The August Galactic News is out. It's been a busy two months for the community. The News includes items on:

• Events:

  • A report on the 2015 Galaxy Community Conference

  • Details on the 2016 Galaxy Community Conference

  • August GalaxyAdmins Meetup

  • July Pitagora-Galaxy Meetup

  • Other upcoming events

• News of the, well, new:

  • 143 new papers, including 16 highlighted papers (this is what happens when you skip a month)

  • NGS 101 Tutorial Videos are Now Online

  • Genomic Data Science with Galaxy Launched on Coursera

  • Who's Hiring

  • 5 new public Galaxy servers (did I mention that we skipped a month?)

  • Community Committers!

  • 3 new Community Log Board entries, and 2 new teaching resources

  • New Releases of BioBlend and Planemo

  • 76 Tool Shed updates and additions from 20+ contributors

  • And, of course other news as well.

Dave Clements and the Galaxy Team

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