Our website was down yesterday and the experts who run our hosting company didn't have a nightly backup, so the post I wrote on Tuesday vanished into the ether. So I'm going to recreate it from memory. Here goes ...

BioBarCamp has come and gone... what a great time!

Special thanks goes out to Attila Csordas and John Cumbers who were the main instigators that made this event happen.

BioBarCamp in Palo Alto next month is now officially full!  With 75 available slots any new sign ups will be going onto a waiting list.

Held at the Instituue for the Future, this camp looks to be shaping up to be an interesting event.  This BarCamp will be slanted towards towards Biologists (hence its name) but I think that we will still find a lot of common ground to discuss.

Some links for those looking for more information about the event:

Jim Thomas, an attendee of the first SciBarCamp, has written an excellant review for The British Association for the Advancement of Science (The BA).

In related news, there will be a BioBarCamp held in Palo Alto this August which I'm planning on attending.

SciBarCamp got a decent write up in the National Post (here)

A very important message to pass on from the author of the article (Dave Sachs)..."Don't blame me for the title!"

Its been a busy March.  A talk at Pittcon in New Orleans, then directly over to Microsoft in Boulder, Colorado to visit Rob Fatland about the SEAMONSTER project, and finally SciBarCamp in Toronto.

Its been almost a year to the date of my post about  a science based Barcamp... Thanks to the hard work of Jen Dodd we have SciBarCamp coming our way.