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
Ongoing 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
Heads of Nodes are informed that the agenda and documents for the Heads of Nodes retreat, taking place 13-14 May in Woking, UK will be circulated next week Monday, 29 April. The ELIXIR::GA4GH Strategic Partnership has been approved by the ELIXIR Director and GA4GH Executive Committee and will be launched next week at the GA4GH Connect meeting in Hinxton. Serena Scollen (ELIXIR::GA4GH Strategic Partnership Champion) will present the new form of collaboration at both the opening plenary session of the meeting, and also at the GA4GH Steering Committee.
The internal ELIXIR document, which focuses on the operationalisation of the partnership is described in this live Google document, and will be discussed at the forthcoming Heads of Nodes retreat.
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