WBConfCall 2016.01.07-Agenda and Minutes

Agenda

1. SAB schedule

Submitted by Kevin
http://wiki.wormbase.org/index.php/2016_Advisory_Board_Meeting#Organisation_of_SAB_talks

2. WormBase exhibit at the Dev., Cell Bio and Gene Expression Meeting

Submitted by Chris

Anne Marie Mahoney wants to know if we're interested in having a booth at
the Orlando meeting in July:
http://www.genetics2016.org/exhibits/exhibits
It looks like the cost is $3,000 USD for an 8'x10' non-profit exhibit
space. Do we have any definitive plans for attending this conference? I
would like to attend and am happy to represent WormBase.

Reply from Todd

We should certainly have people attending and presenting at this meeting.
Various Intermine groups (probably including WormMine) will be presenting as a consortia. It makes sense for WormBase to be there, too. Whether or not we need an exhibit space probably hinges on what we will present and how many are attending.
We could always be creative and organize things like WormBase breakfast/lunch/dinner meet ups although it is hard gather too many people around a lap top.
I know I'd be happy if you help organize the WormBase contingent.

3. Discussion topic about data submission forms

Submitted by Paul D.

Should we have a more centralised place or have some form of webforwarding for the user submission forms rather than exposing the machine and username of one of the WormBase Caltech staff?
The following is used as the root of most/all user submission forms.
http://tazendra.caltech.edu/~azurebrd/cgi-bin/forms/

Reply from Jauncarlos

We've had the forms on tazendra ~azurebrd since 2001 (tazendra was minerva at the time, until 03 or 04) and haven't had any problems, so I'm okay with leaving things as they are (if the issue is the safety and privacy of my account and machine).
A lot of the forms interact with the local postgreSQL server directly, and for speed and potential network issues, it's nice that they're in the same machine. If we wanted to move things to a different centralised place for user submission, we could, but I don't know where it would be, and how much benefit we'd get from it. If someone wants to pilot that, I could move some non-postgreSQL forms and see how that works.

4. WS252 on staging

Submitted by Todd

WS252 is now available (again) on staging.wormbase.org for testing.
http://staging.wormbase.org/