= Organization team (so far) =
 * Gary Bader
 * Chris Workman
 * Francis Ouellette
2008 retreat theme: community outreach - developers and users

The public Cytoscape Retreat 2008 page is at CytoscapeRetreat2008  This is the internal planning page.

= Logistics =
 * Retreat will be held July 16-19
 * Location: Toronto, CCBR building, University of Toronto
 * Main room: Red Room - capacity:~90 people (max 100 if needed)
 * Breakout room 1/lunch room: Black Room - capacity:~20 people + conference table

= Schedule DRAFT =

== Technical session ==
 * July 15 (Tuesday)
  * Pre-meeting core developer Cytoscape 3.0 design discussions (if necessary)
  * Social event in evening for early arrivals (A)
 * July 16 (Wednesday)
  * Audience: Mainly Cytoscape software developers
  * Technical brainstorm, software design session
  * Dinner event (B)

== User session ==
 * July 17 (Thursday)
  * Audience: All Cytoscape users and developers
  * Application showcase day.
   * Developers will showcase interesting new features they are building for Cytoscape
   * Users will present interesting new uses of Cytoscape
  * User community dinner (C)
 * July 18 (Friday)
  * Audience: All Cytoscape users and developers
  * User tutorial (morning parallel session)
  * Developer tutorials (morning parallel session)
  * User brainstorm and user meeting
   * Identify usability issues, request new features
   * Evolution game - problems people are having (gaps in workflows), find the common workflows and questions people want to ask.
   * Bring your data and speak to the experts.
   * Between plugin coordination issues: naming attributes, standards in event handling.  Split people into groups - plugin writers vs. users. Goals: get plugins writers together to coordinate. Breakout session for plugin writers.
   * Scribes: assign roles
   * Wiki: expand each schedule item to its own page.
   * Book discussion: assign chapter leads
   * Cytoscape plugin developer users
   * Prepare materials in advance
   * Video recording of user tutorials. Adobe connect. Hire AV hire - find out how much that costs (Apple computer? Podcast producer?)
  * Wine and cheese (D)
  * Social event e.g. city tour, museum (E)
 * July 19 (Saturday)
  * Audience: Users and developers interested in Cytoscape development
  * Feature prioritization for Cytoscape 3.0.
   * Expect lots of technical discussion.
  * Dinner on own (core developer dinner event) (F)

= ISMB TODO =
 * BOF: "bring your data" and speak to the experts. Plan agenda before.
 * Demo: Wodak, etc. (organize agenda at the retreat)

= TODO =
 * Add details to schedule (ongoing)
  * Cytoscape 3.0 design discussions - intro sessions on specific technology.
  * Application/plugin showcase day
  * User/developer tutorial
 * Plan SAB meeting (Chris Workman)
 * Plan board meeting (Gary)
 * Submit demo and BOF request to ISMB organizers (done)
  * BOF submitted: Network and pathway visualization and analysis, waiting for assigned day
 * Solicit showcase day presentations - enough material to create abstract book online
  * As of Jun.19, almost 15 presentations have been submitted.
 * Plan Wed.July.23 morning ISMB session.
  * TODO: send 100 words to Shoshana Wodak
  * 2 hours
  * People that will be around:
   * Piet Molenaar, Alex Pico, Gary Bader, Wodak lab, Scooter Morris
 * ISMB Conflicts:
  * Scooter's tutorial is Saturday, July 19 morning
  * BOSC July 18-19.  Kei interested in presenting. http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2008
 * TODO: Find out how much money we have for travel fellowships and set up a committee for making decisions about that.

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= Agenda requests =

== Wednesday, July 16, technical session, agenda requests ==

== Application showcase day presenter requests - July 17th ==
 * Barbara Mirel, UMich - afternoon, 10 minutes
 * Sarah Killcoyne, ISB
 * Allan Kuchinsky, Agilent - 5-10 minutes (cancelled)
 * David States - Michigan and NCIBI - 10 minutes
 * Scooter Morris, UCSF

== Friday, July 18, user day ==
 * Cytoscape book discussion, afternoon (AllanK)

== Saturday, July 19, prioritization day ==

== Board meeting ==
 * New secretary/treasurer (Annette)
 * Cytoscape book - what's the goal? (Annette)

Attendees:
 * Trey
 * Gary
 * Annette
 * Alex (in lieu of Bruce)
 * Benno
 * Chris

no
 * Ilya
 * Bruce

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Cytostaff Saturday dinner attendees:
yes
 * Gary Bader
 * Allan Kuchinsky
 * Alex Pico
 * Trey Ideker
 * Piet Molenaar
 * Daniel Abel
 * Scooter Morris
 * Maital Ashkenazi
 * Chris Sander
 * Noel Ruddock
 * Yeyejide Adeleye

no
 * Mike Smoot (flying out at 7pm)
 * Sarah Killcoyne (flying out at 6pm)
 * Peng-Liang Wang

= Survey results =
 * 31 respondents
 * Dates favored for the event:
  * 73% July 16-19
  * 30% July 23-26
  * 20% July 19-22
 * Event content requests:
  * 87% requested an application/plugin showcase day
  * 74% user discussion sessions to identify and prioritize desired Cytoscape features
  * 71% developer tutorials
  * 58% social activities for community building
  * 36% user tutorial part of ISMB
  * 19% user tutorial not part of ISMB
 * Respondent comments:
  * Prioritization after application showcase day;
  * Discuss systems for profiling usage patterns and collecting user feedback;
  * BOF discussion at ISMB in addition to retreat;
  * One core developer discussion day not public;
  * Formal usability studies;
  * Usage showcase - more than a basic tutorial, presenting a complete workflow and not by plugin developers;
  * cyto3.0 design discussions;
  * Code sprints to focus development on needed areas;
  * Would be nice if developer events were contiguous instead of being split around the application showcase