This January in San Diego is the annual Plant and Animal Genomes (PAG) meeting (
http://www.intlpag.org). As in previous PAGs, there will be several opportunities to present content related to GMOD projects. If you are interested in attending PAG and giving a talk at the GMOD workshop on Wednesday, January 17, please let me know. Your talk can either be about new developments/functionality in existing GMOD software, about how your organization is using the suite of GMOD software to good effect, or about technologies that you think the GMOD community would be interested in hearing about. Please email me directly with a title, an abstract or a vague idea of what you'd like to talk about.
Also, if you'd really like to come but are having a hard time coming up with travel funds, please let me know, I might be able to help you with that too (up to a limit of one person anyway).