<div dir="ltr">Dear Eda, <div><br></div><div>With my whole heart I thank you for all these long years doing IM for your site and always participating in the IMC. Your spirit shaped the IMC, influenced our practices both informally and in the writing of our bylaws. You have been an example of doing what is needed for the IMC as a whole, with your recent term as DataBits as just one example. </div><div><br></div><div>Yet I am glad to hear you are looking forward to this next chapter of life for yourself because you do deserve to enjoy your retirement. And I hope it helps you accept this change to know that this new crew of site IMs appear to be eager and trained in the new generation of technical skills. I can say this is a good time to be handing over the reins. </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your years of service to the IMC!</div><div>Gastil</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 7:50 AM Eda C. Melendez-Colom <<a href="mailto:edacorreo@yahoo.com">edacorreo@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_4088956133527595058ydpc66ca441yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><div>Saludos,</div><div><br></div><div>I want to tell you that I have not been active/responsive to your emails and working groups because I have been preparing for retirement. This will happen on Dec 31, 2018. Till then, I will remain active with the DEIMS group but will not take any more responsibilities for obvious reasons.</div><div><br></div><div>Things has gotten difficult in my institution and I don't have the patience neither the physical stamina to endure what is happening and what is yet to come. I suggested <span><span><span><span>my Boss, Jess Zimmerman,</span></span></span></span> to give me a professional contract so I can remain working for LUQ and the LTER but I don't think that is going to happen due to the difficult times that my University is going through. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I want you to know that if I was able to endure the past 29 years, in a great part, was thanks to the camaraderie and good hard work I was always engaged with you, the IMs. We have been a great group and I sincerely hope that this group never looses its path to collaboration and its ability to learn from each other and work harmoniously together, something that I dare to say we have been a model of in the LTER scientific community, local and internationally, for many years.</div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><span><span> I am writing my farewell letter early to spare Jess the uneasy task
of telling you I am retiring in the next ASM. He will be there
substituting me (due to my doctor's order not to flight) so please take good care of him.</span></span><br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><span><span>I have to be honest and tell you that although I am sad not be able to
continue working with my fellow IMs and co-workers at my office, I am
looking forward to this new stage of my life.</span></span><br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>You will remain in my mind and heart and I hope we will see each other some day.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Stay cool. Enjoy the meeting!<br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>: )<br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>EDA</span></div><div><br></div><div class="m_4088956133527595058ydpc66ca441signature"><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span><div>Eda Celina Meléndez Colom</div><div>LUQ Information Manager</div><div>Department of Environmental Sciences<br>Natural Science Department<br></div><div>University of Puerto Rico</div><div>Río Piedras Campus</div><div>Tel (787) 764-0000, Ext. 888225</div></span></div></div></div>
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<div style="direction:ltr">Thanks Kristin for bringing him into our discussion. Yes, we will include him in the group list, and we can give him 15-20 mins to demonstrate Dkan features during the meeting. Can you please send me his email address, so I can
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Jason Tallant, the information manager from the Michigan Biological Station, would like to join the DEIMS working group meeting at ASM remotely. He has a possible solution to the challenge of migrating DEIMS to a new
version or platform when the time comes. There is another Drupal data management system called dkan that he is migrating his DEIMS in to. Would it be possible for him to join your working group via zoom? He can demonstrate some of the features of dkan
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