Dear APPS-RG members, it is my pleasure to announce that we have assembled an interesting program for GGF14. June 27th (monday), we will have a full-day workshop (09:00am to 05:00pm) on "Grid Applications: from Early Adopters to Mainstream Users" It comprises 11 accepted presentations, and 2 discussion sessions. Please see http://www.cs.vu.nl/ggf/apps-rg/meetings/ggf14.html for details! June 29th (wednesday), we will have a more general group meeting from 06:00pm to 07:30pm with the following agenda, covering an invited presentation: * 0:00 Welcome, opening * 0:05 Feedback on APPS workshop * 0:15 Discussion of future APPS workshops * 0:30 Presentation: Identifying and Fostering Applications on a Multipurpose Grid, Mary Fran Yafchak, Southeastern Universities Research Association, and Art Vandenberg, Georgia State University * 1:00 Open microphone round (general discussion): "Current issues of grid application developing and deployment?" * 1:30 Adjourn (If anybody would like to add something to this session, we are still free to modify the agenda a bit.) Please also see http://www.cs.vu.nl/ggf/apps-rg/ as well as www.ggf.org for general information. I am looking forward to meeting you in Chicago! Thilo Kielmann -- Thilo Kielmann http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/