<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hi, this is likely coming to you via several listserv postings; </span></font><span id="docs-internal-guid-fd479918-7fff-6efe-d09b-b53fa9ad1790" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">apologies for duplication</span></span><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 11px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 11px;">The FORCE2019 meeting, taking place in Edinburgh this October 15-17, has announced their first two keynote speakers:</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c0baecc7-7fff-4934-be04-5d625218a56a" class="" style="font-size: 11px;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b class="">Rachel Bruce</b> is Head of Open Science at UK Research and Innovation (</span><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap; text-decoration: underline; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">); and <b class="">Arfon Smith</b> is the Editor-in-Chief of the </span><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjoss.theoj.org&data=01%7C01%7Cboai-forum%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7C7db4a5bf0dd54a473a2008d6eb3cc5f3%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=duUCkY4A3AyuRgKUtz%2Fmto%2FbPQNXXZIvz6T54Zx1sS0%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="http://joss.theoj.org" shash="WhFOkmAswQXAcHgrLTcszJMql0hFictxVRffSB+rTSGuSMUuQPdVsnmPpbKJjaW/ynK5Wau9uPx+wCQ8MG3Z5qyKi9WyZ0BWBoE/2TwzsOeUgQbMRFQSqmHpMEFd6GiIhY/TJG2ZZNSR+LVVOMB/IpWjVP8bJnmpWLop1nDltz4=" originalSrc="http://joss.theoj.org" shash="WhFOkmAswQXAcHgrLTcszJMql0hFictxVRffSB+rTSGuSMUuQPdVsnmPpbKJjaW/ynK5Wau9uPx+wCQ8MG3Z5qyKi9WyZ0BWBoE/2TwzsOeUgQbMRFQSqmHpMEFd6GiIhY/TJG2ZZNSR+LVVOMB/IpWjVP8bJnmpWLop1nDltz4=" class="" style="white-space: pre; text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); 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text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Space Telescope Science Institute</span></a><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in Baltimore. </span></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">They’ll address themes in infrastructure and promoting open research</span></div><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">If you’ve never been to FORCE before, it’s a unique and collaborative meeting. It brings together multiple communities to discuss improving the ways scholarly and scientific information is communicated, shared and used.</font></span></div><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><blockquote class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11px;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"I can't think of a better conference for meeting smart people focused on designing and building the future of scholarly infrastructure – that's why FORCE is so special." </span><span class="" style="font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap; text-align: right;">– Arfon Smith </span></div></span></div></blockquote><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11px;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Come along and you’ll likely meet some new collaborators!</font></span></div><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Best wishes,</font></span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Ginny Hendricks</font></span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; 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