Here we recap the events of the past month.

Conference

The 2019 VIVO Conference will be in Podgorica, Montenegro, September 4-6, 2019.  Announcement here:  

Ruben Verborgh of Ghent, Belgium will serve as program chair.  Violeta is conference chair.  Natasa is leading local arrangements.

Action Planning

1. Vision
2. Governance and Structure
3. Product Evolution
4. Community Development
5. Resources

Task Forces

1. Membership Task Force
2. Development
3. Research Intelligence
4. Ontology
5. Internationalization

Other

1. Initiative scoring completed.  Raw results here:.  Discussion at our meeting of September 14.
2. MOU/budget work for 2019 has begun.  Mike Conlon, Julia Trimmer, Erin Trippworking to improve the good work that was started last year.
3. VIVO Steering Group has been finalized.
4. The VIVO web site has been refreshed.  We moved from Duraspace hosted Drupal to Duraspace hosted WordPress.  Our site is "integrated" with other Duraspace sites (membership, registry, navigation, blog, news) limiting what we can do, but providing simpler updates, and improved look.  The new registry is much improved.  See the new site at the same address as always. http://vivoweb.org  
5. German VIVO workshop next week in Hannover, September 15-16.  Hackathon, ontology, German issues, multi-language issues. Christian Hauschke, Mike Conlon Michele Mennielli, Graham Triggs, Tatiana Walther, Anna Kasprzik, Ina Blümel, Lambert Heller, attendance capped and sold out at 55.
6. Mike Conlon will be at DTU serving on an advisory board for their national RI project, then in Montreal for Force 11 at the blockchain workshop, in Leiden for an RDA/FAIR metadata workshop.