Hi folks I second all of Steffen's comments here!
As for a Debian-themed COST action; this could be good and I'd certainly support it, in so far as it complements the work of bio.tools & EDAM specifically and ELIXIR-DK generally, including e.g. benchmarking angles. ELIXIR-DK will likely be involved in other COST actions too, but note, we don't intend (at least I hope not :) to lead them because of the high administrative burden. See you at Nettab! Cheers Jon > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> *De: *"Michael Crusoe" <[email protected]> >> *�: *"Debian Med Project List" <[email protected]> >> *Envoy�: *Mercredi 8 Juin 2016 14:58:34 >> *Objet: *NETTAB 2016 abstract deadline extended to June 30th >> >> Solicited topics http://www.igst.it/nettab/2016/submissions/topics/ >> >> I think a presentation on what Debian (Med) has to offer the >> community would be well received and I would be happy to co-author >> or advise such an abstract. >> >> I plan to submit something there (not Debian related) , if accepted, >> it would be nice to meet there ;-) > We should think of writing up all those latest developments. I like the > Nettab, the hackathon, sprints, codefest paper had its origin right > there. I am very much up to it, we just need to ensure that this does > not block us from publishing somewhere more visibly, like a Nature > Scientific Report or some more free flavor of it. Seriously, continuous > modesty wrt impact factors is nice but not helpful. >> >> >> The COST mechanism is also interesting: could fund a four year >> project with support for sprints and trainings on community >> software maintenance. >> >> http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions >> >> We would need collaboration between five COST countries (basically >> Europe), financial support averages EUR 130 000 per year for a >> four-year period (though it is all for meeting support, no >> salaries or direct research support). >> >> I think we need to be affiliated to research institute and research >> programs .... I don't think it would work for Debian. > Oh, we are all employed somewhere. It would work. I am in cHiPSeT > (http://chipset-cost.eu/, anybody finding me on that picture gets a free > drink at our next Sprint). Just, if I was the EU I would say that we are > already doing what the EU wants us to get into - a trusting > international collaboration, so I would not give us any money since we > are too good already. But we should try. Caveat: These meetings take > time. Sending students around and training them takes time. Writing > reports does. All this time needs to help your main job in some way, > otherwise you are in trouble. The COST would hence not necessarily have > "Debian" in its name but of course we should think about that instrument. > > Steffen > > > > >
