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People,
For those of you who are in the NY metro area or Long Island or are willing
to travel there for a one day conference on the use of open source software
in science, then you may be interested in the following announcement. This
confernece is targeted towards the NY metro and Long Island area residents
but I don't want to exclude anyone just becuase you are not from there.
In anycase, if you know of someone who would be intersted or an appropriate
mail list which to send this message out to, please pass it on.
Thanks.
Steve.
Open Source/Open Science
Brookhaven National Laboratory
http://openscience.bnl.gov/
This message is to announce a one day conference titled
"Open Source/Open Science" to be held on Saturday, October 2nd, at
Brookhaven National Laboratory. The purpose of the conference
is to bring together open source developers and scientists who
use open source for a day of talks. The talks will focus on the
use of open source in science along with talks on leading edge
open source projects which will have a large impact on scientific
research.
The conference is designed to attract attendees from the NY
metro area as well as greater Long Island. Along with the
schedule of talks, tours of the laboratory facilities are
planned throughout the day so that the attendees can see first
hand where open source software is being used at one of the nations
premier national laboratories.
Bus service will be provided between Ronkonkoma and BNL to
help facilitate transport for attendees who will be traveling
from the NY metro area via the LIRR.
The current list of the speaker topics are
Use of Open Source in BNL's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
Use of Open Source at the National Synchrotron Light Source
The Galaxy Parallel Computer Project at SUNY Stony Brook
Open Source Biology Software
IBMs DX Data Visualization Software (recently open sourced)
SGI's GLX and XFS (recently open sourced)
Open Source Compiler Technology
Making Open Source usable
The purpose of this announcement is to gauge the interest and numbers
of those who would like to attend, so that the organizing committee
can better plan the event.
If you think you might want to attend, please send e-mail to
osos@openscience.bnl.gov with information on the approximate number
of people who will join you and where you will be coming
from. (i.e. Will you need transportation from Ronkonkoma to BNL?) Also
include any other comments/questions about the conference you may
have. The questions will serve as a starting point for the conference
FAQ.
A formal announcement and web page will be setup in the next
few weeks.
Thank you.
The Open Source/Open Science organizing committee
Stephen Adler Physics Dept adler@bnl.gov
Malcolm Capel Structural Biology capel@bnl.gov
Ed McFadden Information Tech. Div emc@bnl.gov
Sean Mccorkle Biology Dept. mccorkle@bnl.gov
Tom Schlagel Information Tech. Div. schlagel@bnl.gov
Tim Sailer RHIC Computing Facility sailer@bnl.gov
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