[Gmod-tripal] Tripal Events with PAG

[Meg S. <me...@gm...>]

Tripal will be having a number of exciting events at PAG this year! Please
check them out:

1. PAG Tripal Session - *Abstract submissions due Oct 27th*
2. Hackathon and User Meeting on January 11th and 12th
3. Tripal install and demo short class - sign up to gauge interest!

1. PAG Tripal Session
The Tripal session at PAG (http://www.intlpag.org/) will be the same time
and place this year - Sunday January 14th 2018 from 4pm-6:10pm in San
Diego, CA.  We are now requesting abstracts for oral presentations, due
October 27th.  Anyone who is attending the conference is welcome to submit
an abstract, and we are particularly encouraging groups that are new to
Tripal or haven’t presented in this session in previous years to submit.  A
variety of topics are welcome: new databases, custom extensions,
integration with other tools, or any other Tripal related projects.
Abstracts should be limited to 250 words, and  can be submitted by email in
MS Word or PDF, please send to both Meg Staton at mst...@ut... and Ethy
Cannon at ekc...@ia.... We look forward to hearing from you!

(Poster abstracts for the PAG conference are handled separately and due the
same day, please see https://pag.confex.com/pag/xxvi/cfp.cgi)

2. Hackathon and User Meeting
We will also be continuing the Hackathon and User Meeting to be held in the
2 days prior to the start of PAG, January 11th and 12th. If you are
planning to attend, please add your name to this google doc so we can be
sure to have a big enough room. We are also soliciting feedback from the
community on any topics or break out groups you would like to see.

Doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1klQwUqaT_KxPKIfGYy_3rtGnOMVhJxEoD9dZ4PGc4yg/edit?usp=sharing

More information on room location and times will be forthcoming shortly.

3. Possible Tripal Install and Basic Site Development Training
If there is enough interest, we can offer a class of 8-16 students to learn
the basics of Tripal during the morning of January 11th (in parallel with
the hackathon). Each student will be able to use their own laptop or a free
session on the cloud computing platform Jetstream to go through the
materials. The class will guide the installation of all required software
for a web server with Drupal, installing the Tripal core and extension
modules, and loading data into standard modules (Organism, Feature, etc).
Please share this with any interested colleagues, and anyone who wants to
attend can sign up here: https://goo.gl/forms/FfOlYiCcUOdd3fx83. We’ll make
a decision about offering the course based on number of interested people.

Feel free to reply with any questions and I'll do my best to answer. Hope
to see you in San Diego!

Meg

-- 
Margaret Staton
Assistant Professor
Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology
370 PBB, 2505 EJ Chapman Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-4560

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