August 2, 2002 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Call to order Board members present: Hilmar, Chris, Ewan, Steven, Andrew Recognition of observers (about 21) This meeting was open to the the public. I don’t know all of the people who commented, hence the question marks.

Available online at http://open-bio.org/newsletters/2002-08-newsletter.html

Preliminary Policy Statement on Public Funding and Open Source The Open Bioinformatics Foundation believes that scientific software developed with public support should be distributed under terms analogous to those applied to biological materials.

Available online at http://open-bio.org/pipermail/open-bioinformatics-foundation/2001-October/000001.html

Site URL is: http://open-bio.org/bosc2001 and the pictures from the event are available at http://gallery.open-bio.org/gallery/bosc2001