Organization team (so far)

• Gary Bader
• Chris Workman
• Francis Ouellette

2008 retreat theme: community outreach - developers and users

Logistics

• Retreat will be held July 16-19
• Location: Toronto, CCBR building, University of Toronto
• Main room: Red Room - capacity:~80 people
• Breakout room 1/lunch room: Black Room - capacity:~20 people + conference table
• Breakout room 2: 6th floor conference room - capacity: ~20 people + conference table

TODO

• Finalize CCBR room booking and room capacity numbers
• Decide on registration fee (free for students) and set up eventbrite.
• Develop funding request package and approach potential funders
• Create schedule
  • Cytoscape 3.0 design discussions
  • Application/plugin showcase day
  • User/developer tutorial
• Get information about meals
• Plan social events
• Wireless internet access in all rooms
• Submit demo and BOF request to ISMB organizers
• Solicit showcase day presentations - enough material to create abstract book online

Survey results

• 31 respondents
• 73.3% of people favored July 16-19, 20% July 19-22 and 30% Juley 23-26
• 87.1% requested an application/plugin showcase day; 58.1% social activities for community building; 35.5% - user tutorial part of ISMB; 19.4% user tutorial not part of ISMB; 71% developer tutorials; 74.2% user discussion sessions to identify and prioritize desired Cytoscape features
• 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