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* Need chairs for the geographic regions of North/South America, Europe, Asia
 
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** Draft and send by e-mail conference advertisements and call for papers
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Revision as of 21:37, 6 October 2008

This page will be used for discussion of BOSC 2009 planning.

Important Dates

  • Need date proposal due to ISMB
  • Call for abstracts begins
  • Abstract deadline
  • Review period
  • Notification of accepted abstracts
  • Deadline for revised papers (for proceedings if we have one)
  • Need date program is due to ISMB
  • ISMB is June 27 to July 2, presumably BOSC would be the two days before, June 25-26.

Steering Committee

Steering Committee Co-Chairs

  • Kam D. Dahlquist
  • Lonnie R. Welch
  • The chairs listed below are also members of the steering committee.

Publications Chair

  • Chair: Jens Lichtenberg
  • Description: collecting, organizing, formatting abstracts, making program (PDF for hard copy), web site

Publicity Chairs

  • Need chairs for the geographic regions of North/South America, Europe, Asia
  • Description:
    • Draft and send by e-mail conference advertisements and call for papers
    • Manage mailing of promotional/informational materials
Publicity Ideas/Action Items
  • Update/create E-mail lists
    • Participant lists from previous BOSC conferences
    • O|B|F projects
    • O|B|F members
    • bioinformatics programs
  • Advertising exchange with PLoS
  • Poster

Sponsorship Chair

  • Need Sponsorship Chair
  • Description:
    • renew with previous sponsors
    • seek new sponsors (industry, academic, government)

Finance Chair

  • Need Finance Chair
  • Description: handles budget for conference

Program Chair

  • Need Program Chair
  • Description:
    • Recruits and manages the Abstract reviewers
    • Recruits Session Chairs for conference

Session Topics

  • Keynote speakers
    • Aim for between 2 and 4, at least one each morning
    • Suggestion: Design Patterns
  • Tutorials
  • Grand Challenges in Computational Genomics

Logistics

Budget

  • Need to get from Steven Leard final budget and attendance numbers for 2008

Conference Management Software

  • Used Open Conference Systems in 2008
  • Easy Chair

Program

Day 1

Day 2