<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-14b2917a-7fff-58d5-b52a-667d76b108f9"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear RDAP Community, </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">RDAP has been invited to a NSF-funded workshop after CNI in St. Louis on April 9 and 10 on “</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iXyMZaBYfHaU6z7aaPN0708XFFv79X3-0-qlHlQQec0/edit" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Defining, sharing, and strengthening the ecosystem of research</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">”. The purpose is to bring together organizations that are similar and related to learn about each other and craft a holistic ecosystem of educational technologies, research data, and computing. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As representatives of RDAP and thus YOU, we want to be sure that your voice and ideas are heard and incorporated into our message. Please consider and </span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">respond by April 3rd, 2019</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p></font><ul><li><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-14b2917a-7fff-58d5-b52a-667d76b108f9"><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">What is the value that data practitioners can bring to this larger ecosystem? </span></span></li><li><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-14b2917a-7fff-58d5-b52a-667d76b108f9"><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">What would you hope that a supergroup like this may support or provide? </span></span></li></ul><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Here is the complete list of the organizations attending: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Big Data Hubs, Campus Champions (CC), Campus Research Computing Consortium (CaRCC), Carpentries, Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC), Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), Education Opportunities (HPC University, SIG HPC Education), EDUCAUSE, EPOC/CI Engineers, Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI), GPN/Regional Network, HPC Systems Professionals, Midscale Experimental Research Infrastructure Forum (MERIF), Open Science Grid (OSG), Research Data Access &amp; Preservation Association (RDAP), Women in HPC (WHPC), Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), Minority Serving Institutions / Historically Black Colleges &amp; Universities</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you! </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Erica Johns &amp; Amy Neeser </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">RDAP Executive Board </span></p></font></span></div>