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