Hi @all, As of today we got more than 170 members on the mailing-list and 30 members for our gridforge project. First of all thank you all and welcome to OCCI! With this email I want to welcome everybody who recently joined and give a short update of what we are currently up to! The group started as Cloud API earlier this year (March) and got a constant grow from there on. In the beginning we actively discuss the charter and the very basics of our RESTful API. At OGF26 we presented our progress and we try to present a first implementable draft by OGF27 later on this year. So we will be one of the first standardized APIs in the Cloud area. If you want to know who is involved (and maybe add your own name) have a look at our Memberslist in the Wiki (Can be found via http://www.occi-wg.org). Currently we are writing up the documents - that is the reason why the discussions on the mailing-list have stalled a little bit. For a current status do not hesitate to look at our gridforge page and have a look in the SVN. If you want to get involved have a look at http://www.occi-wg.org. There you will find links to our Meeting-materials, Press releases, Presentations, collaboration efforts with other groups etc. Our weekly teleconference call is scheduled every Wednesday @4pm CET. If you have questions, ideas or want a more detailed status update feel free to join! I am looking forward to hear you there! You can find all the details howto connect in the Wiki! All the best, -Thijs -- Thijs Metsch Tel: +49 (0)941 3075-122 (x60122) http://blogs.sun.com/intheclouds Software Engineer Grid Computing Sun Microsystems GmbH Dr.-Leo-Ritter-Str. 7 mailto:thijs.metsch@sun.com D-93049 Regensburg http://www.sun.com