Hello GCC2016 Participants,
GCC2016 training is halfway done: We had 15 sessions today (plus 1 more
tonight), and have 15 more on Monday. The code and data hackathons
officially wind down this evening (but will continue in smaller groups
during the rest of the week).
Here’s the news to use for the next 36 hours:
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Conference check-in
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Training office hour
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Dinner options tonight
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Opening reception Monday, 7-9pm
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Call for … lightning!
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Monday BoFs
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Submit a BoF now!
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Sponsors
See you, um, here!
The GCC2016 Exec
Carrie Ganote, Chris Hemmerich, Dave Clements, Marilyne Summo, and Robert
Ping
Conference check-in
If you are just arriving, please stop by the conference desk to pick up
your badge, program, and other conference materials. You’ll need that badge
to attend GCC2016 The conference desk will be open these times today and
tomorrow:
Sun 8am–9pm, Conference Room, main level, IMU
Mon 8am–6pm, Conference Room, main level, IMU
6:45-9pm, CyberInfrastructure Building (during opening reception
See the online map <
http://bit.ly/gcc2016map> for building locations.
Training: Office hour
To help people get set up in advance, there will be a training office hour
session tonight. Drop by if you require help installing and configuring
required software, or just to check that everything is working. The
training office hour tonight is:
Sunday, 8:30–9:30pm, Hoosier Room, main level of the IMU.
Our goal is to have everyone ready to go when the first training session
starts each morning. And, if you are VM, VirtualBox, Docker, or generally
systems proficient, think about stopping by and lending a hand.
Dinner options tonight
You are on your own for dinner this evening (Sunday). See the bottom of
the conference location page <
https://gcc2016.iu.edu/location/index.php>
for links to nearby options. Or, if you just want to wander, see the online
map <
http://bit.ly/gcc2016map> for restaurant-enriched neighborhoods.
Fourth street from Indiana Avenue to Walnut St. and Fifth Street (Kirkwood
Avenue) from Indiana Avenue to Rogers St. both have an array of amazing
options. The square downtown is a great find as well.
Lunch on Monday
Will be in the IMU East Lounge. This will get people through the lunch
lines much quicker than today.
Opening reception Monday 7-9pm
Jetstream <
http://jetstream-cloud.org/>, IU's newest National Science
Foundation-funded project, and the National Center for Genome Analysis
Support <
http://ncgas.org/> at IU, will sponsor a reception at the IU
CyberInfrastructure Building with local wine/beer, morsels from local
eateries, and demonstrations of the 15 million+ pixel IQ-Wall, IU's Data
Center, Science on a Sphere, and other IU-centric IT.
Meet at the sidewalk by the stop sign near the guard gate on 7th street at
the entrance to the IMU Hotel circle drive at ~6:25 and ~7:25pm or at
Wilkie North Tower circle drive at ~6:45pm or ~7:45pm for transport or have
a walk west out 10th street. See map
<
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1eC2hIqhNdnTRWVEL7fRrs2x8Qb4...
(CIB is two purple balloons on far right of map)
Please bring the your two drink tickets (inside your badge holder).
Call for ... lightning!
There are two lightning talk sessions: one on Tuesday at 4:45pm, and one on
Wednesday at 4:30pm. If you wish to give a lightning talk, please send an
abstract to gcc2016-sci(a)lists.galaxyproject.org before the start of session
2 on Tuesday or the start of session 6 on Wednesday. Proposals should be
short, just like the talks. Reviewers will let you know no later than the
end of lunch on each day if the proposal has been accepted for that day.
The slides for all lightning talks will be made available online, and the
talks will be recorded and posted online for later viewing.
Monday BoFs
BoFs start tomorrow! Here’s what’s been scheduled for Monday as of this
writing:
1. European Galaxy developer school <
http://sched.co/7Vi5>
Monday, June 27, IMU Oak Room, 11:30am-12:30pm
What should be covered in a developer school being held in January 2017, in
Strasbourg (France).
Sign up now <
http://sched.co/7Vi5>.
2. Application containers for the win! <
http://sched.co/7UVB>
Monday, June 27, IMU, Walnut Room, 11:30am-12:30pm
Application portability conundrum of Galactic proportions.
Sign up now <
http://sched.co/7UVB>.
3. GalaxyScientists Revival
<
https://gcc16.sched.org/event/7YSs/galaxyscientists-revival-birds-of-a-fe...
(Newly added)
Monday, June 27, Oak Room, 9pm-10:30pm
GalaxyScientists represents the scientific community among Galaxy users. If
you would like to contribute to the Galaxy scientific community, please
join us.
Sign up now <
http://sched.co/7UVB>.
See something that interests you? Plan to attend. You don’t have to
register for a BoF on
sched.org to attend a BoF. Just show up. Let’s say
that again: Really, just show up.
See the complete list of BoFs
<
https://gcc16.sched.org/type/E.6+Birds-of-a-feather> for what’s coming
during the rest of the week. More BoFs will be added as they are
submitted. We’ll announce them on Twitter, in the daily mails, and during
the meeting.
Submit a BoF now!
Submit your BoF here
<
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aikQugTW_VlY5K0TQ3cI9E2NVIk443gkzK6EqP8g...;,
right now. Birds-of-a-feather meetups (BoFs)
<
https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/E.6+Birds-of-a-feather> are informal
gatherings at GCC where attendees with a shared interest meet to discuss
their interests and challenges. If you have an idea for a BoF, post it here
<
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aikQugTW_VlY5K0TQ3cI9E2NVIk443gkzK6EqP8g...;.
There is ample space for more BoFs throughout the rest of the conference.
Sponsors
Conference sponsors <
https://gcc2016.iu.edu/sponsors/index.php> are key
partners in the Galaxy community and are absolutely vital in making event
registration affordable. We are highlighting different sponsors in each
email.
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http://www.ddn.com/> is the leading provider of high-performance
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better throughput than on traditional NAS storage. As a result, DDN
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number of clinical research and pharmaceutical companies as well. Stop by
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