{"id":147525,"date":"2021-12-01T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/force11.org\/?p=147525"},"modified":"2022-01-25T12:17:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T12:17:29","slug":"welcome-to-force2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/force11.org\/post\/welcome-to-force2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to FORCE2021!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you remember your last in-person conference? I do. I fondly remember reconnecting with familiar faces and learning alongside people brought together by shared interests. Yet some of the memories aren\u2019t so warm: uncomfortable shoes, the buffet littered with dietary no-nos, some especially cringeworthy circus-themed post-lunch entertainment, and even connectivity problems when I misplaced my adapter!&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/force2021.eventbrite.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I also remember my first online conference, the Creative Commons Global Summit in November, 2020. As a conference volunteer, I remember how we scrambled to figure out what was possible: Recording? Networking? Translation?&nbsp; Dance party? It was a formative and transformative experience. And as transformative as it was for me, it was no doubt even more transformative for people who rarely had access to in-person conferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, with over a year of online conferences to learn from, it\u2019s clear the innovations of online conferencing have set guideposts for the future of scholarly communication. Over the past nine months, the <a href=\"\/conference\/post\/force2021-committees\/\">FORCE 2021 Organizing Committee<\/a>\u00a0 has worked tirelessly to create a conference that draws on the best of what we\u2019ve all learned about global online events. Under the leadership of <a href=\"\/members\/osman-aldirdiri\/\">Osman Aldirdiri<\/a>,\u00a0we\u2019ve crafted an event that aspires to be as welcoming as possible to scholarly innovators and communicators from all disciplines, geographies, communities, and career stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope you will join us December 7-9 at <a href=\"\/force2021\/\">FORCE2021: Joining Forces to Advance the Future of Research Communications<\/a> for an event centering exchange and open discussion. We are members of all of the communities that make up FORCE11&#8211;scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers, research funders, and more, broadly and inclusively defined. If you care about the future of research communications and the technologies that are enabling new possibilities, <a href=\"\/force2021\/\">learn more about the conference<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/force2021.eventbrite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">REGISTER<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Jennifer Miller for the FORCE2021 Organizing Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"\/post\/welcome-to-force2021\/\">Welcome to FORCE2021!<\/a> by Jennifer Miller for the FORCE2021 Organizing Committee is licensed under <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/?ref=chooser-v1\" target=\"_blank\">CC BY 4.0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember your last in-person conference? I do. 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