Tag: Community
OBF Public Board of Directors Meeting
October 5, 2016 :
The OBF has at least one public board meeting per year, in part to vote on important business issues, and in part to […]
BOSC 2016 in Disney World with Donald Docker!
July 21, 2016 :
First I would like to congratulate OBF that supports diversity in the community with its travel awards initiative. I was […]
New BioJava Logo Design Competition
June 14, 2016 :
BioJava is organizing a design competition to come up with a new logo. Anybody can participate: The logo should look […]
First three OBF travel fellowships awarded
May 23, 2016 :
The first round of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship program has granted funds to three open source bioinformatics software […]
Welcome to our Google Summer of Code 2016 students
April 25, 2016 :
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation is participating in the Google Summer of Code 2016 program, and last Friday the selected students were […]
Phyloinformatics Summer of Code supports OBF Travel Fellowship Program
April 18, 2016 :
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation is pleased to announce a gift of USD 18,125 from the Phyloinformatics Summer of Code toward […]
BOSC CodeFest 2016
March 28, 2016 :
The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is a two day meeting focused on open source bioinformatics. We aim to encourage […]
BOSC 2016 Keynote Speakers
March 22, 2016 :
We’re delighted to announce the keynote speakers for the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, BOSC 2016: Jennifer Gardy Dr. Jennifer Gardy […]
BOSC 2016 Call for Abstracts
March 1, 2016 :
Call for Abstracts for the 17th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2016), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of ISMB 2016. […]
OBF Travel Fellowship Program
March 1, 2016 :
We are very pleased to announce our new Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Travel Fellowship program. The program is designed to […]
Apply for OBF Membership online
December 10, 2015 :
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) is pleased to announce that we’ve finally entered the 21st century and upgraded our membership form […]
BOSC 2015 Panel – increasing diversity
June 5, 2015 :
Every year, BOSC includes a panel discussion that offers all attendees the chance to engage in conversation with the panelists and each other. The theme of the BOSC 2015 panel would be “Open Source, Open Door: increasing diversity in the bioinformatics open source community”. Our complete list of panellists is as follows…
Open Source, Open Door: increasing diversity in the bioinformatics open source community
April 2, 2015 :
The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) has always been about community. Our goal this year is to welcome even greater participation, opening the door even wider to participants who have historically been underrepresented in the world of open source bioinformatics and, therefore, at BOSC.
BOSC 2015 Keynote Speakers
March 26, 2015 :
Announcing the keynote speakers for the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, BOSC 2015: Holly Bik and Ewan Birney.
BOSC 2015 call for Abstracts
March 5, 2015 :
Call for Abstracts for the 16th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2015), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of ISMB/ECCB 2015.
Sadly OBF not accepted for GSoC 2015
March 3, 2015 :
Last year’s Google Summer of Code 2014 was very productive for the OBF with six students working on Bio* and related bioinformatics projects. We applied to be part of GSoC 2015, but unfortunately this year were not accepted.
OBF Google Summer of Code 2014 Wrap-up
February 23, 2015 :
In 2014, OBF had six students in the Google Summer of Code 2014™ (GSoC) program mentored under its umbrella of […]
BOSC 2015 will be in Dublin with ISMB/ECCB 2015
September 18, 2014 :
We have asked you, and you have spoken! 59 past and/or future BOSC attendees participated in our survey, answering questions about what […]