For a while now we've been sending out a new welcome message when people join this list, and someone pointed out to me that I should send this to all the "older" members too! The message is below for info. -- Dave Subject: Welcome to the Semantic Grid community Hello Thanks for subscribing to the sem-grd list. This mailing list supports the Semantic Grid community and is hosted by the Global Grid Forum (GGF), a forum for the international community leading the pervasive adoption of grid computing in research and industry. For further information about Semantic Grid, see www.semanticgrid.org GGF has a community activity known as the Semantic Grid Research Group (SEM-RG) which holds workshops and sessions at GGF events. Although this list carries discussion related to the activies of that group, it is not exclusive - GGF hosts the list for the benefit of the broader community and all aspects of Semantic Grid, and other Semantic Grid community events, are in scope for discussion here. We always welcome information for the semanticgrid.org Web site, such as calls for papers and event announcements. If you post announcements to the list, we can also put them on the Web Site - or send them to me dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk directly and I'll do both. GGF also provides a range of other community activities in the Grid computing area - see www.ggf.org for further information. If you are running an event you might be interested in doing it in conjunction with GGF - please contact us for further information. Regards -- Dave (also on behalf of Carole Goble and Geoffrey Fox) Prof David De Roure phone +44 (0)23 8059 2418 Head of Grid and Pervasive Computing fax +44 (0)23 8059 2865 School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton email dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK http://www.soton.ac.uk/~dder/