Dear all, apologies for cross-posting. A training course in the use of Scratchpads (http://scratchpads.eu) will be available immediately after the EDIT general meeting in Carvoeiro this December. The course is aimed at those who manage sites on behalf of their community (site maintainers). Note also that there will be a workshop in this year's TDWG meeting in Montpellier (http://www.tdwg.org/conference2009 ) about the logistics of maintaining your own Scratchpad server. EDIT will be funding participation in the general meeting for those at EDIT member institutions through your local team leader and this can be extended for an additional night to cover the training course. The deadline for travel funding is 16th October. Course registration is open until 1st December. To apply for training, go to http://scratchpads.eu/scratchpad-training-courses Cheers, Dave -- Dr D.McL. Roberts, Tel: +44 (0)20 7942 5086 European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy Project, Coordinator WorkPackage 6 (Unifying Revisionary Taxonomy), Dept. Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD Great Britain Email: dmr@nomencurator.org Web page: http://scratchpads.eu Web page: http://www.editwebrevisions.info/ -- "You can't just ask customers what they want and then try and give it to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new." [Steve Jobs, quoted in The Guardian, Technology Section, 25 June 09]. --