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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

Preliminary Policy Statement on Public Funding and Open Source

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation believes that scientific software developed with public support should be distributed under terms analogous to those applied to biological materials. In common with treatment of reagents under the UBMTA and good practice, we believe that the essential source code necessary for reproducing published results should be made readily available for non-commercial research use.

While acknowledging that open source licenses may not be optimal in every instance, we believe that development and release of software under open source licenses is often beneficial and efficient in creating valuable scientific software, and in encouraging its widespread use and most successful exploitation.

Available online at http://open-bio.org/pipermail/open-bioinformatics-foundation/2001-October/000001.html

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