Hello GCC2016 Participants, GCC2016 training is done! 31 training sessions covering the spectrum of data intensive biology are now history (but don’t worry if you missed it, slides and video are coming). The opening reception is this evening and the conference starts tomorrow morning. See below for details. - Opening reception Monday, 7-9pm - Conference check-in - Call for … lightning! - Monday evening and Tuesday BoFs - Submit a BoF now! - Sponsors Welcome to Bloomington! The GCC2016 Exec Carrie Ganote, Chris Hemmerich, Dave Clements, Marilyne Summo, and Robert Ping 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). Conference check-in If you are just arriving, please stop by the conference desk to pick up your badge, program, and other conference materials. The conference desk will be open these times today and tomorrow: Mon Now–6pm, Conference Lounge, main level, IMU 6:45-9pm, CyberInfrastructure Building (during opening reception) Tue 8am-6pm, Alumni Hall, First floor, IMU See the online map <http://bit.ly/gcc2016map> for building locations. 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@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 evening & Tuesday BoFs BoFs have started! Here’s what’s been scheduled for Monday evening and Tuesday as of this writing: 1. GalaxyScientists Revival <https://gcc16.sched.org/event/7YSs/galaxyscientists-revival-birds-of-a-feather> 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>. 2. Arts & Crafts <http://sched.co/7Yad> Tuesday, June 28, back of Alumni Hall, 12:40-1:40pm GCC sure can be overwhelming sometimes! This is a quiet place to do some stress free, science related, arts and crafts. Sign up now <http://sched.co/7Yad>. 3. GalaxyAdmins <http://sched.co/7KLn> Tuesday, June 28, west end of Alumni Hall, 12:40-1:40pm If you administer a Galaxy instance, please help shape the future direction of this group and to set action items for the coming year. Sign up now <http://sched.co/7KLn>. 4. Gene Annotation <http://sched.co/7Yfb> Tuesday, June 28, southwest corner of Alumni Hall, 12:40-1:40pm We are interested in a general discussion of Genome Annotation problems and solutions.. Sign up now <http://sched.co/7KLn>. 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. Call for BoFs 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_VlY5K0TQ3cI9E2NVIk443gkzK6EqP8gsr4/viewform>. The conference will provide space and make sure that attendees get the word. BoFs will be added to the conference schedule website <https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/E.6+Birds-of-a-feather> as they come in, and BoF meeting times will be assigned in the coming weeks. Last year's BoFs <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2015/BoFs> spanned a wide range of topics and were highly recommended in the conference evaluations. Let’s outdo ourselves again this year. 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. Lenovo <http://lenovo.com/> is proud to be the Gold Sponsor of GCC2016 and we look forward to seeing everyone at the IU conference center. Brian Finley <https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-finley-105188> of Lenovo will give a short talk <https://gcc16.sched.org/event/7Jc3/infinite-galaxy> on technology trends in Big Data / Analytics, and several of us will be at the conference and exhibit area. If you would like any information from Lenovo, please feel free to send me an email <rerdelen@lenovo.com> or call (734) 331-0676. Of course, please stop by our exhibit table at the conference and say hello. Thank you -- Bob Erdelen Lenovo Data Center Group. x86 Servers, Networks & Storage Information: www.lenovo.com/us Connect: www.linkedin.com/in/erdelen -- http://galaxyproject.org/ http://getgalaxy.org/ http://usegalaxy.org/ https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/