Guest post by Thomas Schlapp, CoFest organizer This year we’re looking to have another post-BOSC CoFest! Last year (my first year being involved in BOSC at all) showed me just how collaborative and innovative this community can be. I’d absolutely LOVE to see more of it again. Last year we saw six very fascinating projects see progress (look them over HERE!). Let’s see if we cannot do just a few more in the name of innovation and collaboration!

BOSC 2022 Panel: Building and Sustaining Inclusive Open Science Communities Building open source software is a great start, but to maximize the impact, it’s also necessary to put effort into maintaining it. Similarly, open source / open science communities don’t just need to be built; they also need to be maintained and expanded.

CollaborationFest 2022 In conjunction with our annual meeting, BOSC, the OBF runs a collaborative event (formerly called CodeFest, short for coding festival, and now called CollaborationFest, or CoFest for short). At these events, participants work together to contribute contribute code, documentation, training materials, and challenging analysis problems and use cases.

Go to full lists of talks and posters See talk and poster videos on YouTube BOSC 2022 schedule at a glance Keynotes: Jason Williams (joint keynote with Education COSI): Riding the bicycle — including all scientists on a path to excellence Melissa Haendel (joint keynote with Bio-Ontologies COSI): The open data highway: turbo-boosting translational traffic with ontologies Panel: Building and Sustaining Inclusive Open Science Communities See talk

We are excited to announce that BOSC and Bio-Ontologies will join forces for part of a day at ISMB 2022. The joint session will include talks chosen from abstracts submitted to BOSC or Bio-Ontologies, plus a keynote speaker who is well known in both the ontology and open science communities! BOSC and Bio-Ontologies are two of the longest-running COSIs (Communities of Special Interest) at ISMB: BOSC started in 2000 and Bio-Ontologies in 1998.

BOSC 2022 Keynotes Melissa Haendel (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Joint keynote, BOSC and Bio-Ontologies The open data highway: turbo-boosting translational traffic with ontologies Addressing complex scientific challenges requires a roadmap of data from diverse sources, organisms, contexts, formats, and granularities.

Yesterday we hosted the OBF/BOSC contribution to the ISCBacademy webinar. Our former OBF-board member and Open Life Science co-lead Yo Yehudi presented how internship programs such as Google Summer of Code or Outreachy can be a great way to grow your open source community. If you missed the event, you can now watch the recording on YouTube.

Announcement drafted by Malvika Sharan, Caleb Kibet and Hilya Zahroh, with the OBF Board’s input. The call for applications for the OBF Event Fellowship 2022, round 1 is now open. The deadline for this round is 1 April 2022. Applications should be submitted via this Google Form. We have provided a Word template to help you draft the application locally before filling the form – make a copy of this template.

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to support and encourage diverse participation at events focusing on open source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community. Each year we open two calls for applications, deadlines for which are 1 April and 1 October.

We are delighted to announce that Caleb Kibet and Hilyatuz Zahroh, two members who recently joined the OBF board, will be joining Malvika Sharan as the co-chairs of the OBF Event Fellowship program. Inviting contributions from the OBF board members, as well as bringing insights from their lived experiences, Caleb, Hilya and Malvika will re-evaluate how we can manage the OBF Event fellowship more effectively going forward.

Hi everyone! My name is Melissa and I’m happy to be collaborating with OBF as lead GSoC admin this year along with support from Yo Yehudi. I had a great (virtual) time at BOSC 2021 as an Outreachy intern and am glad to be supporting another internship program this year. It’s time to start coming up with GSoC project ideas again! Below is some info that should help with that.