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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ES link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES-TRAD>Dear EU Nodes,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES-TRAD><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>One of the actions agreed during the last European GBIF Nodes Meeting in Lisbon was to arrange more coordination meetings around ALA. So I would like to announce that GBIF Spain in collaboration with GBIF France are organizing a workshop for software developers working in European GBIF Nodes who would be interested in developing a national data portal based on ALA that will take place in Madrid in September/October 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We propose to organize a 5 days workshop: 3 days for "basic course" (ALA installation, and collectory, biocache and generic modules) with Santiago (GBIF Spain) and Marie Elise (GBIF France) as instructors; and 2 days for "advance course" with the ones with previous experience on ALA developments where Santiago could show the Species module and Marie Elise the Geospatial module. So participants could choose to stay the whole week or just attending the basic or advance course.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>First of all, to find a date that suits the most of the countries interested in attending the workshop, I have created a doodle poll:</span><span lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://doodle.com/poll/x2xvxannwb6dn7w6">http://doodle.com/poll/x2xvxannwb6dn7w6</a> . Please share your preferences there before June the 16<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>I look forward to hearing from you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>With best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Cristina<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:ES'>Cristina Villaverde</span><span style='mso-fareast-language:ES'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=ES-TRAD style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:ES'>GBIF.ES, Unidad de Coordinación Tel. +34 91 4203017 extensión 170<br>Real Jardín Botánico - CSIC <a href="mailto:villaverde@gbif.es"><span style='color:#404040'>villaverde@gbif.es</span></a><br>Plaza de Murillo, 2 <a href="http://www.gbif.es/"><span style='color:#404040'>www.gbif.es</span></a> </span><span lang=ES-TRAD style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:ES'><a href="http://datos.gbif.es/"><span style='color:#404040'>datos.gbif.es/</span></a></span><span lang=ES-TRAD style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:ES'><br>28014 Madrid, Spain </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:ES'><a href="https://twitter.com/GbifEs"><span style='color:#595959'>twitter.com/GbifEs</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:ES'> </span><span lang=ES-TRAD style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:ES'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=ES-TRAD style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:ES'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES-TRAD><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>