Tag: OBF
New Code of Conduct, Community Support Sponsorship approved by OBF membership vote
January 27, 2022 :
As previously described, during the November 2021 public Board meeting, the OBF announced two new initiatives to be voted on […]
ISCBacademy webinar Feb 22: Yo Yehudi
January 20, 2022 :
Date & Time: Tuesday, February 22, 2022, 15:00 UTC / 11am EDT Location: online webinar hosted by ISCB Speaker: Yo […]
OBF Membership Referendum
January 4, 2022 :
During our last public Board meeting, the OBF announced two new initiatives that are being proposed for approval by the […]
2nd US Semantic Technology Symposium 2019
April 6, 2019 :
This is a guest blog post from Md Kamruzzaman Sarker, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel […]
Updates are coming!
November 19, 2018 :
About a year ago, the OBF shared plans to get more involved with the open science community, and followed up […]
New OBF logo
November 5, 2018 :
We have successfully crowd-sourced a new OBF logo! The process started at the OBF Birds of a Feather meeting at GCCBOSC […]
The color of bioinformatics: what is it and how can it be modified?
August 29, 2018 :
This is a guest blog post from Tendai Mutangadura, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship program to attend […]
Biopython 1.72 released
June 27, 2018 :
Dear Biopythoneers, I’m writing this in Portland at the GCC BOSC 2018 conference, where I will present the Biopython Project […]
Travel award recipients for April 2018
May 25, 2018 :
We had another great round of applications for the OBF Travel Fellowship this spring. After reviewing the applications, the OBF Board selected […]
OBF Public Board Meeting to take place March 16, 2018 at 15:00 UTC
March 5, 2018 :
The OBF Board of Directors holds a public meeting about once a year, in accordance with our bylaws. The next […]
Next OBF Travel Fellowship application deadline is Dec 15!
December 7, 2017 :
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship program was launched in 2016 to help increase diverse participation at events promoting open source […]
OBF visioning 2017
November 14, 2017 :
TL;DR: The OBF isn’t doing enough in public policy and advocacy around Open Science, and we are looking to recruit […]
Mailing list outage, and public board meeting update
November 12, 2017 :
This time of year we’d normally be having a public board meeting as part of our commitment to communication with […]
Biopython on Podcast.__init__
September 5, 2017 :
Podcast.__init__ describes itself as “The Podcast About Python and the People Who Make It Great”, and the most recent episode […]
Biopython 1.70 released
July 11, 2017 :
Dear Biopythoneers, Source distributions of Biopython 1.70 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website, and the release […]
Travel award recipients for April 2017
June 5, 2017 :
We had a huge response to this round of the OBF travel award. After reviewing the applications, the OBF board […]
Biopython 1.69 released
April 7, 2017 :
Dear Biopythoneers, Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.69 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython […]
OBF Public Board of Directors Meeting
October 5, 2016 :
The OBF has at least one public board meeting per year, in part to vote on important business issues, and in part to […]