other assets
We are incorporated in the state of Delaware, USA as a not-for-profit company.
- Our bylaws, in the version enacted in 2004.
- We have recently applied to the Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI) fiscal sponsorship organization to become associated project. If accepted, this would end our own incorporation status. As a consequence we have recently proposed a series of changes to the bylaws, which are pending approval from the Board on Sep 11, 2012.
BOSC
The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is held annually in conjunction with ISCB's meeting, ISMB. BOSC 2012 will take place July 13-14, 2012, right before ISMB 2012 in Long Beach, California.
See some of the Past BOSC conferences.
