BOSC 2006

The 7th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC'2006) will take place in Fortaleza, Brazil, as one of several Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings occurring in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology.

Important Dates

Aug 4-5, 2006 BOSC 2006

BOSC Eventful Group : This site provides an ICAL feed which will include all deadlines associated with BOSC 2006

March 15, 2006 - Registration Opens
June 5, 2006 - BOSC Abstracts for Full Talks Due
June 19, 2006 - Notification of Abstracts Acceptance
June 26, 2006 - Early Registration Discount Cut-off date
August 3, 2006 - Conference Registration Opens Onsite
August 4-5, 2006 - BOSC Conference

Keynote Speakers

Amos Bairoch of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Agenda

Notes on Submissions

 * The Open Bioinformatics Foundation is dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source Software development 
 within the Biological Research Community.  To promote this mission, the organizing committee will favor submissions for projects that apply a 
 recognized Open Source License, or adhere to the general Open Source Philosophy.

See the following websites for further details:

  [href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ Recognized Open Source Licenses]
  [href="http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php Definition of the Open Source Philosophy]

Call for Speakers and Abstracts

The BOSC organizing committee is currently seeking abstracts for talks at BOSC 2006. BOSC is a great opportunity for you to tell the community about your use, development, or philosophy of open source software development in bioinformatics. The committee will select several submitted abstracts for 25-minute talks. Accepted abstracts will be published on the BOSC web site.

If you are interested in speaking at BOSC 2006,

please send us before June 5th, 2006:

* an abstract (no more than a few paragraphs)
* a URL for the project page, if applicable
* information about the open source license used for your software or 
  your release plans.

Abstracts will be accepted for submission until June 5th, 2006. Abstracts chosen for presentation will be announced June 19th, 2006 (before the ISMB Early Registration Deadline).

Call for Birds of a Feather Meeting Ideas

One of the more popular activities at BOSC are the Birds-of-a-Feather sub meetings that people organize at the end of each days session. These are free form meetings organized by the attendees themselves. Traditionally, some BOF's have been formed to allow developers and users of individual OBF software to meet each other face-to-face to discuss the project, but other meetings have been formed to discuss completely new ideas. These meetings offer a unique opportunity for individuals to explore more about the activities of the various Open Source Projects, and, in some cases, even take an active role influencing the future of Open Source Software development. If you would like to create a BOF, just sign up for a wiki account, login, and edit the Birds-of-a-Feather page.

Program committee

Chair, Darin London, Duke University