OGF 34 is approaching and I finally found the time to request a BoF session to start a new Cloud Interoperability group. I would like to invite all of you and everyone you know who might be interested to join the session and help start the CI-WG. Besides that, I would be glad to help organize some OCCI sessions at OGF 34. Who will be able to attend? What could be the topics for the sessions? The summary for the CI-WG session is: Interoperability in Cloud Computing is of increasing importance. Several cloud standards have emerged in recent years and implementations for them are starting to show up. Customers and providers interested in using the standards are requiring best-practise documents for using or implementing the different standards and also rely on information how they can combine multiple standards. This BoF session will present current challenges in Cloud Interoperability and aims at collecting ideas, approaches and experience in this area as starting point for a new Cloud Interoperability Working Group. This group shall also serve as a forum for engagement with other standards organizations and exploration of interoperability of OGF cloud standards work, and of software based on that work, with standards and software from other organizations. The agenda for the CI-WG session is: * Introduction to cloud standardization * Overview of current challenges in cloud interoperability * Collecting ideas, approaches and experience in this area as starting point for a new Cloud Interoperability Working Group. * Survey of existing plug-fests and other interoperability points of contact * Collaboration with other organizations Cheers, Florian