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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Dear Colleague, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">With the FAIR Convergence Symposium approaching <b>we seek expert evaluators to form a committee tasked with the review of session proposals received</b>. Your expertise and experience would be very much appreciated. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">The evaluations will be organised in the month of October; no more than 5 reviews will be assigned to each evaluator while taking into account their area of expertise. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">The sessions proposals to review may relate to any topics around FAIR issues, challenges and convergence. Four primary Symposium themes are:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:83.25pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">       </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Crisis Reduction and Response</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:83.25pt;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">       </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">FAIR Specifications</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:83.25pt;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">       </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">FAIR Society</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:83.25pt;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">       </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Data Stewardship: Training and Career Opportunities</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Please kindly contact <a href="mailto:hana@codata.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155cc">hana@codata.org</span></a> by October 5</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">, if you are interested and have availability to join the evaluating committee. In case you are/were involved in preparation of a session proposal as well, please indicate so in the email as well.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Thank you in advance for your time to support the Symposium preparations.  </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">With very best wishes, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222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