[ome-users] OME User's Meeting

[Jason Swedlow]

Hello All-

I am writing to you on behalf of the OME group at the University of  
Dundee.  Many of you have devoted your own resources to working with  
OME software and are seriously working on the image data management  
question from various angles.  As part of our efforts to develop a  
community of people devoted to solving this problem, we are going to  
have two  meetings of OME users and developers.  One will be held to  
coincide with the San Francisco ASCB meeting in December  2005 (more  
about that in a separate email, but most likely Dec 11, 7:30 -  
10pm).  However, we would also like to hold a meeting to support our  
community in Europe.  We want to hold this in Dundee,  Dec 1-2, 2005.

The goals of the meeting are to enumerate:

-- what the OME project is
-- what the released software is all about
-- where the project is going. 

This last point is the most important, so we need to hear from you  
about what you want and need to support your own image informatics  
efforts.  As you might imagine, there is lots going on in and we are  
working hard to improve the way our system installs and works.  Many  
of you are devoting your own resources to the project, so this will  
be a chance to synchronise efforts and to better define and  
communicate the various ongoing and upcoming activities.  We will  
focus the meeting on OME, but we are also happy to include  
presentations from any of you who are working on image informatics  
solutions and want to share your thoughts or work.

We very much want to hear from you about what you need as developers/ 
major users.  While we believe we have some idea of the requirements  
of the system, we need to know what we need to do to improve the  
tools we provide.  We also want to hear what we can do to improve the  
way we work with the community.

We are still drafting the program, but we expect one day about OME  
and any other existing solutions is, and one day focussed on what OME  
should be.

Sadly, we have no resources to pay your travel or other costs (we are  
trying to get more funding, but no promises).  We will provide  
transport from Edinburgh airport (for those of you flying in) and  
lunches on both days.  The meeting will be free.

We will provide info on hotels etc in the next couple of days.  Also,  
announcement for the ASCB OME Meeting will follow shortly.

Cheers,

Jason




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