<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=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">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 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;" class="">apologies for duplication</span></span><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">.</span></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 11px;" class="">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; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.ukri.org/" class="" style="white-space: pre; text-decoration: none;">UKRI</a></span><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; 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="http://joss.theoj.org/" class="" style="white-space: pre; 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;">Journal of Open Source Software</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;"> and Head of the Data Science Mission Office at the </span><a href="http://www.stsci.edu/" class="" style="white-space: pre; 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 style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">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 style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><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 style="font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap; text-align: right;" class="">– 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; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap; text-align: right;" class=""><br class=""></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="">Some links here for extra info:</font></span></div><ul class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.force11.org/meetings/force2019/speakers/keynote-presenters" class="" style="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;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Conference website</font></span></a></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><a href="https://www.force11.org/meetings/force2019" class="" style="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;">Registration</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;"> (early bird fee until end August)</span></font></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.force11.org/meetings/force2019/sponsorship-opportunities" class="" style="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;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Sponsorship opportunities</font></span></a></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Keep in touch </span><a href="https://force11slack.herokuapp.com/" class="" style="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;">on Slack</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;">, via</span><a href="http://eepurl.com/dv1rm5" class="" style="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;"> email alerts</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;">, or via twitter </span><a href="https://twitter.com/force11rescomm" class="" style="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;">@force11rescomm</span></a></font></div></li></ul><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="">The full program will be announced later in the year with themes including: who are the trailblazers; promoting open research; infrastructure for research comms; and what skills do we need for transforming the scholarly community.</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="">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; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">(on behalf of the FORCE2019 team)</font></span></div></span></div></body></html>