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 Successful authors will have the opportunity to showcase their work in the form of posters on July 8 at the joint conference and workshop poster reception. The outcomes from the workshop group discussions will be included on the webscience.org website as a blog post after the conference.
 
 ## Important dates
-- Deadline for submission of position papers: **25 April 2020**
+- Deadline for submission of position papers: **30 April 2020**
 - Notification of acceptance/rejection: **25 May 2020**
 - Workshop: **7 July 2020** [tentative]