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OBF News
- O|B|F is applying to participate in the 2009 Google Summer of Code as an umbrella organization for the Bio* projects.
- An agenda for the Conference call for the 2008 Board of Director's meeting is available. Our board meetings are public and open, please see the page for information about getting a phone number call in access for the Nov 19, 2008 meeting.
About Us
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation or O|B|F is a non profit, volunteer run organization focused on supporting open source programming in bioinformatics.
The foundation grew out of the volunteer projects BioPerl, BioJava and BioPython and was formally incorporated in order to handle our modest requirements of hardware ownership, domain name management and funding for conferences and workshops.The Foundation does not participate directly in the development or structure of the open source work, but as the members of the foundation are drawn from the member projects, there is clear commonality of direction and purpose. Occasionally the O|B|F directors may make announcements about our direction or purpose (a recent one was on the licensing of academic software) when the board feels there is a need to clarify matters, but in general we prefer to remain simply the administrative support organization for our member projects.
Our main activities are:
- Underwriting and supporting the BOSC conferences
- Organizing and supporting developer-centric "hackathon" events
- Managing our servers, colocation facilities, bank account & other assets
We are incorporated in the state of Delaware, USA as a not-for-profit company.
BOSC
Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is held annually in conjunction with ISCB's meeting ISMB. BOSC 2010 will be held in conjunction with ISMB 2010 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
See some of the Past BOSC conferences.
