Key Contributors Update, 20 March 2020

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 information

As previously communicated, the review meeting of the third round of Selection of ELIXIR Core Data Resources and Deposition Databases, originally planned for 20 April in Amsterdam has been postponed to the Autumn.

Please indicate your availability via this Doodle Poll by Tuesday, 31 March.
 
To free up time for those directly involved in dealing with the repercussions of the Covid19 crisis, we are now extending the deadline for the return of the evaluations to Monday, 4 May.

We hope you are staying safe in this troubling time!

 

Participants who were planning to participate in the Recommended Interoperability Resources (RIR) evaluation meeting on 23 March are hereby informed that the meeting will be postponed to a later date.

Participants will be notified of further updates in due time. As of Monday 16 March, staff at the ELIXIR Hub have been working from home. We are currently unable to answer calls to our landline office numbers, but we remain reachable via email and the usual communication channels.

After careful consideration, we have decided to either postpone or organise via remote participation (VC) all ELIXIR Hub events planned from March through to end of May. We will be in communication with the affected attendees to provide more information.

If you have any questions, please contact us at info@elixir-europe.org. We will provide information on events after May as the situation develops.

Key dates and meetings

Heads of Nodes Retreat

  • 6-7 May 2020 (Woking, UK)

Heads of Nodes lunch meeting @ All Hands

  • 9 June 2020 (Amsterdam, NL)

Heads of Nodes TC

  • 10 September 2020 -- (9:30-12:30 (WEST) / 10:30-13:30 (CEST))

Heads of Nodes TC

  • 3 December 2020 -- (9:30-12:30 (WET) / 10:30-13:30 (CET))