DAG-Edit Meeting: Save the Date! (fwd)

[Katica Ilic]

To Felipe, Leszek and the other ontology developers,

Here is John's e-amil about Dag-edit workshop I mentioned during the
meeting.
The final date is May 26-28, location Walnut Creek, CA, (not far from
Stanford).

Let me know if you are interested to attend, and I'll keep you updated
regarding programs and other details.


Katica

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 12:07:25 -0800 (PST)
From: John Richter <john.richter at aya.yale.edu>
To: go at genome.stanford.edu
Cc: Suzanna Lewis <suzi at fruitfly.org>, Karen Eilbeck <eilbeck at fruitfly.org>
Subject: DAG-Edit Meeting: Save the Date!


Hello, good consortium members. After much gnashing of teeth, and
rearranging, we have come up with tentative dates/locations for the
DAG-Edit meeting...

The fine people at the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, CA have
offered us the use of their facilities for the dates of May 26-May 28th
(I'm thinking 10am - 5:00 pm running time). Breakfast, lunch and
afternoon snack will be provided (and I'll make damned sure that the
caterers pull out a decent offering for vegetarians this time around).

At the moment, we are still working out a budget, so it's not clear
whether we'll need to ask attendees for a contribution. My main concern
right now is for dates. I'm hoping that May 26-28th will accomodate
Stanford's remote curators, and any curators who might be coming to the
Bay Area for the curatorial meeting this summer. If anyone can think of
serious problems with these dates, please let me know immediately. Failure
to hear loud complaints within the next week will be taken to mean consent
(this is the same system I use when communicating with God, and He has
yet to object).

The DAG-Edit meeting format will be similar to the last time. There will
be new software releases and bug fixes each day, mini-talks on a variety
of topics in the morning and afternoon, with most of the day devoted to
developing one's own ontology. Since there's the potential for many
GO curators to be in the room at once, I'd like to make this an
opportunity for curators from entirely different sites to get a chance to
actually work side-by-side, and see how other curators do things.

To this end, I'd like to encourage curators who plan to attend to start
thinking about things they'd like to work on with curators from other
sites. Also, if anyone is interested in giving a mini-talk, please let me
know. Potential topics might be:

* This piece of software that really helps me develop the ontologies
* DAG-Edit tips
* This thing about DAG-Edit sucks; here's how my group would rather have
it
* A tricky logical issue that showed up while developing our ontology; how
we dealt with it

And so on.

Anyway, the point is:

* If you have a problem with May 26-28, let me know right away
* If you want to give a talk, let me know right away

Once we're sure about dates and prices, I'll be putting up a web page for
signups.

	Thanks for reading to the end,

		John