Dear OGF working and community groups, Well-timed for the imminent release of the OCCI 1.2 specification set (which was done some time ago but got delayed for trivial numbering and copyright text issues), I'd like to call your attention to Cloud Interoperability Plugfest 24 to take place from 19 - 22 September 2016, co-sponsored the CloudWatch2 project as a virtual event and physically colocated with Storage Networking Industry Association's Storage Developer Conference 2016 taking place at that time in Santa Clara, CA, USA. As is the tradition with Cloud Interoperability Plugfests, participation is *not* limited to testing against standards originating from the organizing standards development body (in this case, SNIA). Per the organizers, "you are just as welcome if you would like to test interoperability on standards stewarded not only by SNIA, but also (in no particular order) OGF, OASIS, DMTF, ETSI, IEEE, and many, many more." The common goal here is interoperability and hands-on testing, If you will have implementations to test for OGF or other standards, for example OCCI, CDMI, CIMI, TOSCA, CAMP, XACML, SAML, X.509 profiles, or against anything that is useful in the context of your collaboration or cyber-infrastructure project (standards-based or not!), please register and feel free to make use of the test platforms we will make available for this event, which include special interoperability test projects in the CloudLab and Chameleon frameworks, Participation is open to anyone and free of charge, either as an in-person SDC2016 visitor (guest passes for Cloud Plugfest participation in person are available for free in limited quantities), or from remote locations, with the only requirement being to register at the website http://www.cloudplugfest.org/. We thank the CloudWatch2 project and SNIA for co-sponsoring this event. If you have something you would like to see tested or instantiated for others to test at this or a future Cloud Plugfest event, please contact the Cloud Plugfest planners (which include OGF representation) at planners@lcoudplugfest.org<mailto:planners@lcoudplugfest.org> and consider signing up for this event or for information on future events at http://cloudplugfest.org Alan Sill, Ph.D Interim Senior Director, High Performance Computing Center Director, NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing Adjunct Professor of Physics, Texas Tech University Visiting Professor of Distributed Computing, University of Derby President, Open Grid Forum ==================================================================== : Alan Sill, Texas Tech University Office: Drane 159, MS 4-1167 : : e-mail: Alan.Sill@ttu.edu<mailto:Alan.Sill@ttu.edu> ph. 806-834-5940 fax 806-834-4358 : ====================================================================