Key Contributors Update, 10 May 2019

This update is sent weekly on Friday afternoon and goes to ELIXIR key stakeholders. It contains requests for actions regarding operations and developments within ELIXIR. Contact joana.wingender@elixir-europe.org for any questions.

An ELIXIR HoNs shared folder including meeting materials from HoN meetings, reference documents, slides & graphics archive can be found on google drive.

For action

New An emerging Community has developed a draft strategic paper for future consideration by the Heads of Nodes and publication in the ELIXIR F1000Research channel.

- Draft strategic paper from the Structural Bioinformatics (3DBioinfo) Community

The document is open for comments until Thu, 13 June, after which date the document will be closed for comments. If you have any questions, please contact John Hancock (john.hancock@elixir-europe.org).

For action

Ongoing Final Reminder! The ELIXIR Heads of Nodes are invited to review Guidelines for Node Service Selection Process.

Please add any comments directly to the document or feed back to Susanna Repo by Thu, 16 May. After this consultation period, the Director will approve these Guidelines as an operational procedure for ELIXIR.

For information

We look forward to seeing Heads of Nodes at the Retreat on Monday!

Key dates and meetings

Heads of Nodes Retreat

  • 13-14 May 2019, Woking (Heathrow), UK

Heads of Nodes meeting (additional)

  • 18 June 2019, Lisbon, Portugal @ All Hands

Heads of Nodes TC

  • 11 September 2019

Heads of Nodes TC

  • 5 December 2019