[Bioc-devel] ANN: BioC Developer's Meeting

[Seth Falcon]

Greetings all,

Many of you will already have received a copy of this message (that
is, if you are listed as a BioC package maintainer with the correct
email address)...


BioC developers are invited to attend the annual BioC Developer's
Meeting.

When: Monday, August 15, 2005
Where: Seattle, Washington, USA 

We propose the following agenda items.  

1. Who do we want as our audience? Lab biologists? Practical
   Bioinformaticians?  Statistics consultants/academics? What are the
   implications for our projects.

2. Integration of efforts (packages) that are currently duplicating
   (or competing with) each other.

3. Do we need a 3-day BioC developers retreat to go into more depth
   than what is possible on 1 day, if yes, settle on when, where (some
   isolated but attractive place in US or Europe), and who's
   organizing it.

4. Short-term and medium-term goals for BioC?

Whether or not you will be able to attend, we encourage you to
contribute suggestions for additional agenda items (send them to me
or, better yet, post to bioc-devel).

Details on specific meeting location and times will follow, but we
wanted to put out this invitation as soon as possible to allow for
those interested to arrange their schedules.

Note that the timing is between the R and BioC conferences being held
in Seattle.  Information on accommodations and airfare discounts
available here: http://www.bioconductor.org/meeting05/

Best Wishes,

+ seth