Open Bioinformatics Foundation as Associated Project

[Gregers Petersen]

On 19/06/12 20:12, Josh Berkus wrote:
> SPI members:
> 
> The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF)[1] is a currently incorporated
> entity which hosts legal and financial infrastructure for a variety of
> open source bioinformatics projects, including BioPerl, Biojava,
> Biopython, Bioruby, and BioSQL.  They also host the annual Open
> Bioinformatics Conference[2].
> 
> As the OBF is currently incorporated as a for-profit corporation, they
> would like to become an SPI Assocaited project preparatory to shutting
> down the for-profit corporation, and to reduce the amount of time their
> volunteers spend doing corporate paperwork.

Very interesting. The potential joining of OBF would bring an addition
of interesting perspectives to SPI.

> 
> The OBF would like to join SPI as a single Associated Project.  Their
> liaison would be chosen by an election substantially similar to their
> current corporate bylaws for election of their president.[3]
> 
> As the OBF is a substantial open source project whose goals are in
> alignment with the goals of SPI, I think it makes sense to accept them.
>  In the event that this moves to a board agenda item, the OBF will
> prepare liaison election procedures suitable for their Associated
> membership.
> 
> [1] http://open-bio.org/
> [2] http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2012
> [3] http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/File:OBF-Bylaws.pdf
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Gregers Petersen
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