Hello At OGF19 (yes, GGF is now OGF...) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina at the end of January we are running a workshop looking at the future of the Web and the Grid - yes, it's not just semantic web and the Grid but Web 2.0 and the Grid! It's on January 29, the first day of the event. Our keynote speaker is Carole Goble on myExperiment, a personalised environment which enables scientists to share, re-use and repurpose experiments. myExperiment is a very exciting initiative which owes far more to social networking websites such as MySpace and YouTube than to the traditional portals of Grid computing. See the New Scientist piece "MySpace for the dudes in lab coats" http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg19225745.500 and Grid Today "'Me-Science' the New e-Science" http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/963514.html There will be invited talks starting with Web 2.0 101 (!) which includes both the philosophy and the technologies of Web 2.0, and (of course...) a Semantic Grid update too. We want the workshop to deliver a report that captures community practice so that we can have broader impact. So I am about to send out a call for position papers under the general theme of Web 2.0, e-Science and the Grid. These are short papers and one of the reasons for doing this is because I know some of you find it easier to get travel funds if you are presenting. BTW The discounted registration deadline for OGF19 is currently showing as December 8 on the OGF web site, but I have it on the best authority that this is being extended to December 15. Thanks and look forward to seeing you - watch this space and the web site for further info, and please circulate this message and the call to interested colleagues. -- Dave