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As part of graduation from incubator status with DuraSpace, the VIVO Project needs to grow our base of committers and contributors, defined as people who submit new code, bug fixes, documentation, sample data, tests, ontology changes, applications such as the Harvester that generate VIVO RDF from other sources, apps and visualizations that use VIVO data, and tools that make any part of creating and sustaining your VIVO easier. We see another hackathon building on Chris and Ted's March, 2014 Hackathon at Duke as a good way to encourage involvement as well as to make progress on a number of fronts, collectively and individually.
This is a big tent, but VIVO has been open since the first days that Chris Barnes and his UF development team pushed to get our code in SourceForge. Now we're a VIVO project on GitHub, a wiki, and there are lots of tools from our community and friends of our community such as the Karma project at the USC Information Sciences Institute.
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Logistics
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| TransportationAirlines | Ithaca, NY is hard to get to – it's a small airport served (fortunately) by 3 carriers, but ticket costs are higher than you might expect. It's just 10 minutes from downtown so very convenient when you arrive, however. Look for flights via Philadelphia (US Airways/American), Newark (United), or Detroit (Delta). Be ready for the last leg to be on a small plane – sometimes a prop plane. | |
| Alternative airports | Syracuse is a good 1 hour and 15 minute drive north and a little east of Ithaca. Airfares are sometimes moderately and sometimes dramatically cheaper to Syracuse, but you have to use a service such as the Ithaca Airline Limousine that costs $85 one way or $130 round trip, plus has limited trips per day. If you can coordinate your arrivals with others, options like Executive Limousine and Sedan or Superior Limousine may offer a discounted group rate, or renting a car is an option (though parking on Cornell's campus is about $10/day) Elmira has surprisingly good air service (direct flights to/from Chicago) and is often cheaper than Ithaca for Delta flights. The same shuttle/limo options should apply Binghamton may be worth investigating but is likely less of a deal; Rochester is more like a 2 hour drive, but you could rent a car | |