Dear colleagues, As you probably have already noticed, we have 2 GIN sessions scheduled for OGF21, both on Monday, October 15. See http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/?event_id=8 for a full schedule of OGF21. In the first session, from 1:30pm to 3:00 pm (http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/index.php?id=874) we will discuss a few group related issues, the status of the experimental documents, as well as plans for GIN related SC'07 demos. We will also start the discussion of the worker node profiles. The second session, from 3:15 pm to 4:45 pm (http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/index.php?id=873) will see a continuation of the worker node profile discussion and we will use this session also to prepare ourselves for the panel discussions with software providers later in the week. As you remember from our discussions at OGF20, we try a new thing this time and engage in a panel discussion with software providers. See http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1766 for details. These panel is most likely scheduled on Thursday, 1:30pm to 3:00pm with Wednesday 5:00pm to 6:30pm as a potential alternate slot. Please not this in your agenda and be present there - it will be a unique possibility to engage with a large number of software providers at the same time. Looking forward to seeing you in Seattle! Best regards, -- Thomas Soddemann, Erwin Laure, Morris Riedel