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O|B|F update and future plans at BOSC 2013.
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Open Bioinformatics Foundation:
A Community For, By, and Of YouHilmar Lapp, President
BOSC 2013
What is the OBF?
• Umbrella organization for the Bio* projects (and EMBOSS)
• Non-profit, entirely volunteer-run
• Dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source software development and Open Science within the life sciences.
What does OBF do?
• Sponsor and run BOSC and other community-nurturing initiatives
• Code Fests (and hackathons)
• Mentoring organization in Google Summer of Code
• Advocacy to promote Open Source and Open Science in bioinformatics
• Accepting and disbursing donations on behalf of member projects
• Managing assets on behalf of our member projects.
OBF has members, and needs more
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MembersComparison benchmarks:•Open-bio-l: 111•Biopython: 787 (331 on dev)•Bioperl-l: 1033
Can you help us improve this?
Chris Fields@cjfieldsU. Illinois Urbana-Champaign
O|B|F is governed by a Board of Directors
Creating an organization that people aspire to serve
• Mission and services that matter
• Processes that work
• Minimal administrative overhead
• Ability to accept tax-exempt donations
• Support for community initiatives
OBF is an SPI-associated project since Oct 2012
SPI Services
• Accepting donations and holding funds
• Holding substantial and intangible assets
• Signing contracts, including underwriting conference events
• Legal assistance (access to legal counsel)
• Technical services (e.g., nameservers)
You can donate tax-exempt to OBF
Including in Europe
Collaborative and transparent policy development
Growing Community: Attaining and maintaining
OBF affiliation
What’s next?
• Improve engagement and recruitment of volunteers
• Partner with organizations well aligned with our mission and goals
• Determine funding programs to best support our community
Connect with us
• Web: http://www.open-bio.org/
• Twitter: @obf_news
• GitHub: http://github.com/obf/
• News blog: http://news.open-bio.org/
• Join us as a member.