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Reminder to register for OGF 42 in London and for the NSI working group meetings at Nordunet 2014
by Sill, Alan 19 Aug '14

19 Aug '14

The dates for OGF 42 are coming up on us quickly for our meeting in London at Imperial College, co-located with the CAC 2014 and other FAS* conferences 8-12 September. This is just a reminder to register; information on the conferences themselves and a link to the OGF 42 schedule are on our web site at the following link. https://www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/events/ogf-42 A direct link to the registration page is https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1569519 The early registration period is now over, so you can now select from the full conference rate, including the discounted rate for OGF or IEEE members as appropriate, or from the one-, two-, or three-day options for attendance if you plan to attend only certain days of the conference, workshops or OGF meetings. The schedule is available for OGF 42 at https://www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/events/ogf-42/schedule and for the CAC 2014 conference itself from links on that page to help you decide on the most appropriate rate. We do have some very exciting sessions planned, including ones in which we will discuss future options for OGF to evolve, modernize and grow its technology interest areas, and to plan future events. Please join us in London and communicate with your working group members, chairs and area directors as needed to help us make the most of this event.

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OGF 42 schedule and CAC 2014 schedule published; last day for early-bird registration is TODAY Friday 15 Aug; NSI-WG plans
by Sill, Alan 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

Dear OGF 42 participants and interested parties, Attached is the OGF 42 schedule for the week of 8-12 September 2014, including shared workshop, registration, reception and conference banquet information for the co-located CAC 2014 conference. If your group needs any adjustments to your scheduled times, please contact us as soon as possible. This schedule is also shown on the OGF home page at http://www.ogf.org and on the OGF 42 schedule page at http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-42/schedule We remind you that the last day for early registration for these co-located and co-registered events is TODAY, Friday August 15, and after this date the regular registration fees will apply. The schedule for the CAC conference itself is available at http://autonomic-conference.org Note that the OGF NSI working group and its associated activities will be held two weeks later at the Nordunet 2014 conference rather than at OGF 42 itself. The schedule for that event is available at https://events.nordu.net/display/NORDU2014/Programme and for additional information on the NSI-WG plans at that meeting, please contact Guy Roberts, Guy.Roberts(a)dante.net<mailto:Guy.Roberts@dante.net> Please note that the CloudWATCH project will have a concertation Thursday, September 11 in Brussels, for which reason the OCCI and related cloud sessions have been scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, and that the Security area groups will meet Friday Sep. 12 to allow time for people to get to these sessions who will be attending the EUGridPMA meeting earlier that week in Prague. The CloudWATCH project will also be sponsoring another in our series of Cloud Plugfest events also September 25, co-organized with EGI.eu<http://EGI.eu> and Fraunhofer FOKUS, to take place in Amsterdam. Information on that event is available at http://www.cloudwatchhub.eu/cloudwatch-cloud-plugfest-and-standards-profile… Overall it is a very busy September We look forward to seeing you at one or more of these OGF and related events! Alan, Andrew and Andre for the OGF Events team [cid:8BD114CB-340E-47E5-B009-06AA71F7C863@gateway.2wire.net]

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Request for feedback: Cloud Plugfest and Implementation Groups Day Dec. 12, 2014 following / in association with UCC 2014
by Sill, Alan 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Dear OGF folks, We are putting the final touches on OGF 42 plans for the colocation with the Cloud and Autonomic Computing conference and associated parallel events Sep. 1-12 in London and should have that schedule published for you shortly. As a reminder, the early registration for this event, which includes all activities of both OGF and the CAC 2014 conference sessions including the associated breaks, poster session and social events as described on the CAC 2014 site, has been extended to August 15. In planning for this event we heard from many who liked the co-location because they will be at one r another of the co-located conferences, and from others who would prefer a less expensive OGF-only location for some meetings. It is hard to do both, but we think we have found an another such location. At nearly the same location in early December is the Utility and Cluster Computing conference (UCC 2014, http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/ ), which will have over a dozen associated workshops (18 at last count, including one that Morris Reidel and I are co-chairing as indicated below - see http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/workshops/ for details). While encouraging attendance at all of the associated events of interest and encouraging both talking about OGF technologies and promoting the submission and production of new OGF work along the lines of the topics discussed there (e.g., new informational, community practice or experimental documents, etc.), we do not have any plans to hold an OGF per se as part of UCC 2014. The location of Imperial College, which is near the UCC 2014 venue, is possibly available to us for example the day after the conference ends, which would be Friday Dec. 12, and if so we would like to assess the interest of the community in holding one or more OGF sessions there after completion of the UCC 2014. This could be done at very low comparative cost and could make a quite handy location to hold things like a Cloud Plugfest and other meetings, concentrating for example this time on implementations of interest to our community (both of OGF and non-OGF technologies) and exploration of new, fast-moving technologies like application of grid methods in container and cloud settings, etc. If you would be interested in attending such a low-cost extension to follow after the activities of the UCC 2014 conference, please let me know or communicate your thoughts through your group leader or area director. Feel free to discuss this with your colleagues for example on any OGF group list you may be on before responding. For now, I'd like to call your attention to one of the workshops for UCC 2014 co-chaired by Morris Reidel and myself that is very much in the spirit of the topics discussed above, and invite you to send in a submission by the September 15, 2014 deadline: First International Workshop on Standards and Pre-Standards Topics in Clouds, Big Data and Data Analytics (SCBDA) To be held in conjunction with 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2014) London, UK, 8th – 11th December 2014 Website: http://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/EN/Expertise/Workshops/Conferences/scbda-2… Submissions should be sent via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scbda14 (This event calls for a Cloud Plugfest anyway, so it would be easy to make this coincident with the OGF event mentioned above.) Alan

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New document in public comment: Network Services Framework v2.0
by Greg Newby 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

Dear OGF Community: A new document has begun public comment. Please consider reading and providing feedback. Brief affirmations are very useful to demonstrate community input and support. More detailed analysis is, of course, welcome. All documents in public comment are accessible here: http://redmine.ogf.org/projects/editor-pubcom/boards Note that this is an updated location, using OGF's new Redmine tracker system. Anyone may register for a Redmine username. This document is newly available for public comment: * Network Services Framework v2.0. Informational track, via NSI-WG. -- Greg Newby, OGF Standards Editor Gregory Newby, Manager of the Supercomputing Core Laboratory. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. E: greg.newby(a)kaust.edu.sa M: +966 54 470 1773 O: +966 12 808 0678 Building 1 East-Room 3407, 4700-Thuwal, Jeddah 23955-6900. ksl.kaust.edu.sa

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