Dear GIN team, since Erwin Laure and Thomas Soddemann resigned from their co-chair positions it's time to think about at least one successor. We have an open process in GIN and thus, of course, any member of GIN is invited to propose/nominate a new candidate for this co-chair position via the mailing list! Nevertheless, I recommend that this candidate should have already experience in the GIN work and that the daily business of this person is closely related to a production infrastructure (e.g. TeraGrid, OSG, NAREGI, PRAGMA, EGEE, DEISA, NGS, ...). In addition, this person should have the time availability to work in the field of interoperability of infrastructures, especially enabling e-science applications that require cross-Grid resources. This will be an important next focus of GIN and thus it is quite important that the new co-chair is capable of working in this field. In this context, I would like to take this opportunity to propose a specific well-known GIN member for this position: Laurence Field (EGEE) As some of you certainly noticed over the last years, Laurence is active in GIN since its start, participated in nearly all GIN demonstration events, especially in the area of GIN information handling. As a consequence, he certainly fulfills all the requirements mentioned above, in particular while working within EGEE in the area of interoperability with numerous other infrastructures. So, please let me know (confidentially) if you see any problems with this proposal/nomination. Afterwards, we evaluate them together with our area directors. Best regards from Grid 2008 in Japan, Morris ------------------------------------------------------------ Morris Riedel SW - Engineer Distributed Systems and Grid Computing Division Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) Forschungszentrum Juelich Wilhelm-Johnen-Str. 1 D - 52425 Juelich Germany Email: m.riedel@fz-juelich.de Info: http://www.fz-juelich.de/jsc/JSCPeople/riedel Phone: +49 2461 61 - 3651 Fax: +49 2461 61 - 6656 Skype: MorrisRiedel "We work to better ourselves, and the rest of humanity" Sitz der Gesellschaft: Jülich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Düren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrats: MinDirig'in Bärbel Brumme-Bothe Vorstand: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Vorsitzender), Dr. Ulrich Krafft (stellv. Vorsitzender)