Urgent Call for Nominations for Open Grid Forum Area Directors
The Open Grid Forum (OGF) Nominations Committee (NOMCOM) is
soliciting nominations for open positions as Open Grid Forum Area
Directors. These positions need to be filled immediately to ensure
the continued smooth running of the OGF Standards function.
The open positions arise from resignations and from the transition
from the GGF and EGA to the merged OGF where previous Area Directors
have moved to other leadership positions.
All members of the OGF are eligible to stand for these positions and
are encouraged to do so.
You can submit your candidate nominations to nomcom(a)ogf.org or to any
of the NOMCOM members listed below. Self-nominations are accepted.
Due to the requirement to fill these positions urgently the deadline
for nominations for these positions is midnight Sunday, September
10th, 2006 UTC.
Positions:
There are positions open in the following areas:
• Area Director Data (up to 2)
• Area Director Management (up to 1)
• Area Director Security (up to 2)
Area Directors are responsible for management and development of a
specific topic or area in OGF, but some flexibility is also desirable
as Area Directors may be asked to deal with important issues from
other areas.
You can get further information about the positions, the requirements
for the positions and the selection process by sending an email to
nomcom(a)ogf.org with your questions. Further information is also
available at http://www.ggf.org/nomcom.
Notes:
The OGF membership programme is described at http://www.ogf.org/
merger_docs/MembershipIndividual.pdf.
This is an interim call for positions that require immediate filling.
The full NOMCOM process will start at GGF18, with the aim of having
new Vice Presidents, Area Directors and at large board members in
place by Spring 2007.
Terms begin as soon as possible and last until Spring 2007. These
terms may be extended to full-length 3-year terms through the normal
NOMCOM process.
To make a nomination send an email to nomcom(a)ogf.org or contact
anyone of the members of the nominating committee below.
ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED TO NOMCOM WILL BE KEPT IN CONFIDENCE AND
WILL BE USED ONLY DURING DELIBERATIONS OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE.
NOMCOM 2006 Committee members:
Jill Arnold jillar - internet2.edu
Neil P Chue Hong N.ChueHong - epcc.ed.ac.uk
Michel Drescher Michel.Drescher - uk.fujitsu.com
Thomas J Hacker hacker - purdue.edu
Tomasz Haupt haupt - cavs.msstate.edu
Ralph Niederberger r.niederberger - fz-juelich.de
Andreas Savva andreas.savva - jp.fujitsu.com
Alan Sill Alan.Sill - ttu.edu
Thomas Soddemann Thomas.Soddemann - rzg.mpg.de
Philipp Wieder ph.wieder - fz-juelich.de
NOMCOM 2006 non-voting members:
Sven van den Berghe sven.vandenberghe - uk.fujitsu.com (Chair)
Dietmar Erwin d.erwin - fz-juelich.de (Previous Chair)
Ramin Yahyapour ramin.yahyapour - udo.edu (SG Liaison)
Dear OGF/GGF/EGA Participant,
Over this last weekend, Open Grid Forum (OGF) completed its process for
electing the At-Large Board representatives. Please join me in
congratulating our new At-Large Board members:
- Jason Carolan, Sun Microsystems
- Charlie Catlett, TeraGrid, U of Chicago/Argonne Labs
- Dr. Hiro Kishimoto, Fujitsu
- Dr. Bill Nitzberg, Altair Engineering/PBSPro
- Paul Strong, eBay
These five At-large members will join the board representatives from our ten
Platinum organizational members:
- Intel
- Oracle
- IBM
- Network Appliance
- Microsoft
- Hewlett-Packard
- Fujitsu-Siemens
- UK eScience/DTI
- EMC Corporation
- Platform Computing.
The fifteen Board Members will hold their first OGF Board meeting in the
Cupertino, CA on August 24th. At our Town Hall session at GridWorld/GGF18
in Washington DC, the OGF community will have the opportunity to meet
several members of the new Board along with members of the OGF leadership
team.
Please join me in congratulating the At-Large members of the Board and take
time to greet and meet with them at GridWorld/GGF18 in Washington DC
(September 11-14). If you are interested in the process followed for the
At-Large election, please refer to:
http://www.ogf.org/merger_docs/OGFBoardInitialAppointmentAgreement.pdf.
Steve Crumb
Executive Director, OGF
scrumb(a)ogf.org
+1 312-895-5931 (new)
This Recommendation Track document has entered
60-day public comment:
1. Information Dissemination in the Grid Environment.
S. Davey et al., via the INFOD-WG.
You can view the document and make comments here:
http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?public_comment
A healthy public comment period is a sign of a valued document,
and an active and engaged working group. Please
consider reading and responding to this document during
the public comment period.
-- Greg Newby, GGF Editor
All - Tomorrow (Saturday, 12 August) there will be a brief period of
downtime for the GGF websites to correct a hardware issue (a packet-
dropping network interface).
The downtime will be between 8:00-10:00am CDT (13:00-15:00 GMT) and
likely will not last the whole scheduled time.
Effected systems are Gridforge (forge.gridforum.org) and www.ggf.org
and www.ogf.org websites. These systems will most likely remain up,
but will lose database access during this period and so will have
degraded functionality.
Thanks,
Joel
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Joel Replogle - Manager of Standards, Global Grid Forum
replogle(a)ggf.org http://www.ggf.org
