From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 20 11:17:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from coffee.q9media.com (coffee.q9media.com [216.94.229.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B229D37B71B; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:17:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@q9media.com) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (vega.tct.net [216.94.230.13]) by coffee.q9media.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2KJNre74016; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 14:23:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@q9media.com) User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 14:17:25 -0500 Subject: Chili!Soft ASP on FreeBSD? From: Mike Barcroft To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Organization: q9 media Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [BCC'd to advocacy, apologies for the cross-posting.] Originally posted to Daily Daemon News (http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1700) Later picked up by Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/bsd/01/03/20/0923202.shtml) "I spoke with Chili!Soft today about Chili!Soft ASP for FreeBSD. The sales person I spoke with told me they are interested in doing a port to FreeBSD, but they'd like to see enough interest to make the port worth while. So if anyone is interested in ASP software on FreeBSD, I encourage you to call them at (425) 957-1122 and speak to one of their sales representatives. Be sure to tell them how many server licenses you'd expect to buy. They also have an online request form for new platforms (http://www.chilisoft.com/platforms/platreq.htm)." Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Mar 22 3:29:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from fling.sanbi.ac.za (fling.sanbi.ac.za [196.38.142.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D714237B71A; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 03:29:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from johann@egenetics.com) Received: from johann by fling.sanbi.ac.za with local (Exim 3.13 #4) id 14g3HA-000IQE-00; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:29:08 +0200 Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:29:08 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: chat@freebsd.org, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, 2001 Message-ID: <20010322132908.P65109@fling.sanbi.ac.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In July 2000 I posted to these lists about the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2000, which was held in San Diego last August. I'll not repeat what I posted then - you can read it here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=100577+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2000/freebsd-chat/20000730.freebsd-chat For even more info, see the article that Trish Lynch wrote for Open Magazine which was recently republished in the FreeBSD 'zine: http://www.freebsdzine.org/200103/science.php3 Anyone who has not been living under a rock this past year :) should have an idea that the biosciences are gearing up to be one of the premier fields of human scientific endeavour for the forseeable future, now that the "post-genome era" is upon us. To reiterate some of the points I made last year: - Biocomputing is still an almost 100% Unix-dominated field. - It's already a big field, and destined to be HUGE. - Of course, therefore, open source operating systems and tools are coming to play an increasingly important part. Companies like Incyte regularly get PR mileage out of their massive Linux clusters. - Hence this is one area where BSD in general and FreeBSD in particular should be actively advocated, IMHO. And this year I'll add another point: - While dot.coms are slumping, many genomics firms are now seeing their stock price do what internet startups did some five years back. Following my postings last year, Jordan graciously offered to contact the BOSC organisers and supply free FreeBSD CDs to conference-goers. Let me tell you, those CDs wer a hit! :-) BOSC is still a smallish conference, and if your conference pack consists of one folder with some boring documentation and a shiny new shrink-wrapped CD, that CD is bound to draw attention. I did my bit, parading around in my Beastie T-shirt and offering installation help to anyone who seemed to be scrutinising the CD curiously. I had to compete with a large contingent sporting Tux paraphernalia (and one OpenBSD T-shirt, at least). FreeBSD's increasingly mature support for the Alpha platform is a drawcard, I believe. SGI has always been and still is a major player in the bioinfor- matics field, but while that company is having its problems Compaq is stepping into the breach, selling many Alpha boxes (particularly in Japan, we've found). At the conference last year Alpha CDs were in almost as much demand as i386 ones. The small but steadily growing community of people who use FreeBSD in bioinformatics and other biocomputing fields has not been sitting still either. We have set up a mailing list: http://www.plig.net/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bio ... and we're steadily adding more and more relevant ports to the "biology" category of the ports tree. Maintaining the FreeBSD ports has led me to become more involved with some of these open source development efforts (and in some cases to try to steer them gently away from a single-platform, NIH scenario). At any rate, attached is the announcement for BOSC 2001, which will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark. Please spread the word to the BSD community. :-) -- Johann ----- Forwarded message from Ewan Birney ----- > From: Ewan Birney > Subject: [Bioperl-l] BOSC meeting announcement > To: bioperl-l@bioperl.org, "'biojava-l@biojava.org'" , > biopython@biopython.org, biocorba-l@biocorba.org, emboss-dev@embnet.org > Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:55:45 +0000 (GMT) > > > BOSC 2001 (http://www.open-bio.org/bosc2001/) > --------------------------------------------- > > We are pleased to announce that the Bioinformatics Open Source > Conference (BOSC2001) is now open for registration. Please see the > web site at http://www.open-bio.org/bosc2001/ for complete details. > Like last year, BOSC is running as a satellite meeting to ISMB, allowing > those traveling to Copenhagen to attend both meetings. > > KEY DATES: > Deadline for BOSC registration June 19, 2001 > BOSC2001 July 19-20 > ISMB tutorials July 21 > ISMB main sessions July 22-25 > > This year, BOSC will be organized around existing open source > bioinformatics projects such as Biojava, Bioperl, Biopython, EMBOSS and > others. The mornings will feature presentations drawn from submitted > abstracts. During the afternoons there will be a chance for collaborative > coding (desktop machines provided courtsey of Sun and there will also be > ethernet hubs), and the ability to have small, across-group meetings. The > leaders of most of the open source projects are expected to be there and > based on previous years we expect a good attendance of open source > bioinformaticians. > > BOSC will be held in parallel with the BioPathways Consortium meeting > (see www.biopathways.org for more details). Close cooperation and joint > registration will allow attendees to participate in both events. ----- End forwarded message ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Mar 23 0:52:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from bom2.vsnl.net.in (bom2.vsnl.net.in [202.54.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F66637B719; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 00:51:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toner1@asianwired.net) Received: from 202.54.1.1 (rsvp-208-187-151-175.ac05.dlls.eli.net [208.187.151.175]) by bom2.vsnl.net.in (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D88C104DC; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:19:38 +0530 (GMT+5:30) To: customer@republic.com Date: Thu, 22 Mar 01 03:22:20 EST From: toner1@asianwired.net Subject: toner supplies Message-Id: <20010323084939.9D88C104DC@bom2.vsnl.net.in> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG PLEASE FORWARD TO THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR PURCHASING YOUR LASER PRINTER SUPPLIES **** VORTEX SUPPLIES **** -SPECIALS OF THE DAY ON LASER TONER SUPPLIES AT DISCOUNT PRICES-- LASER PRINTER TONER CARTRIDGES COPIER AND FAX CARTRIDGES WE ARE -->THE<-- PLACE TO BUY YOUR TONER CARTRIDGES BECAUSE YOU SAVE UP TO 30% FROM OFFICE DEPOT'S, QUILL'S OR OFFICE MAX'S EVERY DAY LOW PRICES ORDER BY PHONE:1-888-288-9043 ORDER BY FAX: 1-888-977-1577 CUSTOMER SERVICE: 1-888-248-2015 E-MAIL REMOVAL LINE: 1-888-248-4930 UNIVERSITY AND/OR SCHOOL PURCHASE ORDERS WELCOME. 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To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Mar 23 15:40:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.unixathome.org (ns1.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC8437B719 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:40:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (dan@wocker.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.99]) by ns1.unixathome.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2NNeSf06757 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:40:29 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Message-Id: <200103232340.f2NNeSf06757@ns1.unixathome.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: novice in training To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:40:27 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Graphics needed for FreeBSD Diary and FreshPorts Reply-To: dan@langille.org X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Folks: I'd like someone to donate their time and skills please. I'd like a couple of banners done for FreeBSD Diary and FreshPorts. I'm trying to get into a banner exchange, but I have no banners. The existing graphics are way too big for the standard 468x60 banner size. If anyone is willing, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger dan@unixathome.org | http://unixathome.org/finger.php got any work? I'm looking for some. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message