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* July 7, 2010 -- Harvard School of Public Health [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&source=hp&q=655+Huntington+Avenue,+Boston,+MA&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=655+Huntington+Ave,+Boston,+MA+02115&gl=us&ei=vepeS6rVAsSztgeV-7z9Cw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CAkQ8gEwAA 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA] | * July 7, 2010 -- Harvard School of Public Health [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&source=hp&q=655+Huntington+Avenue,+Boston,+MA&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=655+Huntington+Ave,+Boston,+MA+02115&gl=us&ei=vepeS6rVAsSztgeV-7z9Cw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CAkQ8gEwAA 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA] | ||
| − | * July 8, 2010 -- Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Simches Research Building, [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&source=hp&q=185+Cambridge+St,+Boston,+Suffolk,+Massachusetts+02114&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=185+Cambridge+St,+Boston,+MA+02114&gl=us&ei=qeteS_eUGoy1tgeDyKjwCw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CAsQ8gEwAA 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA] | + | * July 8, 2010 -- Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Simches Research Building, Room 3130 [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&source=hp&q=185+Cambridge+St,+Boston,+Suffolk,+Massachusetts+02114&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=185+Cambridge+St,+Boston,+MA+02114&gl=us&ei=qeteS_eUGoy1tgeDyKjwCw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CAsQ8gEwAA 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA] |
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Revision as of 13:33, 26 January 2010
OpenBio Codefest 2010 will take place July 7th and 8th, 2010 in conjunction with BOSC 2010. This is an opportunity for OpenBio developers from projects like BioPerl, BioJava, Biopython, BioRuby, and EMBOSS to work collaboratively on improving Open Source Bioinformatics code.
Goals
OpenBio projects are typically coordinated remotely, with users from all over the world contributing and organizing themselves through mailing lists and IRC chats. Additionally, contributors work on these projects in their spare time, coordinating improving the projects with their day jobs and life outside of the computer. The objective of the Codefest is to give these talented developers a chance to be fully focused on the projects for a few days, interacting in real time. Previous Hackathons have been immensely successful at producing new high quality code and innovative developments.
The general aim of the Codefest is improving the accessibility, functionality and interoperability of the existing libraries. The specific goals are determined based on the interests of attending members and inputs of sponsors. Some current areas of topic discussion are:
- Improving the presence of OpenBio libraries on distributed computing environments like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Eucalyptus. Ntino has written up an excellent project proposal available for download in pdf format.
Location
- July 7, 2010 -- Harvard School of Public Health 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
- July 8, 2010 -- Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Simches Research Building, Room 3130 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA
Sponsorship
Space and internet for the Codefest are kindly provided by the Harvard School of Public Health and Massachusetts General Hospital. We are actively seeking sponsors to help supplement the travel, lodging and meal costs for developers. If you're interested in contributing to Open Source development in Bioinformatics and helping to direct the focus on the Codefest, please contact Brad.
Attendees
Feel free to add yourself if you are interested. We are happy to have you.
Discussion
We welcome any thoughts from interested participants. Please direct discussion to the BOSC mailing list: bosc@open-bio.org.
