Talk:BOSC 2009

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.

Organizing Committee

• Subcommittees
  • Abstract reviewers
  • Session chairs
  • Publicity
  • Proceedings
  • Sponsorship

Publicity Ideas

• Update mailing lists
  • Participant lists from previous BOSC conferences
  • O|B|F projects
  • O|B|F members
  • create additional lists
    • bioinformatics programs
• Advertising exchange with PLoS

Logistics

Budget

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