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Global Galaxy Steering Committee

Keywords: Strategic emphasis, medium and long term planning, international opportunities

Galaxy is a mature, successful research software infrastructure project, with a large and diverse global audience. Changes in project governance structures are needed to help adapt to increasing complexity.

The Galaxy Executive Board has formed the Global Galaxy Steering Committee (GGSC) to represent the interests of communities engaged with the project, and to implement efficient consultative project governance structures for that purpose.


Community consultation - help wanted!

June 26 2021

Come and let us know your ideas for the committee to consider in a 2 year roadmap of projects to help make the community more valuable and useful to participants.

The Manifesto: Global Galaxy Steering Committee Charter

March 4, 2021

The GGSC will comprise collaborators from active Galaxy communities and will undertake consultation and projects to advance and sustain the interests of the community of communities now engaged with the project. Two major areas of activity are planned for the first year.

First, identify the range of common interests and roles shared by project participants in participating communities1. These are an increasingly important part of the project and are the primary issue for the Committee to consider. Our goal is to develop open governance processes that allow communities to contribute to priorities and project planning, so we will develop mechanisms supporting efficient, effective and inclusive representation.

Second, evaluate and explore the scientific social capital and discovery opportunities generated by these growing communities. Thousands of scientists from many different disciplines regularly sign on to a Galaxy service to analyse their data. As a result, they join a world wide community using a software framework that encourages collaborative sharing of training resources, tools, workflows and data. A shared analytic platform decreases technical friction, facilitating collaboration on discovery projects within and across disciplines. The tool library helps avoid substantial duplicative technical costs world-wide, as part of the growing social and economic value of this scientific research product. Our goal is to identify, prioritize and support activities that add value to this emergent resource, such as developing novel methods to integrate data across domains, communication mechanisms to support discovering and collaborating with other users, or novel application of standard methods from one domain to appropriate data from another.

See the Galaxy Governance Model for how the Steering Committee works with other parts of the community.

1 Such as project role (user, educator, system administrator, developer, learner, ..), scientific interest (Genomics, Natural Language Processing,..), institutional and professional affiliations and geographic time zone

Subcommittees

These are working groups, similar to the technical groups. They are open to interested community members willing to add their contribution. Please contact the committee member leading the project if you would like to learn more about participating in their work.

  • Membership - Dan Blankenberg
  • Misconceptions - Hans-Rudolf Hotz
  • Propeller onboarding cookbook - Anne Fouilloux
  • Global Science - Andrew Lonie
  • Small scale servers - Hans-Rudolf Hotz

Committee Members

Contact

You can reach the Galaxy Steering Committee via email.