Revision as of 15:46, 4 December 2009

Minutes from the meeting

Tentative Agenda

1. Old business
• Previous minutes Minutes:2008 BOSC Meeting
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. BoD membership and succession. Need plan to elect new BoD members and rotate officers.
3. Treasurer's 2009 report (ChrisD)
• (Chris will link report) Minutes:2009 Financial report
4. OBF Hardware & Sysadmin report (JasonS and ChrisD)
5. • 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?
6. Hackathons 2010 (Tokyo hackathon in Feb 2010) will involve some OBF projects/developers
7. 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?