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 The emerging Microbial Biotechnology Community has developed a draft strategic paper for future consideration by the Heads of Nodes and publication in the ELIXIR F1000Research channel.
This draft strategic paper is now open for comment by recipients of this update. The draft strategic paper from the Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Community is also open for comment.
Please provide comments and input by Sun, 31 March, after which date the documents will be closed for comments. If you have any questions, please contact John Hancock (john.hancock@elixir-europe.org).
For action
Ongoing Final Reminder! Heads of Nodes are asked to review Project Plans for Commissioned Services. These include the tasks in the ELIXIR Platforms and strategic Implementation Studies, as well as the hCNV Community Implementation Study.
Please be advised that the Project Plan for Strategic Implementation Study: Deploying Reproducible Containers and Workflows Across Cloud Environments" is now included into the above document.
Heads of Nodes can either send comments and feedback to Susanna Repo (susanna.repo@elixir-europe.org) by Tue, 26 February or present their feedback at the HoN TC, taking place on Thu, 28 February. The emerging Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Community has developed a draft strategic paper for future consideration by the Heads of Nodes and publication in the ELIXIR F1000Research channel.
Key dates and meetings
Heads of Nodes teleconference
- 28 February 2019
ELIXIR Board meeting
- 15-16 April 2019, Bergen, Norway
Heads of Nodes meeting
- 13-14 May 2019, Woking (Heathrow), UK
Heads of Nodes teleconference
- 11 September 2019