All (with apologies for cross-posting)

Just a reminder that the second Hydra Connect meeting will take place at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio from 30 September to 3 October, 2014. Almost half the tickets have already gone and the special hotel rate finishes on 28^th August – so book soon!

The Tuesday will be given over to workshops whilst Wednesday and Thursday will be a mixture of plenary and breakout sessions covering the whole gamut of issues important to the Hydra community. Wednesday morning will include a welcome and introductions, a "State of the HydraSphere" address and some short talks. Wednesday afternoon will be given over to an open session of posters and demos where attendees will have ample chance to mingle, find out what others are doing with Hydra and ask detailed questions (all Hydra adopters will be encouraged to bring posters - details nearer the time - and gear up for small scale demos where appropriate). Thursday will largely be a mixture of short talks and breakout groups - the topics for at least some of the breakouts will be proposed by attendees the day before. Thursday will end with a short plenary session.

We have plenty of spaces booked and so there will be parallel tracks during the workshops and breakouts providing, between them, for new and potential Hydra adopters (both manages and developers); established managers; established developers; and for special interest groups

Friday will be used for working groups covering a wide range of topics nominated by the community.

More details and booking information can be found at:

https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra/Hydra+Connect+2+-+Fall+2014

A much more detailed draft program will be published on Friday 15^th August – watch this space!

If you can only make it to one Hydra meeting in the 2014/15 academic year, this is the one to attend!

Please feel free to forward this email to other interested parties.

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