Hello all,

We are pleased to announce that the *2016 Galaxy Community Conference website is now online http://gcc2016.iu.edu/* and includes registration information http://gcc2016.iu.edu/registration/index.php and the full training schedule https://gcc16.sched.org/grid-full#2016-06-26.

GCC2016 http://gcc2016.iu.edu/ will be held June 25-29 at Indiana University http://indiana.edu/ in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. This will be the 7th annual gathering of the Galaxy community, and we are expecting over 200 participants again this year.

Registration information http://gcc2016.iu.edu/registration/index.php includes the different registration packages, rates, and deadlines. Our inexpensive early registration rates start at less than $40 per day for students and post-docs.

Registration will open within a month.

The training schedule https://gcc16.sched.org/grid-full#2016-06-26 includes session descriptions, prerequisites, and instructors. Many thanks to everyone who nominated and voted on topics, and especially to the many instructors https://gcc16.sched.org/directory/artists who are contributing their time and effort to make GCC2016 a success.

Thanks also go to the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI) https://pti.iu.edu/, who are supporting GCC2016 as a *Platinum Sponsor https://gcc2016.iu.edu/sponsors/index.php*. PTI is home to the National Center for Genome Analysis Support http://ncgas.org/ (for which NSF funding was recently renewed https://itnews.iu.edu/articles/2015/iu-genome-analysis-center-wins-national-science-foundation-funding-renewal.php), and the Galaxy Trinity instance https://galaxy.ncgas-trinity.indiana.edu/root, and is a long time supporter of the Galaxy Community. PTI pairs fundamental academic computational research with the widely known strengths of Indiana University through innovations and service delivery in networking and high performance computing. See the PTI website http://pti.iu.edu/ for more information.

We continue to seek other sponsors as well and offer a wide range of sponsorship plans https://gcc2016.iu.edu/sponsors/index.php. If your organization is interested in having a presence at GCC2016, please contact the GCC2016 Exec gcc2016-exec@lists.galaxyproject.org for more information.

Hope to see you in Bloomington!

The GCC2016 Exec gcc2016-exec@lists.galaxyproject.org