Minutes:2009 ConfCall

Tentative Agenda

1. Old business
   • Previous minutes
   • Summary of BOSC 2009 (Kam)
2. New business
   • Summary of O|B|F supported projects: projects are active(?), need more support (?), have had releases(?)
     • BioPerl
       • 1.6.1 released Nov 2009, 1.6.0 released in Jan 2009
     • BioJava
     • BioPython
     • BioSQL
     • BioMOBY
     • BioDAS
     • EMBOSS
     • BioRuby?
     • BioLib?
   • Treasurer's 2009 report (ChrisD)
   • OBF Hardware & Sysadmin report (JasonS and ChrisD)
   • Domain names currently registered, upcoming expirations, newly purchased names
     • Proposal to purchase new hardware - 2009 hardware purchase proposal
     • Proposal to purchase box for upstream SPAM filtering
     • System Administration status & coverage report (who, what, issues, future)
       • Consider possibility of moving code mirroring to public (code.google.com; etc)
3. BOSC 2010 - held with ISMB2010 in Boston, MA, USA
4. Hackathons 2010 (Tokyo hackathon in Feb 2010) will involve some OBF projects/developers
5. BoD membership and succession. Need plan to elect new BoD members and rotate officers.
6. Additional topics proposed by community