Hi all; There are some upcoming coding events and conferences of interest to open source biology programmers:

- BOSC/Broad Interoperability Hackathon -- This is a two day coding session at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, MA on April 7-8 focused on improving tool interoperability.

Sign up and details: http://j.mp/XJT6ew

- SciPy 2013 -- The Scientific Python conference is June 26-27 in Austin and has a Bioinformatics mini-symposia this year. They're doing some great work like IPython, NumPy, SciPy and scikit-learn; and this is a nice opportunity to reach a new set of like minded programmers and expand the open source bioinformatics community.

Bioinformatics mini-symposia: http://j.mp/Z4xxXB Abstract details: http://conference.scipy.org/scipy2013/about.php

- Codefest at the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference -- This year BOSC is taking place in Berlin from July 19-20 and we'll have a two day coding session before the conference. This is the 4th year of Codefests and they've proven to be a productive and fun time to work collectively on open source projects.

Sign up and details: http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Codefest_2013 BOSC conference: http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2013

Here are the key dates for the events and abstracts:

March 20, 2013: SciPy abstracts due April 7-8, 2013: BOSC/Broad Interoperability Hackathon, Cambridge, MA April 12, 2013: BOSC abstracts due June 24-29, 2013: SciPy in Austin, TX July 17-18, 2013: Codefest 2013, Berlin July 19-20, 2013: BOSC 2013, Berlin

Looking forward to seeing everyone this spring and summer for plenty of fun science and code, Brad