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