Happy Holidays all!

A couple of reminders before 2019 arrives:

- *Galaxy Admin Training https://galaxyproject.org/events/2019-admin-training/*, January 28-February 1. Learn best practices for installing and supporting your own Galaxy service. Split into a 2-day intro session, and a 3 day advanced session. *Advance registration ends December 31, and then rates go up by, um, a lot. Register by Monday.* - *GCC2019 Training Topic Nominations https://galaxyproject.org/news/2018-12-gcc2019-training-nomination/ end 31 December! * Nominated topics will be voted on by the community in January. Topics nominated thus far are here https://galaxyproject.org/events/gcc2019/training/#training-topic-nominations. Please nominate new topics here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fBPjEmw7Td52rhBnC0SvflnQCD7Ue5IMJ9RkM0SjnYg/, and if you want to expand on existing nominations https://galaxyproject.org/events/gcc2019/training/#training-topic-nominations you can edit the hub directly, or send the edits to me. (Note: I suspect, but don't know, that we'll extend this deadline into early January.) - *GalaxyAdmins meetups https://galaxyproject.org/news/2018-12-galaxy-admins/* will resume in 2019 https://galaxyproject.org/news/2018-12-galaxy-admins/. If you have ideas for meetup topics, please nominate them https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfv257YcdQQO7gp3K4USoBzqkd-UDEblsto5UhU34gFlXTiPQ/viewform . - We need your project ideas for *Google Summer of Code 2019* https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfv257YcdQQO7gp3K4USoBzqkd-UDEblsto5UhU34gFlXTiPQ/viewform*. *Please add your project ideas to the proposal, either directly on this page http://gmod.org/wiki/GSOC_Project_Ideas_2019 (requires an account), of via this online form http://bit.ly/gsoc-2019-ogi-propose.

Finally, for those of you not on Twitter, I can't resist sharing this post from Martin Čech https://twitter.com/martenson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Eprofile%3Agalaxyproject&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgalaxyproject.org%2F .

See you in the new year, Dave C

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