Dear Dave Clements,
Thanks for your prompt reply ans motivation. 
I know its Christmas time and it will be difficult to travel during that period. But your, support and motivation will also be of great help for us, especially Sonika to make a great impact by training the participants on GALAXY during this event. 
I will discuss and let you know for what purpose we are looking forward for funding. Bur for sure, it will not be for catering, conference rooms, eatables etc.

Thanks and Best Regards,
Harpreet Singh

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 11:21 PM Dave Clements <clementsgalaxy@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Harpreet, all,

Thanks for the good news about InSyb2019.  This is a good opportunity to showcase Galaxy, and I am glad to hear that Sonika will be there.

Unfortunately, I am very pessimistic about convincing anyone else from the US, European, or Australian teams to travel to India that close to Christmas.  So, I don't think we will get anyone else to help Sonika for this event.  On the plus side, one of US Galaxy PIs (Anton Nekrutenko, if I remember correctly) is actually eager to travel to India at some point.  This means that if schedules were to work out, then we might be able to get him to India for a Galaxy India launch at some point next year.

And I am only a little pessimistic about getting funding to support this event, so that may actually be possible. :-)  What would the funding be used for, and how much would we be asking for?  I know from past experience that asking for funds for travel fellowships is more likely to get approved, then say, funding for conference rooms or catering.

Cheers,
Dave C

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 8:42 AM Harpreet Singh <harpreetsingh05@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear All,
Hope you all are fine and enjoying good health!.
It has been long since we shared emails.
I am writing this email to share an important opportunity with you.
My institute is going to host International Symposium on Bioinformatics 2019 (InSyb2019) from 21st to 22nd December, 2019 in collaboration with APBioNet at Jalandhar, Punjab, India.
I believe that this is a great opportunity to showcase Galaxy Platform to the participants. I will be happy if someone from Galaxy community leaders can joins us during this two day event, particularly for the second day, dedicated to workshops.
Sonika is already coming to grace this occasion and it will be great if one more team member can join her to make the workshop more . Also, it will be a great help if we can get some funding from GALAXY Community for this event.
Kindly let me know if it is feasible for some spare some resource person and/or funding for this event.

Thanks & Best Regards
Harpreet Singh



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