We are pleased to announce the launch of OGF's new thought leadership series http://www.ogf.org/TLS/index.php. We are launching this to give thought leaders in OGF and the greater Grid and distributed computing community the opportunity to express their ideas, opinions and perspectives. One of the main goals we have in initiating this series is to stimulate discussion and provoke lively debate on a broad range of hot topics and issues facing the grid and distributed computing community. Wolfgang Gentzsch, Coordinator of the German D-Grid Initiative; Geoffrey Fox and Marlon Pierce, from the Community Grids Laboratory at Indiana University; and Ian Foster from Argonne National Lab and University of Chicago, kick-off the series. Wolfgang's article outlines the Top 10 Rules for Building a Sustainable Grid in his highly informative and practical discussion of the real world lessons he has learned in deploying Grids. Geoffrey and Marlon tackle the hard issues - Too much Computing, Too much Data and Never too much Simplicity - facing the e-Science community, specifically and the entire Grid community, in general, as emerging new computing resources (multicore, cell processors, GPUs, reconfigurable computing, etc) and alternative approaches to service architectures (collectively, Web 2.0) change the overall landscape. Ian Foster's article, "There's Grids in them thar Clouds", reprinted from his 1/08 blog entry, discusses whether or not "cloud computing" is just a new name for grid. OGF welcomes everyone to comment and encourages all thought leaders in the Grid and distributed computing community to submit articles for this series. Submitting is easy to do, simply email it to thoughtleadership@ogf.org. You will receive valuable recognition and visibility as a thought leader and your article may help, and influence, others in the community. Articles will also be considered for future OGF event content. In conjunction with the launch of the thought leadership series, we have also refreshed the OGF home page www.ogf.org in order to better highlight the key areas of value that we deliver to the industry, including our document series, events, and breaking news. Included in this effort is a new set of pages http://www.ogf.org/EventHighlights/index.php to showcase the valuable content our attendees produce for each OGF event. We hope you like the new look and find it easier to use! Finally, submissions are still being sought for the Special Journal Issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience for the Open Grid Forum. The deadline is March 15. Visit http://www.ogf.org/rotate_headers/rotate_special_issue.php to make a submission or for additional information. John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org