Happy Holidays all! A couple of reminders before 2019 arrives: - *Galaxy Admin Training <https://galaxyproject.org/events/2019-admin-training/>*, January 28-February 1. Learn best practices for installing and supporting your own Galaxy service. Split into a 2-day intro session, and a 3 day advanced session. *Advance registration ends December 31, and then rates go up by, um, a lot. Register by Monday.* - *GCC2019 Training Topic Nominations <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2018-12-gcc2019-training-nomination/> end 31 December! * Nominated topics will be voted on by the community in January. Topics nominated thus far are here <https://galaxyproject.org/events/gcc2019/training/#training-topic-nominat...;. Please nominate new topics here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fBPjEmw7Td52rhBnC0SvflnQCD7Ue5IMJ9RkM0Sj...;, and if you want to expand on existing nominations <https://galaxyproject.org/events/gcc2019/training/#training-topic-nominat... you can edit the hub directly, or send the edits to me. (Note: I suspect, but don't know, that we'll extend this deadline into early January.) - *GalaxyAdmins meetups <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2018-12-galaxy-admins/>* will resume in 2019 <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2018-12-galaxy-admins/>;. If you have ideas for meetup topics, please nominate them <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfv257YcdQQO7gp3K4USoBzqkd-UDEbl... . - We need your project ideas for *Google Summer of Code 2019* <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfv257YcdQQO7gp3K4USoBzqkd-UDEbl.... *Please add your project ideas to the proposal, either directly on this page <http://gmod.org/wiki/GSOC_Project_Ideas_2019> (requires an account), of via this online form <http://bit.ly/gsoc-2019-ogi-propose>;. Finally, for those of you not on Twitter, I can't resist sharing this post from Martin Čech <https://twitter.com/martenson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtime... . See you in the new year, Dave C [image: 2018-12-26_12-01-57-martins-tree.png] -- https://galaxyproject.org/ https://usegalaxy.org/