Dear all, my colleagues and I are founding a society to support technologies, their description and their communication when these in some way strengthen the efficiency of biomedical research. An emphasis shall be on Open Source technologies as you know them from Debian (for instance we have plenty of demand for additional functionality to be added to GENtle that I had just uploaded to the NEW queue for the planning of cloning experiments) but a collection of protocols for lab roboters seems equally worthy to support. More important is maybe the human side of things, when you observe colleagues with difficulties in using the one or other program, then diverse ideas for summer schools immediately come to mind. Debian packaging would also be eligible for funding, or some common infrastructure like a biocloud environment in which members don't pay for CPU time. But the core effort should really be to get all our work out to the people, i.e. one would pay someone for all the work that the good souls who crafted the original work were no longer interested to do but that is perceived as a gap to get the software across to the end user.
We want that society to be international, even though all seven founders will be just from one floor as a start :) Anybody interested in joining in please tell me. And special ideas would be nice to learn about, if they come real early then they may possibly influence the formulation of the articles a bit. Many greetings Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
