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Announcements
Keep that testing coming! VIVO 1.9 release candidate 1 is available for testing. Join the VIVO Tech list to participate in discussions of the impending release.
SHARE Community Meeting and Hackathon. SHARE held its hackathon and community meeting last week in Charlottesville VA. See the trip report for more details.
Institutional conference sponsorships - The conference will be held in Denver August 17-19th and is a great opportunity to connect with researchers, technologists, and higher education professionals from around the world. This year, we hope you will consider sponsoring at the Institutional Level ($2,000). I've included below a prospectus and have listed the benefits of Institutional Sponsorship here for your convenience and consideration.
Join Duraspace! The VIVO membership drive has begun. Please consider how your institution might financially support VIVO:
Corporations can participate as Duraspace corporate sponsors. See http://vivoweb.org/sponsorship
Academic institutions and research organizations can participate as Duraspace members. See http://vivoweb.org/membership
Existing members and financial supporters may wish to consider increasing their support for 2016. Cornell University recently tripled its financial support of the VIVO Project. We thank Cornell for this outstanding support!
Steering/Leadership Group Update - The VIVO Leadership Group has nominated new members for the VIVO Steering Group to serve three year terms. Mark Fallu of the University of Melbourne, Mark Newton of Columbia University, and Paul Albert of Weill Cornell Medicine have each agreed to serve. Leadership Group update. Julia Laurin of Thomson Reuters has joined the VIVO Leadership Group.
Updates
Brown (Steven)
DuraSpace
Emory
George Washington University
IFPRI -- International Food Policy Research Institute
Memorial University
NCAR
Northwestern (Paul)
Smithsonian
Thomson Reuters (Ted)
UCLA
University of Maryland Baltimore County
University of Pennsylvania (John Mark)
University of Virginia
Virginia Tech
Weill Cornell (Paul)
Call-in Information
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