OBF 2014 Update Promotes Open Source Bioinformatics
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The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) is a non-profit organization that promotes open source software development and open science in bioinformatics. It sponsors conferences like BOSC and initiatives that nurture the bioinformatics community. The OBF accepts donations for and manages assets on behalf of member projects. In the past year, the OBF board of directors was elected, the OBF participated in Google Summer of Code, and the organization is working to improve sustainability and professionalism as an all-volunteer group.
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OBF 2014 Update Promotes Open Source Bioinformatics
- 1. Open Bioinformatics Foundation: 2014 Update & Some Introspection Hilmar Lapp, President BOSC 2014
- 2. What is the OBF? • Umbrella organization for the Bio* projects (and EMBOSS) • Non-profit, entirely volunteer-run • Dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source software development and Open Science within the life sciences.
- 3. What does OBF do? • Sponsor and run BOSC and other community- nurturing initiatives • Code Fests (and hackathons) • Mentoring organization in Google Summer of Code • Advocacy to promote Open Source and Open Science in bioinformatics • Accepting and disbursing donations on behalf of member projects • Managing assets on behalf of our member projects.
- 4. Chris Fields @cjfields U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign O|B|F is governed by a Board of Directors
- 5. OBF is an SPI-associated project
- 6. You can donate tax- exempt to OBF
- 7. We use open and collaborative processes
- 8. Growing Community: Attaining and maintaining OBF affiliation
- 9. What happened since BOSC 2013?
- 10. Board of Directors Elections • Hilmar Lapp elected to a second term as President. • Nomi Harris elected as Director at- large, second term on the Board • Peter Cock elected as Secretary, second term on the Board
- 11. OBF is participating in the Google Summer of Code • Eric Talevich (Biopython) & Raoul Bonnal (Bioruby) serve as admins • 6 Students working in Biopython, Bioruby, Biohaskell, JSBML • Promoting reciprocal inclusivity for umbrella organizations such as OBF
- 12. Moving hosting to Open Source Lab • Commercial cloud hosting costs eat up a major part of our income. • OSL has expressed interest in taking us on. • Gathering the necessary information has been slow and painful. • Hoping to get this completed in 2014.
- 15. Sustainability is hard, including for organizations and communities
- 16. Sustaining professional systems with volunteers is a challenge • OBF sysadmin work rests on the same too few people with too little time. • Hard to be professional with volunteer work. • Other all-volunteer tech foundations have similar problems.
- 17. OBF is a membership organization. Or is it? 0 30 60 90 120 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Members For perspective: •Biopython: 816 (346 on dev) •Bioperl-l: 978
- 18. Can you help us improve this?
- 19. What’s next? • Improve our professionalism • Increase what we do well. Divest of/ partner for everything else. • Partner with organizations well aligned with our mission and goals • Identify the best ways to invest in our community
- 20. Connect with us • Web: http://www.open-bio.org/ • Twitter: @obf_news • GitHub: http://github.com/obf/ • News blog: http://news.open-bio.org/ • Join us as a member.