<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="" style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.649999618530273px;">Dear VO Community,</p><p class="" style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.649999618530273px;">We are writing to inform you that the <strong class="">*IVOA Northern Spring Interop meeting will be May 24-28, 2021*</strong> and ask you to "Save the Date" to participate in the meeting. </p><p class="" style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.649999618530273px;">We are planning a <b class="">Science Platform themed workshop</b> to be a focus throughout the May Interop. There will be 3 or 4 sessions sprinkled through the week. The sessions will start with presentations and then go toward discussions by the last session(s). </p><p class="" style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.649999618530273px;">We will also be asking the<b class=""> community for contributed presentations</b> and welcome your participation. There will be an email in a few weeks with a registration page and instructions for abstract submissions. </p><p class="" style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.649999618530273px;">The meeting organization will be similar to the 2020 Virtual Interop meetings. We will use Zoom as our shared remote service, and Etherpad for live notes and questions. We are planning to keep presentations to a single thread (no parallel sessions) and save a good amount of the time for your input and discussion. Sessions will be recorded and posted so that if you miss a session you can go back and view it. We will work to schedule sessions with reasonable times during the day for 2 of the 3 sessions a day in your time zone.</p><p class="" style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.649999618530273px;">So, welcome spring, save the date, and we look forward to another engaging IVOA meeting in May 2021.</p><p class="" style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.649999618530273px;">Best Regards,<br class="">-Janet & Pat<br class="">(for the IVOA TCG)</p></body></html>