Successful NOBUGS conference
From 3-5 November 2008, over 80 scientists and computer scientists, from around the world converged on Cronulla for the 7th NOBUGS (New Opportunities for Better User Group Software) conference. It was a truly international event with 11% of the participants coming from Asia, 30% from Europe, 20% from the USA and 39% from Australia.
NOBUGS is a series of conferences intended to foster collaboration for developers of fast and user-friendly software for data acquisition, data reduction and data analysis in scientific instrumentation, especially as employed at large-scale user facilities, like neutron sources and synchrotrons. All in all the quality of the presentations and material presented was very good. NOBUGS 2008 was unique in that way that the conference was briefly interrupted to watch the Melbourne Cup.