Sprints, Hackathons and Codefests as community gluons in computational biology

Steffen Möller, Enis Afgan, Michael Banck, Peter J. a. Cock, Matus Kalas, Laszlo Kajan, Pjotr Prins, Jacqueline Quinn, Olivier Sallou, Francesco Strozzi, Torsten Seemann, Andreas Tille, Roman Valls Guimera, Toshiaki Katayama, Brad Chapman

Abstract

Sprints, Hackathons and Codefests are all names used for informal software developer meetings, especially popular in open source communities. These meetings, along side more traditional conferences, are a vital part of the international network of interactions between software developers working in bioinformatics and computational biology, and comple- ment purely online interactions such as project mailing lists, online chat, web forums and more recently voice and video calls. This paper lays out how the events are organised and presents an overview on their achievements.
Original languageEnglish
JournalEMBnet.journal
Volume19
Pages (from-to)40
Number of pages1
ISSN2226-6089
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013

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