Dear Working Group Members:

We are excited to send you our first quarterly working group newsletter, which is one of the projects for 2020 that grew out of the first live meeting of the working group at the 2019 GLP Open Science Meeting in Bern.

For those members of the working group who were not able to participate in the OSM, we have posted a short recap of our sessions at our working group blog, followed by an outline of our planned activities in 2020.

To give you a sneak peek, in addition to this quarterly newsletter we are also working on:

- A co-production blog series with stories and practical experiences (including successes and failures) from the field. We will be publishing the first story, by WG Member Christine Ornetsmueller, in April. We invite you to submit your own personal stories and practical experiences for consideration to coproduction@glp.earth.

- A special journal issue about co-production in LSS.

- A creative set of live online events and group exchange formats.

All members are invited to join these activities.

Please also send us news, jobs, and events for this quarterly e-newsletter, as well as pass along feedback and proposals by emailing us at coproduction@glp.earth.

Your WG Coordinators,
Isabelle Providoli
Albrecht Ehrensperger
Narcisa Pricope
Jean-Christophe Castella

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