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.

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

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

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