<div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Early Bird registration for the Open Repositories Conference 2018 closes on 22nd April.</span><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0cm;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt"><span lang="NO-BOK"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.conftool.net/or2018/sessions.php" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://www.conftool.net/<wbr>or2018/sessions.php</span></a><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0cm;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt"><span lang="NO-BOK"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Outline Program:</span><u></u><u></u></font></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:36pt;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal">        <span> </span></span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span>, informal meet-ups from mid afternoon<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:36pt;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal">        <span> </span></span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Monday</span></span>, workshops please sign-up during registration as places are limited, Ideas Challenge reception and launch in the evening<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal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spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">There is more information about the conference at the<span> </span></span><a href="http://or2018.net/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(17,85,204)">conference website</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">. Keep up to date via our Twitter feed at<span> </span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/OR2018MT" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://twitter.com/OR2018MT</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"><span> </span>the hashtag for this year’s conference is<b><span> </span></b></span><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OpenRepo2018?src=hash" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;text-decoration:none">#OpenRepo2018</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">.</span><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0cm;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt"><span lang="NO-BOK"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">We look forward to seeing you in Bozeman.</span><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0cm;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt"><span lang="NO-BOK"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Best regards,</span><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0cm;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt"><span lang="NO-BOK"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Claire Knowles and Evviva Weinraub</span><u></u><u></u></font></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Program Committee Co-Chairs</span><u></u><u></u></font></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">On behalf of the</span><a href="http://www.or2018.net/program-committee/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span> </span>Program Committee</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"><span> </span>and<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.or2018.net/contact-us/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(17,85,204)">Local Hosts</span></a><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0cm;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt"><span lang="NO-BOK"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Code of Conduct<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.or2018.net/code-of-conduct/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.or2018.net/code-of-<wbr>conduct/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"><span> </span> </span><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0cm;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="NO-BOK" style="color:black">Openness Statement<span> </span></span><span lang="NO-BOK"><a href="http://www.or2018.net/open-repositories-statement-on-inclusion-and-openness/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.or2018.net/open-<wbr>repositories-statement-on-<wbr>inclusion-and-openness/</span></a></span></font></p><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Carol Minton Morris<div>Communications and Marketing Director</div><div>DuraSpace</div><div><a href="http://duraspace.org" target="_blank">duraspace.org</a></div><div>607 592-3135</div></div></div>
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