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Hackathons

Neil — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:13:13 -0500

This sounds great. The BioPerl guys used to organise "hackathons", but I guess they were restricted more to developers. It would be useful to get developers and end-users together for brainstorming workshops.

other than the sanger centre

Duncan — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:46:02 -0500

Looks like you really filled your boots while in Europe. It's re-assuring to know the likes of Alvis Brazma isn't sure what to do about data integration either. On a pedantic note, "there is literally nothing of interest there [Hinxton] other than the Sanger Center" - What about the EBI, doesn't that count? :)

The only day I've confirmed

Greg — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:44:29 -0500

The only day I've confirmed we'll be in london will be the 8th, other days are likely to be free too. I'll get in touch via email and let you know the details.

London meet-up

stewc — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:04:37 -0500

Sounds good to me - let us know when you're in London. :)

very mini

Neil — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 05:45:43 -0400

I'll keep an eye out for you. I'll probably be wearing black and lurking in a corner, I'm not keen on crowds :)

meetup ?

pansapiens — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:37:36 -0400

I'm dropping in for the last day of ComBio ... could there be, by chance, any other nodalpointers going ? It might be a good opportunity for a mini nodalpoint meetup !?

The audience at most of the t

jaws — Wed, 11 May 2005 16:27:44 -0400

The audience at most of the talks that I attend often consists of people who don't really seem to be listening/comprehending..

You are not the only one !! The toughest job is the moderator/chair of the session, afterall, they have to ask a couple of usually silly questions to get the ball rolling !!

During my PhD years, our institute director would often sleep off in the front row, but would be the first person to ask a question once the claps had woken him up. His trick was quite simple and effective. He would start by 'that graph which you showed a while ago...' whereby the speaker would rapidly scroll through the slides to the first graph/plot. At this point, the question would be something like 'Have you been able to repeat this to the same degree of accuracy in all your experiments ?'. This would make the speaker go into long explanations of the technique etc.

In a nutshell, there should be a separate category for this, although I cannot come up with a name....

nappers

chris — Mon, 09 May 2005 05:05:44 -0400

"Maybe you mentioned this and I just missed it, but..."

In my experience, this is code for "I think this is a pertinent question, but you may have addressed it while I was napping". Whereupon you have to restrain yourself from pointing out that you devoted 2 slides to the damned subject.