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@@ -11,12 +11,29 @@ This year's theme is "Enabling the next generation of computational biologists."
 - What funding sources have been helpful on your career path?
 
 
-The afternoon session will be an education session focused on helping undergraduate and graduate students learn to effectively use scientific computation. This session will begin with 10-minute contributed talks from the community discussing delivering computational coursework. We will follow this with a Birds of a Feather session aimed at getting instructors serving similar student groups together to discuss syllabi, technical challenges, and assessment. We will aim to answer the following questions:
+The afternoon session will be an education session focused on helping undergraduate and graduate students learn to effectively use scientific computation. This session will begin with 10-minute contributed talks from the community discussing delivering computational coursework. See below if you would like to contribute a talk on courses or workshops that you lead. We will follow this with a Birds of a Feather session aimed at getting instructors serving similar student groups together to discuss syllabi, technical challenges, and assessment. We will aim to answer the following questions:
 
 - What are evolutionary biologists being taught about computation?
 - What should evolutionary biologists be taught about computation?
 - What are the dominant technologies for serving course content to biologists, and how are they suceeding? How are they failing?
 
 Registration will be $85 for for faculty and professional attendees registering in conjunction with the Evolution meetings. Registration will be $30 for graduate students and postdocs in conjunction with the Evolution meetings.
 
-Register [here](link will someday be undead).
+Registration will be handled via the main conference registration site.
+
+### How to submit a proposal for a lightning talk or software bazaar?
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+We are going coordinate this pre-conference discussion through GitHub. GitHub is a website that can be used to share source code. It also provides a really nice forum-like discussion tool through "issues". We ask anyone who would like to present to the Software Bazaar or in
+lightning talk, to [open an issue](https://github.com/iEvoBio2019/2019-iEvoBio/issues/new). The issue is prepopulated with a template for each of the possible proposal types. Fill in the appropriate inputs for your submission. Each iEvoBio participant can submit one lighting talk and one Software bazaar proposal. 
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+We encourage all users to discuss these topics, find like-minded people to work with at iEvoBio or make contact with software developers for whom you have questions. The discussions on GitHub are subject to our [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/iEvoBio2019/2019-iEvoBio/blob/master/Conduct.md).
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+
+### What is GitHub and why do a need an account?
+
+We want the short amount of time we have for iEvoBio to be as useful as possible for everyone who attends. For that reason we encourage conference-goers to talk among themselves about what they might work on, talk about or hope to learn
+during the meeting.
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+In order to contribute to these discussion you will need to sign up for an account at https://github.com/join. [Github provides some nice documentation for making the most out of github issues](https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/),
+though none of the features described there are needed to contribute to a discussion.
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