FYI
>-- -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>-- Von: Morris Riedel [mailto:m.riedel@fz-juelich.de]
>-- Gesendet: Montag, 2. August 2010 13:33
>-- An: 'gin(a)ogf.org'
>-- Cc: 'David Wallom'
>-- Betreff: GIN additional co-chair election process
>--
>-- Dear GIN members,
>--
>--
>-- I really much appreciate that we experience more and more activities within the interoperability realm in the
>-- last year and that
>-- some of you already discussed with me SC2010 plans. Therefore, I believe it makes sense to fill the additional
>-- co-chair positions
>-- currently available in GIN to further push our interoperability efforts as well.
>--
>-- The election of the new co-chairs is an open process and the group decides. But please keep in mind that these
>-- positions should be
>-- filled as soon as possible and that these individuals should really invest time in the activity.
>--
>-- Hence, to support a faster election process, I already discussed with members of OGF and GIN folks possible
>-- candidates in the last
>-- months.
>--
>--
>-- I would therefore like to take the opportunity to recommend the group setup (in addition to my role) as follows:
>--
>--
>--
>-- (1)
>-- I recommend that Steve Crouch (U o Southampton, UK) would be one of the additional co-chairs.
>--
>-- Steve is active in GIN since a long time mainly though his major involvement in the continuation of the HPC-
>-- Basic Profile interop*
>-- demos under the GIN umbrella.
>--
>-- His major work would be to further push these HPC-Basic Profile interop* activities and further extend them as
>-- best as possible. One
>-- example might be the integration of other specifications like the file staging profile over time; another
>-- example how we can augment
>-- this demo with a complementary compliance check.
>--
>-- I already discussed this with Steve and he is willing to take this role once selected by the group.
>--
>--
>--
>-- (2)
>-- In addition to Steve and myself, I recommend that Kazushige Saga (NII, Japan) would be one of the additional co-
>-- chairs.
>--
>-- Kazu is actively working with us in GIN and its spin-off PGI with much enthusiasm. His participation, in OGF in
>-- general and in the
>-- context of GIN/PGI/HPC-BP demos in particular, is well known by colleagues in the interop* community and beyond.
>--
>-- Furthermore, with having already two European co-chairs with Steve and me, Kazu would be a suitable candidate in
>-- order to
>-- demonstrate that GIN is actively steered from members beyond Europe as well.
>--
>-- I already discussed this with Kazu and he is willing to take this role once selected by the group.
>--
>--
>--
>--
>--
>--
>-- Finally, please send me any serious objections (privately) to the proposed setup.
>--
>-- If I do not receive significant objections until the end of this week (2010-08-06), I see this setup as being
>-- agreed by the group.
>--
>-- Afterwards, I will be once again in contact with our 'OGF e-Research Function' vice president David Wallom (cc)
>-- to officially
>-- confirm the above recommended setup.
>--
>--
>-- Your co-chair,
>-- Morris
>-- ------------------------------------------------------------
>-- Morris Riedel
>-- Deputy Division Leader
>-- Distributed Systems and Grid Computing Division
>--
>-- Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
>-- Info: http://www.fz-juelich.de/jsc/JSCPeople/riedel
>--
>--
