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GCC2018: Call for Host Proposals
by Dave Clements 27 Sep '16

27 Sep '16

Hello all, The Galaxy Community Conference has been held annually since 2010. *GCC2017* <https://gcc2017.sciencesconf.org/> will be held 26-30 June in Montpellier, France. *We are now seeking proposals <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Documents?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=G…> from organizations interested in hosting GCC2018.* GCC alternates every year between meeting in North America, and meeting outside North America. Hosts for GCC2018 need to be located in North America. GCC draws 200+ participants from data-intensive life science research. Participants come from around the world, from all career stages, and do research spanning the tree of life. Universities, hospitals and medical schools, research organizations, and industry are all represented, including some of the largest and most influential research organizations in the world. What do you need to host GCC2018? In approximately decreasing order of importance: - *Enthusiasm to plan and organize several events over several days for more than 200 people. * - Space for 4-6 parallel training sessions, with each space able to accommodate 25 to 75 participants. - Central meeting space with capacity for 250-300 people. - Affordability (or access to sponsorship funds) - Nearby space for breakouts, poster sessions and sponsors. - Nearby space for lunch, coffee breaks. - Good wifi for all events (that's 200+ people and their devices). - Space for hackathons for 2 days - Easy to get to by air. - Nearby, affordable housing, or easy walking distance or easy public transport from lodging options to conference facilities - Close proximity to a pub and other social hubs. Hosts get copious (and enthusiastic) organizational support from Galaxy's Outreach Team (who have been helping to organize GCC since 2011), and even more copious gratitude from the Galaxy Community. You also get to highlight your institution to the Galaxy Community. See the *full call for host proposals <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Documents?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=G…>* for more details on what should be covered in proposals. *Proposals are due on November 30, 2016*. If you are interested in possibly hosting GCC2018 then please contact Dave Clements with any questions. Our goal is to announce GCC2018 at GCC2017 this coming June. Hoping to work with you in 2018! Dave Clements and the Galaxy Team -- http://galaxyproject.org/ http://getgalaxy.org/ http://usegalaxy.org/ https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/

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Galaxy Admin Training: November 7-11, Salt Lake City
by Dave Clements 12 Sep '16

12 Sep '16

Hello all, *Early registration <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/AdminTraining2016/Registration> for Galaxy Admin Training 2016 <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/AdminTraining2016> ends in one week, on Monday, September 19.* Galaxy Admin Training 2016 <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/AdminTraining2016> is a weeklong event offering basic and advanced sessions. It will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, November 7-11, 2016, the week before Supercomputing 16 (SC16) <http://sc16.supercomputing.org/> meets in Salt Lake. These workshops are aimed at admins from organizations and labs that are installing, upgrading, or prototyping Galaxy instances. *Basics Session: November 7-8* <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/AdminTraining2016/BasicsSession> This two day basics session <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/AdminTraining2016/BasicsSession> will introduce participants to what you need to know to get a Galaxy server up and running on a standalone server. You'll also learn how to extend your Galaxy with your own tools and tools from the community, and how to define reference data in your server. *Advanced Session: November 9-11* <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/AdminTraining2016/AdvancedSession> The three day advanced session <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/AdminTraining2016/AdvancedSession> will build on topics covered in the basics section <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/AdminTraining2016/BasicsSession>. This session both extends those topics, such as tool definition, and adds new ones, such as working with compute clusters and heterogeneous resources. The goal of the advanced workshop is to enable Galaxy administrators to create robust, high-performance Galaxy instances that take full advantage of available tools and compute and storage resources. Galaxy Admin Training 2016 is hosted by the University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) <http://www.chpc.utah.edu/>, the USTAR Center for Genetic Discovery (UCGD) <http://ucgd.genetics.utah.edu/>, Department of Biomedical Informatics <http://medicine.utah.edu/dbmi/> and the Clinical & Translational Science Biomedical Informatics Core (CCTS BMIC) <http://medicine.utah.edu/ccts/bmic/> at the University of Utah <http://utah.edu/>. We hope to see you in Salt Lake! The Galaxy Team <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyTeam> PS: Please share this flier <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/AdminTraining2016/Publicity> with any individuals or groups who might be interested in this event. -- http://galaxyproject.org/ http://getgalaxy.org/ http://usegalaxy.org/ https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/

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September 2016 Galactic News
by Dave Clements 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

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