<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-fa59ed65-7fff-1b31-fd12-4da076fe2d81" style=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap">Hi everyone, </span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We’re pleased to announce an early – partial – list of talks and speakers for the FORCE11 meeting this October in Edinburgh. We received nearly 180 outstanding proposals – thank you! – and the Program Committee is now finishing up their work to shape a great program for you. We hope to announce the final program in mid- to late August. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For now, we’re happy to say that speakers from MIT, the Open University, Utrecht University, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">SAGE, Springer Nature, ASAPbio, COAR, Crossref, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative have all confirmed their participation.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">They’ll talk about ways to help open citations, the future of preprints, new funding sources for infrastructure, community-building to push for open access, code publication and peer review, registered reports & reproducibility, open competitions to drive innovation, text-mining the scholarly literature, open-source publishing, and collaboration building across teams working with research data. And that’s just the start of what this year’s program will be! </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap">(The program committee’s invitations are still going out, so please stand by if you’re waiting to hear about your proposal). </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Our first list of speakers is now available on the <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.force11.org%2Fmeetings%2Fforce2019%2Fprogram%2Fprogram&data=01%7C01%7Cboai-forum%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7Ceecb8ad667bf4167fdbc08d717406ac8%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=l%2FzG8D5idybQ99Nk%2B2i%2F18Up9X8KbIh%2FZ8OCBFpsjZM%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://www.force11.org/meetings/force2019/program/program" shash="SJj3GBWNVK6VgXDshGdoykBtHva/ekUvtxGfcSbj22VD8jSrUeeer1eCExRV5gi9oKHKccqMjQSfNXvWOjS91tXpXMX59uySJzGOBPk6JUHo53aWyPpaE4rCF595KVeArpqHgTlWasFxl6u+xmRpGiPX69CQqNcZsQypaNU+u0Q=">meeting website</a>.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.force11.org%2Fmeetings%2Fforce2019&data=01%7C01%7Cboai-forum%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7Ceecb8ad667bf4167fdbc08d717406ac8%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=s1%2BwGdf1gov%2FPU70txB%2FOOJ3mm4r9T8wUsWZZ1R80Wc%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://www.force11.org/meetings/force2019" shash="nItYZN/u9LiLwT8At66evBiGoLgw6wiQ/bT3xvvaLj7mljIbtHrSsNo+LbcGc/Cw4S8GRzs+E4tZMgsJY1XOKpq/1TjPXWUyzelcUIzIJcPwB2OeETEXTiWDk9wmgg4NkWETQ1LG3Q0mFMpZii8+P/w4Bq0dAHf2TQJbOFJsFbo=" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Register now</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to attend. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thanks! We’ll look forward to seeing you there.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">----------</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The FORCE11 annual conference is a different kind of meeting, where stakeholders come together for an open discussion, on an even playing field, to talk about changing the ways scholarly and scientific information is communicated, shared and used. Researchers, publishers, librarians, computer scientists, informaticians, funders, educators, citizens, and others attend the FORCE11 meeting with a view to supporting the realisation of promising new ideas and identifying new potential collaborators.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">FORCE2019 will be held October 16 and 17, 2019 at the BT Murrayfield Rugby Stadium, with pre-conference workshops at the Grosvenor Hotel on October 15. 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