Hello all, The *October Galaxy News <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_10>* is hot off the presses and *upcoming events <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_10#events>* are prominent: - *Galaxy training contribution fest <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_10#Galaxy_training_contribution_fest.2C_6-7_October.2C_Online>*: October 6-7, Online - *Swiss-German Galaxy Days <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_10#Swiss-German_Galaxy_Days>*: October 20-21, Freiburg, Germany - *Galaxy & Hacktoberfest <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_10#Galaxy_.26_Hacktoberfest>*: Month of October, online - *Bioconda Contribution Fest <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_10#Conda.2C_Conda.2C_Conda.21>*: November 2-3, Online <https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/issues/2277> - *Galaxy Admin Training <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_10#Galaxy_Admin_Training.2C_November_7-11.2C_Salt_Lake_City.2C_Utah>*: November 7-11, Salt Lake City, Utah. - *On time registration ends October 16* - *Galaxy Australasia Meeting (GAMe 2017) <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_10#Galaxy_Australasia_Meeting_.28GAMe_2017.29:_Registration_.26_Abstract_Submission_are_Open>*: February 3-9, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. - *Registration and abstract submission are now open.* - And of course, other upcoming events <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_09#Other_upcoming_events> too There are also 117 new publications <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_10#New_Publications> (including six featured pubs), four open positions <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_10#Who.27s_Hiring>, two new public Galaxy servers and one new semi-public Galaxy service <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_10#Public_Galaxy_Server_News> , new releases of galaxy-lib & Planemo <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_10#Releases>, new TooShed contributions <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_10#ToolShed_Contributions>, and other news <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_10#Other_News> too. We hope to see you in Freiburg, Salt Lake, Melbourne, online, and around the world, Dave Clements and the Galaxy Team <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyTeam> -- http://galaxyproject.org/ http://getgalaxy.org/ http://usegalaxy.org/ https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/