Hello all,

I am pleased to announce the Galactic Blog, a place for blogging about Galaxy and your experiences with it. The blog is on the Galaxy Hub and can be reached from the home page and the Hub's Community menu.

Our very first post is about the ELIXIR Galaxy Community and was written by Frederik Coppens, Gildas Le Corguillé, and Björn Grüning.  We have a few more posts lined up over the next week or so, but after that ...

The Galactic Blog needs you!  If you've done something that others would benefit from knowing about then please create a Galactic Blog post describing your experiences. See the CONTRIBUTING page. If you have questions, please let me know.

Blog posts can either be directly created in the Galactic Blog (and hosted on the Galaxy Hub), or can be posted on your favorite blogging platform (see, for example, Galactic Engineer) and linked to from the Galactic Blog. We'll tweet about every entry and highlight them in the monthly newsletter as well.

Finally, this was a team effort and I'd particularly like to thank Dannon Baker, Björn Grüning, and Martin Čech for their contributions.

I look forward to reading your blog posts!

Dave C

PS: The Galactic Blog replaces the former Community Log and includes all content from it (which is why, even though the blog is new, it includes entries back to 2013).

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