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. 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 _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
