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Minutes:2009 ConfCall

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Minutes from the meeting

Tentative Agenda

  1. Old business
  2. New business
    1. BOSC
      • BOSC 2009 (Kam)
        • Money spent/made attendee number, any other feedback
      • BOSC 2010 - held with ISMB2010 in Boston, MA, USA
    2. Treasurer's 2009 report (ChrisD)
    3. BoD membership and succession.
      • Nomination of Nomi Harris for election to the BoD
      • Need plan to elect new BoD members and rotate officers.
    4. 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) mailling lists to googlegroups?
    5. Hackathons 2010 (Tokyo hackathon in Feb 2010) will involve some OBF projects/developers
    6. Additional topics proposed by community

Project reports filed

Any reports that need to be recorded for 2009 can be lined here. Summary of O|B|F supported projects: projects are active(?), need more support (?), have had releases(?)

  • BioPerl
    • 1.6.0 released in Jan 2009, 1.6.1 released Nov 2009
  • BioJava
  • BioPython
    • Biopython 1.50 released Apr 2009, 1.51 released Aug 2009, 1.52 released Sep 2009
  • BioSQL
  • BioMOBY
  • BioDAS
  • EMBOSS
  • BioRuby?
  • BioLib?