Re: INCOB 2019 Galaxy India Report
by Nuwan Goonasekera
Hi,
It was really great meeting everyone and great to see the Galaxy community
gaining momentum in India. I've got in contact with some folks from the
University of Colombo in Sri Lanka, and they too have expressed an interest
in participating in these regional efforts. At present, the community in
Sri Lanka is somewhat nascent, so they may play more of an observational
role, but in future, perhaps the community can grow to contribute
additional resources to this effort. If that sounds ok at this stage, I can
loop them into the conversation.
cheers,
/Nuwan
On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 11:37 PM Dave Clements <clements(a)galaxyproject.org>
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> INCOB (and GOBLET) ran last week in Jakarta. Harpreet was able to make
> it, and was actually pretty prominent, moderating several sessions and
> presenting a talk. Galaxy was also pretty prominent at both GOBLET and
> INCOB. Here's the report.
>
> QFAB (Gareth's organization) and the Galaxy Training Network both renewed
> our *GOBLET *memberships and both groups expect to have a more prominent
> role in the coming year. Not yet sure what form that involvement will take.
>
> There were actually 4 Galaxy-related events on the program at INCOB.
> (There was an EpiMOLAS <https://galaxyproject.org/use/docmethyl/> talk
> that I had missed.) The talk by Gareth, the workshop (almost all Simon),
> and the breakout (Dave, Gareth, Nuwan, Farhan Sjaugi (Malaysia), Harpreet,
> and Asif) were all successes (in my not so humble opinion). There was a
> great deal of interest in Galaxy, and in regional Galaxies especially. We
> are likely to see Galaxy ASEAN and Galaxy Korea communities come out of
> INCOB 2019.
>
> Harpreet had extensive conversations with Simon, Dave, Gareth, and Nuwan.
> For my part, I promised to absolutely support events and community efforts
> in India in any way that I and the US team can.
>
> Gareth, Nuwan, Simon *and especially Harpreet*: It would be great to hear
> what your impressions were.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave C
>
> --
> https://galaxyproject.org/
>
4 months, 1 week
INCOB 2019 Galaxy India Report
by Dave Clements
Hello all,
INCOB (and GOBLET) ran last week in Jakarta. Harpreet was able to make it,
and was actually pretty prominent, moderating several sessions and
presenting a talk. Galaxy was also pretty prominent at both GOBLET and
INCOB. Here's the report.
QFAB (Gareth's organization) and the Galaxy Training Network both renewed
our *GOBLET *memberships and both groups expect to have a more prominent
role in the coming year. Not yet sure what form that involvement will take.
There were actually 4 Galaxy-related events on the program at INCOB. (There
was an EpiMOLAS <https://galaxyproject.org/use/docmethyl/> talk that I had
missed.) The talk by Gareth, the workshop (almost all Simon), and the
breakout (Dave, Gareth, Nuwan, Farhan Sjaugi (Malaysia), Harpreet, and
Asif) were all successes (in my not so humble opinion). There was a great
deal of interest in Galaxy, and in regional Galaxies especially. We are
likely to see Galaxy ASEAN and Galaxy Korea communities come out of INCOB
2019.
Harpreet had extensive conversations with Simon, Dave, Gareth, and Nuwan.
For my part, I promised to absolutely support events and community efforts
in India in any way that I and the US team can.
Gareth, Nuwan, Simon *and especially Harpreet*: It would be great to hear
what your impressions were.
Thanks,
Dave C
--
https://galaxyproject.org/
4 months, 1 week
Please welcome Sonika Tyagi and Harpreet Singh
by Dave Clements
Hello all,
*Introductions and limit?*
Please Welcome
Sonika Tyagi, Monash University, Melbourne
Harpreet Singh, Head of Bioinformatics, HMV Jalandhar, Punjab
To the Galaxy India planning group. I will let them introduce themselves
(I have known Sonika electronically for 3 years, but I don't think I have
ever met either of them in person.
And that puts us at 8 people on 4 continents, 6 of us with ties to India,
and two of us from the core Galaxy Project. *I suggest that 8 is a good
number for this core group and that we resist further increasing our size
beyond that.*
And, I encourage everyone to introduce themselves as well. I'll start.
I help coordinate training and outreach for the Galaxy Project, and have
been doing this for 8 years. Before that I did the same for the GMOD
Project. I'm a computer person by training, and I first stumbled into
bioinformatics in 2000. *I have no particular knowledge of India.*
https://galaxyproject.org/people/dave-clements/
Now, I'll try to summarize what's been going on. (Please add in whatever I
forget.)
*Online Community First*
We are planning to start as an online community first, with a Twitter
account (got it), mailing list (probably this one after we clear out these
early emails), and a Gitter channel (easy). We have not decided when to
launch / announce all this.
*Connections*
Anshu Bhardwaj (OSDD + more) has suggested linking any training with the
Skills India Program, and coordinating any launch we did with Nature India.
*Events Next*
Anshu and Pratik Jagtap (Galaxy-P + more) have been discussing a possible
workshop-meeting in India in 2020, possibly at CSIR-IMTECH, and possibly
focusing on proteomics. We also have Glory Basumata at IIT Guwahati, so
that may be an option too. This event (or events) may be a good opportunity
/ time to launch the community. We could also launch a training program
and/or coordinate training efforts in India.
*Funding And Stability*
Funding assures that this effort continues, and that someone somewhere is
being paid to coordinate things. I don't know anything about funding in
India, but you all do. :-)
In the short term, Mo Heydarian (Galaxy + more) and I can probably convince
our funders to support participant scholarships for any events. We can
also try valiantly to get a Galaxy PI to a launch event (but we can't
guarantee it).
No matter what the funding picture is, Mo and I will provide maximum
promotion, just like we do now for other communities
*Platform?*
In the long term we may want to support a UseGalaxy.in platform. Kiran
Telukunta (U Freiburg + more) already owns the URL. :-) I argue that this
should be pursued last as it will need funding, maintenance, and staff.
Harpreet might be coming to INCOB where we will be discussing how to build
regional communities.* So this goal may end up moving faster than I expect
it to.
And, as always I have typed too much.
Cheers everyone,
Dave C
* Out breakout proposal was approved by INCOB. We may very well succeed in
starting an international regional community at INCOB.
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https://galaxyproject.org/
4 months, 2 weeks