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===About Us===
 
===About Us===
  
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation or O|B|F is a non profit, volunteer run organization focused on supporting [[wp:open source|open source]] programming in [[wp:bioinformatics|bioinformatics]].
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The Open Bioinformatics Foundation or O|B|F is a non-profit, volunteer-run group dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of [[wp:open source|Open Source]] software development and [[wp:Open science|Open Science]] within the biological research community.
 
 
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 [[Projects|member projects]].
 
  
 
Our main activities are:
 
Our main activities are:
  
* Underwriting and supporting the [[BOSC]] conferences
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* Running and supporting the [[BOSC]] conferences.
* Organizing and supporting developer-centric "[[Hackathon]]" events
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* Organizing and supporting developer-centric "[[Hackathon]]" events.
* Managing our servers, colocation facilities, bank account & other assets
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* [[Google Summer of Code| Participating in the Google Summer of Code program]] on behalf of our [[Projects| member projects]] as an umbrella mentoring organization.
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* Managing our servers, colocation facilities, bank account, domain names, and other assets.
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* Public opinion and policy statements about matters related to Open Source and Open Science in bioinformatics.
  
 
As of October 12, 2012, the O|B|F is now a [http://www.spi-inc.org Software in the Public Interest, Inc.] (SPI) associated project.
 
As of October 12, 2012, the O|B|F is now a [http://www.spi-inc.org Software in the Public Interest, Inc.] (SPI) associated project.
 
* [[:File:OBF-Bylaws.pdf| Our bylaws]], with the [https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/pull/8 changes] approved on Sep 11, 2012.
 
* [[:File:OBF-Bylaws.pdf| Our bylaws]], with the [https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/pull/8 changes] approved on Sep 11, 2012.
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=== History ===
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O|B|F grew out of the volunteer projects [[BioPerl]], [[BioJava]] and [[Biopython]] and was formally incorporated in 2001 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 our projects' developer communities, there is clear commonality of direction and purpose.
  
 
===BOSC===
 
===BOSC===

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About Us

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation or O|B|F is a non-profit, volunteer-run group dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source software development and Open Science within the biological research community.

Our main activities are:

  • Running and supporting the BOSC conferences.
  • Organizing and supporting developer-centric "Hackathon" events.
  • Participating in the Google Summer of Code program on behalf of our member projects as an umbrella mentoring organization.
  • Managing our servers, colocation facilities, bank account, domain names, and other assets.
  • Public opinion and policy statements about matters related to Open Source and Open Science in bioinformatics.

As of October 12, 2012, the O|B|F is now a Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI) associated project.

History

O|B|F grew out of the volunteer projects BioPerl, BioJava and Biopython and was formally incorporated in 2001 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 our projects' developer communities, there is clear commonality of direction and purpose.

BOSC

The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is held annually in conjunction with ISCB's meeting, ISMB. BOSC 2013 will take place July 17-18, right before ISMB/ECCB 2013 in Berlin, Germany.

See some of the Past BOSC conferences.