[BBF Standards] BioHackathon, or Characterization Challenge

[Jason Kelly]

A design-a-thon prior to the start of iGEM might be a good addendum to
one of the teach-the-teachers workshops.  One of the big struggles for
each of the iGEM teams is the "what should we work on" quesiton, and a
common mistake is picking something really unreasonable and then
spinning wheels for most of the summer.

Something like a design-a-thon attended by past iGEM alpha-hackers
along with advisers/teachers/team members from the new teams might be
a great way to exchange and vet ideas before the summer starts.  i
think most teams would trade "competitive edge" for "possible chance
of building something that works" and happily exchange ideas in the
open.

The other thing that's nice about this is that iGEM teams are actually
going to go DO something for the summer.  I'm hesitant to have a
design-a-thon w/ a bunch of folks who then don't have the spare cycles
to actually go implement any of the designs.

also we're going to need stuff like this to actually hash out
standards, imo, so maybe not too off-topic.

thanks,
jason

On Feb 11, 2008 9:18 AM, Drew Endy <endy at mit.edu> wrote:
> I think that iGEM consuming Summer of Code is more likely.  Or, at
> least infecting SoC.  (wow, this is really off topic for a mailing
> list discussing standards for BioBrick standard biological parts).
>
>
> On Feb 11, 2008, at 7:51 AM, Bryan Bishop wrote:
>
> > On Monday 11 February 2008, Raik Gruenberg wrote:
> >> And then there is Google's "summer of code" where many projects are
> >> attacked independently but in parallel over one or two months. But
> >> that's what iGem already does (and better), isn't it?
> >
> > Summer of Code might need to consume iGem. Just saying -- it's good
> > exposure that Google is giving to freelancers out there. You can't
> > quite freelance biotech yet in the same way, but maybe soon.
> >
> > - Bryan
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