<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-family:"Droid Sans";color:rgb(67,59,42);font-size:14px">The DDI Training Group welcomes two new co-chairs: Jane Fry (Carleton University) and Anja Perry (GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences). They replace Amber Leahey (Scholars Portal), who served as chair for four years. The DDI Alliance is very grateful for the time and effort Amber put into training activities.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-family:"Droid Sans";color:rgb(67,59,42);font-size:14px">The mission of the Training group is to:</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(67,59,42);font-family:"Droid Sans";font-size:14px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Introduce people to DDI and improve people's competence in working with DDI</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Gear training to specific audiences</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Develop expertise within the community for training purposes</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Maintain a training library with updated training material for reuse</li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-family:"Droid Sans";color:rgb(67,59,42);font-size:14px">To fulfill this mission, the group is taking the following steps in the next year:</p><ol style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(67,59,42);font-family:"Droid Sans";font-size:14px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Complete sets of training material based on the output of a Train-the-Trainer Workshop at Dagstuhl in 2018 and add them to the Training Library for reuse.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Recruit new members for the group and additional instructors to be able to teach DDI to a wider audience.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Identify conferences and further outlets where DDI teaching can take place and set up a yearly teaching schedule.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Use GO FAIR to further promote DDI through training events.</li></ol><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-family:"Droid Sans";color:rgb(67,59,42);font-size:14px">The Training group is looking for more members! Interested in joining? Please contact Jane (<a href="mailto:jane.fry@carleton.ca" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(75,142,60);text-decoration-line:none">jane.fry@carleton.ca</a>) or Anja (<a href="mailto:Anja.Perry@gesis.org" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(75,142,60);text-decoration-line:none">Anja.Perry@gesis.org</a>).</p><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Jared Lyle</span><br></div></div><font color="#000000">Executive Director, <a href="https://ddialliance.org/" target="_blank"><span id="m_-3212212453213701981:2sl.12">DDI</span> Alliance</a><br><a href="https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/" target="_blank"><span id="m_-3212212453213701981:2sl.13">ICPSR</span></a>, University of Michigan<br><a href="mailto:lyle@umich.edu" target="_blank"><span id="m_-3212212453213701981:2sl.14">lyle</span>@<span id="m_-3212212453213701981:2sl.15">umich</span>.<span id="m_-3212212453213701981:2sl.16">edu</span></a></font><br><div><font color="#999999"><br></font></div><div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Follow the <span id="m_-3212212453213701981:2sl.17">DDI</span> Alliance on <a href="https://www.twitter.com/#!/ddialliance" target="_blank">Twitter</a></i></font></div></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><div><img src="cid:ii_k0gtxv630" alt="image.png" width="194" height="68" style="margin-right:0px"></div></div></div>
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