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Planned meetings

TDWG has established an online database for tracking meetings and other events within the biodiversity informatics community, together with the existing TDWG databases for biodiversity informatics projects and networks.

The databases are:

WP6 promotional meetings

  Estimate Date       Who Priority Contribution Audience Justification
Palms2010 €1,800 31/03/10 R Palms RGBK Bill & Soraya high  talk & demo  200 palm scientists THE 5-yearly palm conference. Essential for us to launch this new resource to the community
JuSys Scratchpad training course £150 01/04/10 T Scratchpad NHML Irina  low  training course  6-10 Young German Taxonomists  Invited by speaker of JuSys
EOL Synthesis Meeting on Compositae, Chicago 0 (entirely funded by EOL) 15/04/10 C Cichorieae BGBM Eckhard high talk & demo 30 Compositae specialists + EOL people invited; a great opportunity to present EDIT directly to the EOL and discuss possible interaction
DrupalCon £1,170 19/04/10 C Scratchpad NHML Simon low      
8th Flora Malesiana Symposium €2,250 15/05/10 R Palms RGBK  Bill  high  talk & demo 250, botanists interested in SE Asia; many representatives of SE Asian institutions A great opportunity to present the portals to floristicians,  many of whom will be interested in EDIT products. Also a good opportunity to promote EDIT to an Asian/developing country audience
Training course, Brussels £400.00 01/06/10 T Scratchpad NHML          
Fourth International Congress on Phthiraptera, Turkey £300 13/06/10 CT Scratchpad NHML Vince low  talk & training 100-150 specialists on parasitic lice (evol. biologists, ecologists, medical doctors, veterinarians, taxonomists) All costs except subsistence funded externally by invitation.
iEvoBio £828 29/06/10 C Scratchpad NHML  Vince Med  Talk & demo 500-1000 Evolutionary biologists inclu. many students (multidisciplinary) and informatians. Mainly North Am. but audience and scope is international.  New and high profile North American event off the back of the Evol. 2010 meeting.
ICD7, Costa Rica £2,230 08/08/10 CT Diptera NHML  Irina, ?Vlad  high  cochair of symposium, talk on Scratchpads, talk on CDM+Portal, SP training course  50-100 Internat. Dipterists  The 4 yearly international Dipterology conference, there are already several Diptera Scratchpads and interest is high
Compositae meeting in Canada €4,000 09/08/10 C Cichorieae BGBM  Eckhard & Ralf  high  talk & demo  Compositae specialists, 200?  THE 4-yearly conference of Compositae specialists. Essential to launch our online monograph, to promote CDM&portal and to discuss integration (Global Virtual Key, Global checklist Compositae)
China £1,180 20/08/10 C Diptera and fossil insects NHML  Vlad    Talk on publications+ training  palaeontologists, entomologists, Chinese students,  new region for Scratchpad
IX Eur. Ent. Conf. Budapest £1,000 22/08/10 C Scratchpad NHML  Ed? Med.  Talk in EDIT session Approx. 1,000? Entomologists  Large European audience and a dedicated session on large scale projects.
Flora Malesiana Symposium, Singapore €2,300 25/08/10 C Scratchpad NHML         €1300 fromEDIT WP3 for Scratchpad involvement.
Swiss Syst Assoc £800 01/11/10 T Scratchpad NHML     Training course    
TDWG (USA) ?? 02/11/10 C Scratchpad NHML          
Paris Jamboree ?? 10/01/11 CT Scratchpad NHML          
Int Syst. Conf., Berlin £400 01/02/11 T Scratchpad NHML          

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Scratchpads developed and conceived by: Vince Smith, Simon Rycroft, Dave Roberts, Ben Scott...