Hi all -

thanks for everyone's input and the enthusiasm - very much appreciated! We tried to synthesize this and our own thoughts into an abstract. The resulting draft is here:

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1ihH6MGKBCpH10sqvDK5ahLgvz6P_qP-TaN-vLt6O9j8

It is due for submission tomorrow, Sep 1, at  23:59 UTC which is (1 minute before) 8pm US Eastern Time (if I understand the time zones the same way as TDWG does), so there's not a whole lot of time for changes. That said, please don't hesitate if you have any suggestions, and we aren't quite up to the 3,500 character limit yet, so adding on is still possible too.

-Nico & Hilmar 

  

On Aug 26, 2010, at 9:40 PM, Nico Cellinese wrote:

Hi all,

we have reserved one full day for a Phylogenetics Standards hands-on activity at the upcoming TDWG conference. We asked for power strips and wireless network and tables that we can sit around and work together. The only thing that's missing right now is what exactly we should target. The options are wide open right now, with the two only major constraints being that (a) we have no funding this year to bring people in who wouldn't otherwise be there, and (b) abstract submission deadline is next Wednesday.

Any feedback or ideas, wild or not, that you have would be welcome - send those our way.

And BTW currently this workshops seems to be placed on the Wednesday of the conference week, so those of you blitzing the local biosphere will unfortunately have a conflict.

Cheers,

Nico & Hilmar

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Nico Cellinese, Ph.D.

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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology

Florida Museum of Natural History

University of Florida

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