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Along with the annual BOSC (Bioinformatics Open Source Conference), the OBF (Open Bioinformatics Foundation) hosts a free and welcoming collaborative event called CollaborationFest (CoFest).

CoFest is a collaborative two-day working session. The only requirement for attendance is that you have an interest in open source software and solving scientific problems. We will have contributors to open source bioinformatics tools present to collaborate with, and we welcome new attendees who want to learn and contribute to open source code, documentation, workflows, or training.

This year CoFest is July 26-27 in Basel, Switzerland. There is no registration fee to attend in person or virtually.

Disclosure: I'm on the organizing committee for BOSC and CollaborationFest

[1] https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/collaborationfest/