Hello Galaxy India Team,

I am planning to visit India around the first week of December. I was wondering if we can meet (in person in Delhi / Chandigarh on 5th or 6th of December OR online) to discuss future plans. Anshu might be in India at that time and she has kindly agreed to organize a talk at IMTech, Chandigarh on December 5th or 6th. 

During the India visit, I have also requested a meeting with a researcher at ARI, Pune for an applied Microbiology project that might need the use of Galaxy. I have also requested a meeting with the researcher at Mumbai IIT for their plans for proteogenomics projects. I think for both these projects workflows hosted on Galaxy India server will be greatly useful. This will also bring in funding for the Galaxy India project. 

I am still finalizing my schedule but will keep you updated as plans are finalized. 

Waiting to hear from you.

With Regards,
Pratik

Pratik Jagtap,

Research Assistant Professor,

Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota.

Office: 7-136 MCB, 420 Washington Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-816-4232

Email: pjagtap@umn.edu

Shipping address: 6-155 Jackson Hall, 321 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455




On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 9:07 AM Harpreet Singh <harpreetsingh05@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Dave Clements,
Thanks for adding me in this mailing list.
Thanks Pratik for welcome.
I agree with Anshu and Pratik for their plans of launching Galaxy India community and it's further expansion.
I had an opportunity to personally meet Anshu at IMTECH a couple of years ago.
As IMTECH is relatively close to Jalandhar, I can easily help Anshu in implementing her plans and events related to GALAXY project. In fact we may also plan some workshop at my college in Jalandhar in the future.

I am also a board member (Treasurer) of Bioclues.org society, who has around 3000 members and a very large outreach among Indian Bioinformatics community. From last few years we have been conducting a brand conference series called Indian Conference on Bioinformatics (Inbix). Third edition of Inbox is planned at Shillong, North East of India in April 16-18, 2020.
In my point of view this conference  (Inbix) can be used as a very good platform to promote GALAXY Project. 
Also, if it suits to our plans, we can collaborate with Bioclues.org to make a very significant impact of GALAXY project in India.

looking forward to meet during INCOB19 at Jakarta.

Thanks & Best Regards,
Harpreet Singh



On Fri, 30 Aug 2019, 11:27 Dave Clements, <clements@galaxyproject.org> wrote:
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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