Workshop Options for SPNHC 2025 in Lawrence, KS

Happy New Year, everyone! :tada:
I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday.

As we kick off our planning for this year’s SPNHC activities (May 27-31 in Lawrence, KS), we are exploring the possibility of hosting a workshop for our consortium members and the broader community. To help us gauge interest, we’d love your feedback on a couple of options:

  1. A Two-Day Workshop: This would take place after the SPNHC conference concludes.
  2. A Half-Day or Full-Day Workshop: This could be integrated into the SPNHC activities on May 31st, during the conference’s workshop day.

You can respond to this post or email us at membership@specifysoftware.org to indicate your interest and preferred duration for the workshop.

Thank you all!

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My colleague Zsuzsanna and I are planning to come to the SPNHC meeting in Kansas and would love to join your workshop(s) and meet you all. I will think a bit more about what format I’d personally prefer, but at least a full day if not two.

Hi again. We were looking at this for applying funding (deadline January 20th). For the fund application we need to have a clearer idea what date range our presence would be required for, if we want to attend the workshop(s). In case of option 1, we would pre-emptively have to tell the funds we need to stay a few days longer than the actual conference, although it’s uncertain exactly what days in that case. With option 2, we expect it to overlap with the duration of the conference.

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Hi Specify, We from the RBGE would prefer a two-day workshop after the conference. It will allow us to maximise our flight/carbon miles and avoid potentially missing other workshops within the conference.

But - Content is King - as we would be keen to participate in a workshop on system processes, usage issues etc.

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