[Gmod-tripal] Reminder: Tripal events at PAG XXVI

[Cannon, E. K [C. S] <ekc...@ia...>]

This is a reminder that abstract submission for the Tripal workshop at PAG is due this Friday, October 27th.

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...<mailto:mst...@ut...> and Ethy Cannon at ekc...@ia...<mailto: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)

Also, in case you missed it, there will be a Tripal hackathon and user meeting before PAG, on January 11th and 12th. If you are planning to attend and have already done so, 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

In addition, if there is enough interest, we will 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 and has not already done so, sign up here: https://goo.gl/forms/FfOlYiCcUOdd3fx83. We’ll make a decision about offering the course based on number of interested people and announce to this mailing list in early December, so please sign up by then.

Feel free to reply with any questions and we will do our best to answer. Hope to see you in San Diego!

Ethy and Meg