Group Chairs - The deadline for requesting a session at OGF19 is 17 November, please submit your requests ASAP! OGF19 will be held in Chapel Hill, NC USA on 29 January - 2 February, 2007. This event will be focused on group sessions, and will be a week long with a plenary "alignment" day on Wednesday. To facilitate productive group sessions, groups are encouraged to request multiple sessions that will be scheduled back-to-back if at all possible. To request a group session for your WG/RG/CG or a BoF session, please go to the following link for Group Session Requesting instructions and the link to the request form: http://www.ogf.org/ggf_events_next_chairinfo.htm If you would like submit a proposal to be reviewed by the OGF19 Program Committee, please respond to the Call for Participation here (Note that the deadline is also 17 November): http://www.ogf.org/OGF19/events_cfp_ogf19.php The scheduling deadlines are: Draft Documents: - Deadline for submitting working drafts is 29 December, 2006. Session Requests: - Deadline for session requests for a CG, WG or RG is 17 November, 2006 - Deadline for AD Hoc/Charter Discussion BOFs is 17 November, 2006. We anticipate that the schedule will be finalized by the last week in November. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- Joel Replogle - Manager of Standards, Open Grid Forum replogle@ogf.org http://www.ogf.org