<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13px">Register for Open Science Codefest and book a room at the Fess Parker Hotel in Santa Barbara, CA by August 1st for free registration and discounted room rates!</span></p>


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<span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13px">INVITATION TO OPEN SCIENCE CODEFEST 2014</span><br></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">WHAT: Open
Science Codefest will gather researchers from ecology, biodiversity science,
and other earth and environmental sciences with computer scientists, software
engineers, and developers to collaborate on coding projects of mutual interest.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">WHEN:
September 2-4, 2014</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">WHERE: The
Fess Parker Hotel in Santa Barbara, California</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">COST:
Registration is free. Rooms are available at the Fess Parker at a discounted
rate until August 1st. Register here: </span><a href="http://nceas.github.io/open-science-codefest/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">http://nceas.github.io/open-science-codefest/</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>




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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Inspired by
hack-a-thons and organized in the participant-driven, unconference style, the
Open Science Codefest is for anyone with an interesting problem, solution, or
idea that intersects environmental science and computer programming. This is
the conference where you will actually get stuff done -- whether that&#39;s coding
up a new R module, developing an ontology, working on a data repository,
creating data visualizations, dreaming up an interactive eco-game, discussing
an idea, or any other concrete collaborative goal that interests a group of
people.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Suggest a
session topic or review proposed sessions in the Open Science Codefest Github
project (</span><a href="https://github.com/NCEAS/open-science-codefest/issues?labels=&amp;milestone=&amp;page=1&amp;state=open" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">https://github.com/NCEAS/open-science-codefest/issues?labels=&amp;milestone=&amp;page=1&amp;state=open</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">). </span></p>




<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">To suggest
a session, create a &quot;New Issue&quot; and apply the &quot;proposed
session&quot; label. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Email the
Codefest team at: </span><a href="mailto:codefest@nceas.ucsb.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">codefest@nceas.ucsb.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>



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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Learn more
on the Codefest website: </span><a href="http://nceas.github.io/open-science-codefest/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">http://nceas.github.io/open-science-codefest/</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>




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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Please
forward this announcement and spread the word about Open Science Codefest 2014.
People from a wide variety of disciplines, geographic regions, and skill levels
are encouraged to attend!</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Follow us
on Twitter #OSCodefest</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Sponsored
by: National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), Renaissance
Computing Institute (RENCI), the National Science Foundation (NSF), rOpenSci,
DataONE, Mozilla Science Lab</span></p></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div>
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