[Bio-linux-list] The reports of Bio-Linux's death are greatly exaggerated

[Andreas Leimbach]

Hi Tony,

thanks a lot for your efforts for keeping BioLinux alive! It's a 
fantastic project, although Bioconda, linuxbrew etc. are becoming more 
and more interesting alternatives for certain applications.

Sadly, I'm not that knowledgeable in funding, but for me BioLinux 
definitely falls under the topic Open Science (OS). Thus, there might be 
money to support dev in the current OS environment of funding agencies. 
What about EU projects like Horizon 2020 that support OS?

https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm

How is Debian Med funded?

Maybe the OKFN (https://science.okfn.org/) or Mozilla Science Lab 
(https://science.mozilla.org/) have ideas how to tap funding agencies? 
They should have mailing lists for asking such a question. After all 
BioLinux is definitely mostly used by university affiliated researchers.

Just my 2 cents ...

Best,
Andreas


On 02/18/2017 04:55 PM, Tony Travis wrote:
> On 13/02/17 17:56, Brian Cady wrote:
>> Tony and all,
>>
>> Could we crowdfund, at $25 each, the building of BioLinux 9?
>
> Hi, Brian.
>
> I have thought about crowd-funding, but I think this should be a method
> of last resort if we can't get funding any other way because one of the
> founding principles of Bio-Linux is that it can be distributed freely.
>
>> How many are on this listserv?
>
> You can see the membership list here:
>
>> http://www.bioinformatics.org/mm/roster/bio-linux-list
>
> There are 307 list subscribers at present...
>
> One idea that might make a small amount of money would be for me to sell
> the "Minke-Informatics" branded 8GB Bio-Linux 8 USB-sticks that I use
> for Bio-Linux courses (see image attached) for $25 (£20) + postage.
>
> If anyone wants to buy one or more of these Bio-Linux 8 USB-sticks to
> help support the development of Bio-Linux, then please send a Stamped
> Addressed Envelope to the address in my signature below and payment of
> £20 or $25 (plus postage if the envelope is not stamped) by PayPal to my
> email address below.
>
> I'll post a tutorial about how to upgrade these Bio-Linux 8 USB-sticks
> to Bio-Linux 9 in due course.
>
> Bye,
>
>   Tony.
>
>
>
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