<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="">Dear Member of the BOSC Community,<br class=""><br class="">The first ever GCCBOSC was a big success! Held at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, the meeting attracted over 275 people (the hardest-core of whom are just wrapping up the second part of the CollaborationFest, CoFest Encore). You can view the complete schedule at <a href="https://gccbosc2018.sched.com/" class="">https://gccbosc2018.sched.com/</a>. Many of the talk slides are already uploaded and linked to the corresponding pages on sched.com.<br class=""><br class="">Tweets about the meeting can be found at https://twitter.com/search?&q=%23GCCBOSC<br class="">Brad Chapman's summary is at https://github.com/chapmanb/bcbb/blob/master/posts/conferences/bosc2018_day1a.md<br class=""><br class="">Feedback about GCCBOSC has been mostly positive--the main complaint I heard was from people who are devotees of both GCC and BOSC, who were bummed that they had to choose between parallel tracks during some sessions.<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Please help us make decisions about BOSC 2019 by filling out the questionnaire: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckB5ckoxvXf8UoheO9qOiGuWYsMRXWoOu_HkQ0RATzXmQZQA/viewform<br class=""></b><b class="">We very much want feedback from as many BOSC community members as possible, including those who did not attend GCCBOSC. </b><b class=""><br class=""></b><div class=""><br class="">Thank you to everyone who attended GCCBOSC and helped make it a rewarding meeting! Those of you who couldn’t attend, we missed you, and hope to see you at future meetings!<br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Nomi Harris (Chair, BOSC 2018) and the BOSC organizing committee<br class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>