Hello all,We are now definitely 60% of the way (and possibly 80%) of the way to a pooled GOBLET organizational membership.If you are interested, you can help push the GTN over the top.Thanks,Dave COn Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Dave Clements <clements@galaxyproject.org> wrote:Hi Björn,Thanks. That's 40% of the way!Everyone: Please post to the list if you have any questions about GTN or GOBLET.Happy New Year!Dave C--On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 4:22 AM, Björn Grüning <bjoern.gruening@gmail.com> wrote:Hi Dave and GTN members,
this sounds like a very good opportunity. I would like to participate
with 50€ if this helps us.
Thanks Dave and a interesting and challenging new year!
Bjoern
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> I attended the annual GOBLET meeting in November. GOBLET (
> http://mygoblet.org/) is a global organization focused on bioinformatics
> training. Their goals largely mirror (and predate) the goals of the Galaxy
> Training Network (GTN, https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Teach). I was
> impressed with the group.
>
> I was about to submit my individual membership for 2015, and it occurred to
> me that by pooling individual memberships, we might be able to get an
> organizational membership for GTN. That is, if 5 of us were interested in
> joining, we might be able to pool those into a single Bronze membership.
> Individual memberships are €50/year and Bronze are €250. As an annual
> membership, we would need to find 5 people every year.
>
> A Bronze membership gets us a place for the GTN in GOBLET, and a vote in
> GOBLET issues (as an individual member I don't get a vote). It also raises
> the visibility of both GTN and GOBLET.
>
> This would only make sense if at least 5 of us, who aren't already
> organizational members, were interested in joining as individuals anyway.
>
> What do people think? Discussion and "yes I'm willing to contribute € to a
> pooled membership" emails are welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave C
>
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