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Talk:BOSC 2009
From Open Bioinformatics Foundation
This page will be used for discussion of BOSC 2009 planning.
Contents
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
- Choose conference management software
- Easy Chair
- Open Conference System
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
Program
Keynote speakers
- Aim for between 2 and 4, at least one each morning
Session Topics
- Bio* Updates
- Open Source Software
- Design Patterns in Bioinformatics
- Grand Challenges in the Post-Encode Era (subtitle for conference?)
- Regulatory Genomics/Computational Genomics
- Tutorials
- Lightning Talks
- Birds of a Feather