Hello all,

The March 2018 Galaxy News brings more news than usual, with much of it about upcoming meetings, including GCCBOSC, and continental meetings in Europe and Africa.

• Lots of GCCBOSC 2018 news:
  • Abstract submission, registration & housing are open
    • Oral presentation abstracts due March 16
  • Training Schedule set
    • 17 topics in 22 sessions over two days covering the full spectrum of open source bioinformatics
  • We are pleased to announce two of the keynote speakers:
    • Fernando Pérez, of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, University of California Berkeley and Project Jupyter
    • Tracy K. Teal, of the Carpentries and the Journal for Open Scource Software
  • Sponsors:
    • F1000Research
    • Technology Association of Oregon
    • Call for sponsors
• Continental community meetings:
  • Europe, 14-16 March, Freiburg
  • Africa, 3-5 April, Cape Town
    • Apply for a Conference Fellowship by 10 March.
• Upcoming events (on four continents)
• New:
  • Galactic Blog post from Arun Decano: Coding in the Winter Wonderland: Galaxy Admin Training
  • 133 publications (including 5 highlighted ones)
  • Openings in 6 groups on 2 continents
  • Public Galaxy Server News (a new server and two updated ones)
  • ToolShed contributions
  • Releases of Planemo, Pulsar, and galaxy-lib.
• And other news too

See the newsletter for more. 

Hope to see you in Freiburg, Cape Town, and Portland!

Dave C

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