Issue 3 of the newsletter

[yochannah]

This is a call to everyone out there who works in open bioinformatics - please share interesting stuff! This could be a new project launch, an interesting update or release, a link to useful resources (e.g. some nice biology related icons or an open source tool that could be useful, etc. If you aren't sure about something, feel free to drop me a line personally to discuss it, e.g. via twitter or email (yochannah@gmail.com).

Promoting yourself or your workplace is totally ok here - this is literally what the newsletter is for, within reason! You can see our last newsletter content here: https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/blob/master/newsletters/2018-07.md

[yochannah]

To be done - community resources survey. The OBF used to offer server / tech resources but in the age of GiTHub, Gitlab pages, and free static hosting, little of that is needed. What resources do you think would be useful? Video conferencing? Other? (I'll put together a survey for people to fill out)

[yochannah]

We should add the eLife Innovation Sprint applications to this! Tell @emmyft about this.

[yochannah]

Okay, current list of items:

OBF

• BOSC - late abstracts still open 'til may 15th
• Travel fellowship announcements, if they're ready (may not be).
• Community survey mentioned above
• GSoC - students announced!
• New website

Interesting links

• eLife Sprint applications are open!
• Tweet moments from Swapna
• The Turing way: making it "too easy not to do" reproducible data science
• GCC - coming up!

Other ideas welcome!

[nlharris]

That sounds like plenty of content!! Do you even have time to work on this?!

[yochannah]

Not really, but I really want to get it out anyway. lol.

[asntech]

It will be great if you could include the @ecrcentral link to spread the word about this resource https://ecrcentral.org/ - Thanks!

[yochannah]

Okay, the content for this issue is frozen as it'll be going out imminently.

[yochannah]

https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/blob/master/newsletters/2019-05.md