PhyloStars/Planning And Meetings

September 11, 2013

• importance of building moment in order to reach critical mass at (or soon after) hackathon
• progress: before-and-after comparison
• need to show folks that phylostars is the fastest way to get a quality, custom answer
• example of r-sig-phylo as success story
  • mailing list created from NESCent hackathon
  • 960 people
  • 100-200 posts per month
  • includes people like JF who does not use R but likes to get involved in the theory issues

first meeting

• importance of having some high-quality tutorials
  • 2 pages
  • good tutorial can take a day to produce if you are familiar with the topic
• possibility of modifications of BioStars (Istvan)
• availability of history for purposes of before-after comparison