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UR-WG telcon confirmed
by Stephen M Pickles 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

All, Given two votes for option (c), I've booked the call for 06 April 20006 accordingly. Scheduled Start Time: 14:00 British Summer Time (09:00 Pittsburgh, 15:00 Sweden and Germany). Here are the dial-in numbers: Primary Dial-in Number: 0844.888.8888 (UK 5p National Rate) Alternate Dial-in Numbers: If your conference includes Participants located outside of the U.K., you can choose more than one dial-in phone number. As long as everyone participating in your conference enters the same Participant Access Code, they will be joined together. +44.870.088.5706 (For Callers Outside of the U.K.) 01805.004.102 (For Callers in Germany) Participant Access Code: 61652 (provide this when prompted) Conference UK asks organisers to estimate duration and number of callers as best they can (because reserving a call ties up resources, consistent overbooking is frowned upon). I've taken a stab at 40 minutes duration (the call should automatically extend, but this is not guaranteed) and 15 participants (I think less is likely, but I'll have a better idea after the first one). Talk to you then, Stephen ==================== Stephen M. Pickles ==================== Technical Director, Grid Operations Support Centre Manchester Computing Room G49.1, Kilburn Building The University of Manchester tel: +44 161 275 5974 Oxford Road fax: +44 161 275 6800 Manchester M13 9PL stephen.pickles(a)manchester.ac.uk

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UR-WG telcons
by Stephen M Pickles 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

At GGF16, we agreed to hold some telcons to progress the changes to the UR-WG spec. I think we need to start these now. The proposed time was 14:00 Thursday (GMT) which then corresponded to 09:00 (East Coast US), and 15:00 (western Europe). The UK and most of Europe have now started summer time, but the US doesn't follow suit until next week. I can set up a call using the "Web-Scheduled Standard" option on http://www.conferenceuk.com/. Should I go for: a) this week (Thursday 30th March) at 09:00 Pittsburgh time (15:00 UK, 16:00 Germany) b) this week (Thursday 30th March) at 08:00 Pittsburgh time (14:00 UK, 15:00 Germany) c) next week (Thursday 6th April) at 09:00 Pittsburgh, (14:00 UK, 15:00 Germany) The default is (c). Stephen ==================== Stephen M. Pickles ==================== Technical Director, Grid Operations Support Centre Software Infrastructure Manager, RealityGrid Manchester Computing Room G49.1, Kilburn Building The University of Manchester tel: +44 161 275 5974 Oxford Road fax: +44 161 275 6800 Manchester M13 9PL stephen.pickles(a)manchester.ac.uk

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UR-WG update
by Laura F McGinnis 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

I apologize for the lack of followthrough since our meeting in Athens. I know how frustrating it is to build good momentum and then have nothing happen as planned/hoped. Unfortunately, my father passed away the week after I got back from Athens and, needless to say, that put a serious dent in my plans and time. I have requested a session for GGF17 in Tokyo, and it is my sincerest hope that we will have made some meaningful progress on answering the comments well before then. If you are interested in helping move this process forward, the comments are all available on gridforge. Feel free to post responses there, or cut & paste the comment into an email to ur-wg(a)gridforum.org, and post a response to the mailing list. As soon as I get some breathing room in my schedule, I'll give UR-WG the attention I committed to in Athens. Thanks for your understanding and patience. LM ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Laura F. McGinnis, Project Coordinator Data & Information Resource Services Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center email: lfm(a)psc.edu 4400 Fifth Avenue, # 409D voice: 412-268-5642 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 fax: 412-268-8200 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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meeting at GGF17?
by Rosario Michael Piro 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

Dear all, since I'm interested to attend GGF17 I wondered wether there is a meeting/session planned for the UR-WG? Cheers, Rosario. -- ------------------------------------- Rosario Piro (piro(a)to.infn.it) http://www.to.infn.it/~piro/ ------------------------------------- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Torino ------------------------------------- National Insitute for Nuclear Physics Section of Turin, Italy -------------------------------------

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New chair for UR-WG proposed
by Stephen M Pickles 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

At the UR-WG meeting at GGF16 last week, we discussed the problem that the current chairs of UR-WG are no longer active in GGF. The consensus of the meeting was that the current chairs need to be replaced. Laura McGinnis was nominated as the new chair of UR-WG, accepted the nomination, and had unanimous support from the meeting. Indeed, Laura has effectively been acting chair for some time. This decision needs to be confirmed on the list, and ratified by the GFSG. If you have any comments on or objections to this course of action, or would like to nominate an alternative or additional chair (self-nominations welcome), now is the time to speak. You may do so on this list, or by private communication to your Area Directors. (UR-WG is in the Management Area, and its Area Directors are Hiro Kishimoto and John Tollefsrud). I would like to take the new chairs proposal to the GFSG, which next meets on Tuesday. So please make any comments by Monday. I will send out a more comprehensive set of notes from the UR-WG meeting at GGF16 shortly. Stephen ==================== Stephen M. Pickles ==================== Technical Director, Grid Operations Support Centre Manchester Computing Room G49.1, Kilburn Building The University of Manchester tel: +44 161 275 5974 Oxford Road fax: +44 161 275 6800 Manchester M13 9PL stephen.pickles(a)manchester.ac.uk

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