GGF eNewsletter
1. Community Program for GridWorld/GGF15 Announced
2. GridWorld/GGF15 Registration Deadline Approaching
3. GridWorld/GGF15 Hotel Details
4. Leadership Award Nominations
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1. Community Program Announced
Community Program sessions include:
*Grid for Managers Tutorial (available at an additional fee)
*Technology updates from Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII),
Globus, OGSA-DAI, New Technologies for Science Portals
*Workshops, invited talks and panels on technologies and applications
including: Security and Privacy Needs of Health Grids, Leveraging Site
Infrastructure for Multi-Site Grids, Grid Use Cases, Campus Grids, User
Management and Access Control within the Grid, Use of Web Services for
Network Monitoring Applications, Building Geographical Information System
Grids, Provisioning & Managing Switching Infrastructure as a Grid Resource
and Web Services Performance Issues & Research
Visit http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_schedule_ggf15.htm for a complete
listing of Community activities, abstracts and further opportunities for
engagement.
2. Registration Deadline
Advanced registration for GridWorld/GGF15 (3-6 October, Boston) is closing
in just a few days. Take advantage of significant savings by registering
during the month of August for this exciting event. Register online at:
http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_regstrtn_ggf15.htm
3. GridWorld/GGF15 Hotel Information
Be sure to book your hotel room at the conference hotel, The Boston Park
Plaza, by calling toll free at (800) 225-2008 in the U.S. and
Canada. Outside the U. S. and Canada call (617) 426-2000. Be sure to
mention that you are attending GridWorld to receive the $161 per night
discounted room rate. Hotel cut-off date is 7 September.
4. Nominations sought for Leadership Award
GGF is seeking nominations for future recipients of the GGF Leadership
Award. The first Leadership Award was presented to Hiro Kishimoto of
Fujitsu at GGF14 in Chicago. For further information, please visit
http://www.ggf.org/ggf_rotate_leadership_award.htm.
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Steve Crumb
Executive Director, Global Grid Forum
+1 630-252-8610 (Office)
+1 630-915-3324 (Cell)
scrumb(a)ggf.org
GGF eNewsletter
August 8, 2005
1. OGSA-RSS-WG Approved
2. GridWorld/GGF15 Registration Savings
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1. GFSG Approves OGSA-RSS-WG
The Open Grid Services Resource Selection Service Working Group
(OGSA-RSS-WG) was recently approved by the GFSG. The OGSA-RSS-WG will
provide protocols and interface definitions for the Selection Services
portion of the Execution Management Services (EMS) part of the Open Grid
Services Architecture. The group's email list is ogsa-rss-wg(a)ggf.org and
its GridForge project can be found at:
http://forge.ggf.org/projects/ogsa-rss-wg.
2. GridWorld/GGF15 (3-6 October, 2005, Boston, MA, USA)
Advanced registration for GridWorld/GGF15 (3-6 October, Boston, MA) is
open! GGF participants receive a $300 discount from the standard GridWorld
pricing and registration fees are discounted an additional $200 if you
register in August. Take advantage of these significant savings (up to
$500) by registering today at:
http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_regstrtn_ggf15.htm.
GridWorld/GGF15 will feature three concurrent programs: an Enterprise
Program (4-5 Oct.), a Community Program (3-6 Oct.), and GGF Group Sessions
(3-6 Oct.). For more information on these programs, please visit:
http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_schedule_ggf15.htm.
Steve Crumb
Executive Director, Global Grid Forum
+1 630-252-8610 (Office)
+1 630-915-3324 (Cell)
scrumb(a)ggf.org
