Dear all, to bring Debian Med (and ourselves with it) closer with upstream and their organisations, I suggest to prepare a page with links to them. This would be too many to list them, I presume, but how about the following two selection criteria:
* regional coverage - the world-wide ones plus one per continent * those where contributors of Debian Med are members in, and the member should then be named as a contact person The above I would then cross-produce with the different fields we are gathering in Debian Med, i.e. Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics, Image analysis, ... you name it. I would prefer a solution on Blend-level for this, since this concern of mine (and of Debian Med at large, I hope) in my perception is a general one. We could add the annual fees associated with membership, at least for the OBF, which is free. Here are those organisations that I would like to see added for Bioinformatics ... Charles et al. certainly have some extra ones in mind: ISCB - International Society for Computational Biology http://www.iscb.org/ organises the ISMB conference and local conferences in Latin America and Africa. Members in Debian Med: Steffen Region: world-wide OBF - Open Bioinformatics Foundation http://open-bio.org organises the annual BOSC (Bionformatics Open Source Conference) as a satellite conference to the ISMB focusing on the strengthening of Free software in our field. It hosts web sites for the Bio{Java,Perl,Python,SQL} libraries. Members in Debian Med: Steffen Region: world-wide GI-BIOINF - Gesellschaft für Informatik, Fachgruppe Informatik in den Biowissenschaften http://www.cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de/groups/fg402/ organises annual (mostly) english-spoken German Conference in Bioinforamtics Members in Debian Med: Steffen Region: de/at/ch SPI - Software in the Public Interest http://www.spi-inc.org/ A company existing only for the purpose of organising funds for Debian. Regional cooperations help with saving transfer costs. I feel rather good about such a page. Andreas? Internally, from what I observe, those organisations are fairly loosely coupled, much like we are. I cannot tell about how many more contributors Debian Med will achieve via those routes, at least there will be more users. And particularly for the outreach to Africa and Latin America I am very much hoping for the support of such organisations. What came to mind are tutorials at conferences with travel paid by them (also good for key signing). Two years ago at BOSC we discussed the collection of tutorials / summer school material by upstream that should go on some Live CD as an extension to Debian. This effort then stalled but is revivable any time, it just needs the right person to get the right kind of grant through. And we need then to make sure that Debian is not understood as a competition to such an effort but perceived as a regular medium to reach out. That is what all the funding agencies want to be certain of - they want to make a difference - "through us" we should then not even need to shout any more. Cheers, Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
