We will be running a series of Scratchpad training courses, tacked on to various meeting during 2009. The first will be run at end of the e-Biosphere meeting this June, and at the time of writing we still have a few places left (four to be exact). This course will be on Thursday June 4th at the Natural History Museum. An outline of this free 1-day event can be found at http://scratchpads.eu/training. If you or your colleagues are interested in attending, please use this web form to sign up. From this form you can choose to sign up for the course when it is run at the BioSyst 2009 conference (Leiden, Monday 10 August) and the EDIT general meeting (late 2009, TBC).

We (specifically Simon Rycroft) will also be running a new 1-day developers course that is provisionally scheduled for the TDWG meeting in Montpellier this November. The developers course is intended for those interested in extending or hosting the Scratchpad platform. Feel free to distribute the attached poster advertising the event: