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About 30 open source informatics developers are hacking away in Singapore now working on various efforts. The main website is at http://hackathon.open-bio.org and contains links to the Blog site and the picture gallery.

Urgent notice –> Primary CVS server has been relocated to pub.open-bio.org

“dev.open-bio.org” – our primary developer server is down in Boston with a corrupt password file. Chris blames the Solaris audit subsystem for not liking root commands issued via SSH connections :)

We have moved the CVS repositories to a Linux box called “pub.open-bio.org”. Developer accounts have been created but with different passwords. Email the OBF Sysadmin team at root-l@open-bio.org to get your new password.

Mark reports:

Just noticed a little snippit about biojava in the latest issue of the scientist http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2003/jan/labcon_030127.html (free registration required to view the article)

Jason reports:

Bioperl 1.2 was mentioned in ‘The Scientist’ (free registration required to read this link) http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2003/jan/labcon_030113.html

Thomas Down reports:

We’ve had a number of requests recently for a more recent snapshot of the biojava-live code, so I’ve just put together a biojava-1.3pre1 release. Get source, binaries, and javadocs from: http://www.biojava.org/download/

This isn’t absolutely set in stone yet, but should give a reasonable indication of what the forthcoming 1.3 series is going to look like. All testing and comments welcome!

One thing to note about the *binary* release: I’ve compiled this using Sun JDK 1.4.1. There may be compatibility problems with Java 1.3 runtime envionments in some cases, so if you’re using Java 1.3 and think you’ve found a bug, please try downloading the source and recompiling. I’ve released jdk1.4 binaries this time as an experiment. If there are violent objections, we can always do back to jdk1.3.1 for compiling binary releases, or perhaps provide both. Please let me know if you have any thoughts on this, or if it causes you trouble.

Mark Schreiber has posted more than 40 tutorials on using “biojava in anger” at http://bioconf.otago.ac.nz/biojava/

The 1.2 Bioperl release is now available from the usual location.

Site URL is: http://open-bio.org/bosc2002 and the pictures from the event are available at http://gallery.open-bio.org/gallery/bosc2001

August 2, 2002

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Call to order

Board members present: Hilmar, Chris, Ewan, Steven, Andrew

Recognition of observers (about 21)

This meeting was open to the the public. I don’t know all of the people who commented, hence the question marks.

Review of schedule by Ewan

Steven - asked about money owed us from Hidelberg meeting
Chris - says it’s about 20-30 commercial people
Decided to follow up on that money - assigned to Chris (AI)
Steven - asked about audit
Chris, financials Jan. to Jan. year; report out next year
Action item: Chris to find an accountant to audit

Available online at http://open-bio.org/newsletters/2002-08-newsletter.html