[ome-users] Hold the Date!!!! 11th Annual OME User Meeting, May 31 - June 1, 2016

[Jason Swedlow (Staff)]

Dear All-

It's that time of year again- planning for the Annual OME User Meeting has begun.  After lots of discussion, we've decided to give the team at Institut Pasteur a rest.... And hold the meeting in Dundee!  Dates are May 31 - June 1.  We are working on plans for development meetings for June 2-4.  More about that in the next week.

You might be thinking: "Wait, Dundee?!?!?!  Why would I come to... Dundee.  After 10 years in Paris,... Dundee?!?!?!?! "

Well, a few reasons:

1.  We really do need to give the Pasteur team a rest.  They have dutifully organised the meeting for the last 10 years, and we are hugely thankful for everything they have done, but they are incredibly busy this year, and we need to respect that.

2.  OME's funding is not infinite, and must ensure our funding goes as far as possible.  Frankly, not having to fund the travel of everyone associated with OME to Paris means we have more money to fund software development.

3.  Dundee is in Scotland, and as a few of you know, the end of May and beginning of June are (usually!) absolutely gorgeous in Scotland.  No one can guarantee anything about the weather this far north, but it's your best chance to see Scotland at its finest.

4.  Dundee is pretty cool.  Ok, it's not Paris, so your partners/spouses/friends/bosses/kids won't pine to come with you- but they should!!!  Take a look at http://metro.co.uk/2014/04/17/12-reasons-dundee-is-the-best-city-in-the-uk-4700950/.  Grand Theft Auto, Frankenstein, Aspirin, Dennis the Menace, and of course OME are all from Dundee.  (yeah, I know, still not Paris).

5.  There are direct flights to Edinburgh from all major European hubs on discount airlines, good train connections from around the UK, and direct flights from several US East Coast airports.  There's good train and bus transport from Edinburgh to Dundee and we are looking to coordinate transfers from Edinburgh airport to Dundee (more info coming).  For reference, it takes about as long to get from Edinburgh airport to Dundee as from CDG into the centre of Paris.  Glasgow is only about 15-20 min farther away than Edinburgh.

6.  Food and wine here are excellent- really.  And the people are amazing.  Whisky is pretty awesome, too.

7.  Best of all, we are working on another great programme, and it should be a terrific meeting, and a great chance to discuss what the community is doing, and where we are all going together.

So you should really think about joining us, showing off your cool work on imaging, and sharing your ideas on how this community needs to evolve.  We'll follow shortly with info about hotels, transport, programme, etc.

Looking forward to see you in a few months... here!!

Cheers,

Jason

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