Call for Software Bazaar entries open for Conference on Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity (iEvoBio)
Hilmar Lapp
conference on Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and
Biodiversity (iEvoBio), at http://ievobio.org/ocs/index.php/ievobio/
2011. See below for instructions.
The Software Bazaar features presenters demonstrating their software
live on a laptop. At iEvoBio, this session takes the place of a poster
session, and will be approximately 2.0 hours in duration. Conference
attendees will be able to walk from one demonstration to the next and
open a conversation with the presenters. Please also see our FAQ for
this information (http://ievobio.org/faq.html#software). The Software
Bazaar is part of the interactive afternoon program on the first
conference day.
Entries should be software aimed at advancing research in
phylogenetics, evolution, and biodiversity, and can include
interactive visualizations that have been pre-computed (such as SVGs,
or Google Earth-compatible KML files).
Submissions consist of a title, which will typically be the name of
the software (or visualization method) being presented, the URL of a
website where more information about the software can be obtained, and
the license under which the source code is available. The provided
website must contain a link to where the source code (and possibly
binaries) can be downloaded. If it is not obvious from the provided
website, the submission must describe what the software does.
Reviewers will judge whether a submission is within scope of the
conference (see above), and need to be able to verify whether the open-
source requirement(*) is met.
Presenters are expected to bring their own laptops for presentation,
and any auxiliary devices necessary (such as a mouse). Power will be
available at the presentation tables (110V/60Hz, US-style plugs;
international presenters need to bring a suitable adaptor). Please let
the organizing committee know as much in advance as possible if you
expect to have unusually high demands for wireless network bandwidth,
a large display, or other hardware. Note that commercial marketing
activities are not permitted - presenters wishing to promote
commercial or proprietary services or products should contact the
Evolution conference about exhibitor space.
Review and acceptance of Software Bazaar submissions will be on a
rolling basis. The deadline for submission is the morning of the first
day of the conference (June 21). As the number of Software Bazaar
presentation slots is finite, we cannot guarantee the availability of
slots up until the day of the conference. We cannot accept submissions
until the open-source requirements are met.
We ask all submitters of Software Bazaar presentations to be willing
to also serve as reviewers of such, as described above.
Software Bazaar demonstrations are only 1 of 5 kinds of contributed
content that iEvoBio will feature. The other 4 are: 1) Full talks
(closed), 2) Lightning talks, 3) Challenge entries, and 4) Birds-of-a-
Feather gatherings. The Calls for Challenge entries (http://ievobio.org/challenge.html
) and Lightning Talks (same submission URL as above) remain open, and
information on the Birds-of-a-Feather session is forthcoming.
More details about the program and guidelines for contributing content
are available at http://ievobio.org. You can also find continuous
updates on the conference's Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/iEvoBio.
iEvoBio is sponsored by the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center
(NESCent) in partnership with the Society for the Study of Evolution
(SSE) and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). Additional
support has been provided by the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
The iEvoBio 2011 Organizing Committee:
Rob Guralnick (University of Colorado at Boulder) (Co-chair)
Cynthia Parr (Encyclopedia of Life) (Co-chair)
Dawn Field (UK National Environmental Research Center)
Mark Holder (University of Kansas)
Hilmar Lapp (NESCent)
Rod Page (University of Glasgow)
(*) iEvoBio and its sponsors are dedicated to promoting the practice
and philosophy of Open Source software development (see http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php)
and reuse within the research community. For this reason, software
to be demonstrated to conference attendees must be licensed with a
recognized Open Source License (see http://www.opensource.org/
licenses/), and be available for download, including source code, by a
tar/zip file accessed through ftp/http or through a widely used
version control system like cvs, Subversion, git, Bazaar, or
Mercurial. Authors are advised that non-compliant submissions must be
revised to meet the requirement by June 21 at the latest, and in the
event that presentation slots run out, precedence is established by
the date they are first found in compliance, not the date of submission.