[BiO BB] Looking for suggestions on where to hold next meeting

[Iddo Friedberg]

I think ISMB is the best choice, given that the BOSC crowd there are:
1) Motivated to hear about open-source projects &
2) A captive audience :)

RECOMB & PSB are smaller, and do not have a "critical mass" of people 
interested in joining in on open-source projects per-se.

I don't know about the crowd IEEE or Bio-IT meetings.

best,

Iddo

J.W. Bizzaro wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> Bioinformatics.Org is looking to hold its 4th Annual Meeting (4AM) in 
> 2004.  The last 3 meetings took place as follows:
> 
> 2001: ISMB, Copenhagen, Denmark
> 2002: O'Reilly Biocon, Tucson, Arizona
> 2003: O'Reilly Biocon, San Diego, California
> 
> Note that O'Reilly won't be holding a bioinformatics conference in 2004.
> 
> Some of the other conferences that come to mind include...
> 
> - ISMB/ECCB 2004 (Scotland): http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2004/
> 
> - Bio-IT World 2004 (Boston): http://www.bioitworldexpo.com/
> 
> - IEEE/CSB 2004 (Stanford?): 
> http://conferences.computer.org/bioinformatics/index.html
> 
> Of course, there's also PSB and RECOMB:
> 
> - PSB 2004 (Hawaii): http://psb.stanford.edu/
> 
> - RECOMB 2004 (San Diego): http://recomb04.sdsc.edu/ (The Westin-Horton 
> seems to be a popular hotel)
> 
> What other places would be good to hold our meeting?  Should we consider 
> Open Source and Linux conferences?  Please suggest places that **YOU** 
> would actually go to.  Please don't say, "Go to this conference in 
> Syberia", when you know that you wouldn't go.
> 
> 2AM and 3AM had good attendance.  Our track talks got between 50 and 100 
> attendees.  We would like to match or improve upon that for 4AM.
> 
> Cheers.
> Jeff

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