Following the distribution of a draft charter a couple of weeks ago, we held a BOF at GGF13 last week on this proposed new research group. Notes of the meeting, with copies of the presentations, and a draft charter are at the group's temporary web site: http://www.softeng.ox.ac.uk/Andrew.Martin/TC/index.html There appeared to be a fair amount of support, and general interest in at least some of the items in the draft charter. We remain uncertain about whether to include the production of a roadmap document as part of the initial charter or not. Discussion of the charter and the research group's formation is now welcome. Please use this mailing list: if the traffic becomes too high, no doubt a separate list can be created. Best regards Andrew Martin Wenbo Mao