Talk:BOSC 2009

• This page will be used for discussion of BOSC 2009 planning.
• Call for SIG proposals at ISMB

Important Dates

NOTE: Dates in BOLD are determined by ISMB. Dates in italics are "penciled" in for planning purposes.

• Wednesday, November 19, 2008: SIG proposals due to ISMB
• Friday, December 12, 2008: Instance of OCS set up and tested (or Easy Chair)
• Wednesday, December 17, 2008: Notification of provisional acceptance of SIG proposal from ISMB
• Thursday, December 18, 2008: Call for BOSC abstracts begins
• February 16, 2009: Registration Opens
• Wednesday, March 4, 2009: Preliminary program due to ISMB
• Thursday, April 2, 2009: Preliminary program posted online at ISMB web site
• Monday, April 13: Abstract deadline
• April 13-27, 2009: Review period
• April 28-30, 2009: Resolution of disagreements, decisions made
• May 1, 2009: Notification of accepted abstracts
• Thursday, May 7, 2009: Final program due to ISMB
• May 15, 2009: Early Registration Discount Cut-off date
• Monday, June 1, 2009: Handout materials (CD and/or printed) due to ISMB
• Deadline for revised papers (for proceedings if we have one)
• Thursday, June 25 and Friday, June 26, 2009: BOSC
• June 27 to July 2, 2009: ISMB main meeting

Steering Committee

We seek volunteers to help with the organization of BOSC 2009. If you wish to join the BOSC 2009 Steering Committee, please send an e-mail to bosc@open-bio.org.

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