Hi All,

Maria Doyle will be officially representing GTN at the GOBLET AGM http://www.abacbs.org/goblet_agm/ in Brisbane, early next month. Maria works at PeterMac in Melbourne and is a Galaxy veteran. Two other Galaxy veterans, Annette McGrath of CSIRO and Igor Makunin of U Queensland, will also be there to present Galaxy savvy points of view.

I'd like to come up with a list of agenda items for Maria to present on behalf of GTN.

Last year's list:

Last year we discussed what our priorities for the GOBLET meeting http://galaxy-training-mailing-list-archive.35427.n7.nabble.com/GTN-issues-for-GOBLET-Meeting-in-October-td27.html should be. and came up with this list http://galaxy-training-mailing-list-archive.35427.n7.nabble.com/Galaxy-Training-Network-items-for-2015-GOBLET-Meeting-td50.html. Here's what I think happened with those 5 items:

*1. Enable/Host online discussion about bioinformatics training.*

As far as I can tell no action has been taken.

*2. Either start sending a regular newsletter, or stop saying we have one.*

This has been started.

*3. Should GOBLET offer a bioinformatics trainer certification?*

I have no emails since the last meeting with the words GOBLET and certify/certification in them. So, no progress.

And from Peter VH during last year's meeting:

There is not really a concept of Goblet Certified Trainer being thrown

around but there has been a discussion on what a "Goblet branded" set of training materials or course would involve. The idea is that certain requirements have to be met to get this "Goblet branded" badge.

*4. Make it easier to publish, share, and refine training material.*

I should have titled this "Embrace the Carpentry model for training materials."

The *Galaxy Community* has actually made a lot of progress on this independent of GOBLET. There was a two day training material hackathon this month. See here https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_10#Galaxy_training_contribution_fest.2C_6-7_October.2C_Online. (I'm hoping to have a summary in the November newsletter as well.)

As far as I can tell, GOBLET has not done anything with this.

There is an item on this year's agenda about GOBLET's relationship with Software Carpentry, not about training materials per se.

*5. Shared Training Datasets are Precious!*

No progress from GOBLET here either. However, Björn and Bérenice made progress on this for Galaxy during the October hackathon.

This year's list:

What should be on this year's list? What are our priorities for the coming year? How can GOBLET help us? How can we help GOBLET?

I encourage you to post your ideas to this list. I'll send my suggestions in a separate email as well.