Dear colleagues, The AuthZ Interop document concludes its public comment period at the end of this week, and has received only couple of comments so far: http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/comment.php?id=389 Please read this and consider any comments you might wish to provide by the end of the public comment period, Sept. 28. Beyond this, we look forward to seeing many of you out at the OGF 36 / IEEE e-Science / Microsoft e-Science / GLIF meetings coming up only two weeks from now in Chicago. The schedule is online at the following link: http://ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/index.php?event_id=25 We do have one or two other sessions that are being considered for addition to the Monday afternoon portion of the schedule, so please do check this page when you arrive to find out the latest updates. The sessions being considered include an introduction to the new OGF Redmine tools and options for improving and streamlining the OGF document production and review processes. (A tutorial about these procedures, which replaces the "OGF 101" usual introductory talk, is already scheduled right after the opening session as an aid for newcomers. These other sessions would augment this discussion to be designed for input and feedback, feature requests, community suggestions, etc., as well as exploration of the tools in more detail.) Other OGF News: Other OGF-related events are coming up, about which we will be sending you details shortly. We depend on energy and input from all of OGF to produce the best possible value and output for our community. We always get great feedback from others outside of OGF when they see the high quality of work that is produced by OGF, and are always looking for ways to improve our methods of communication and our output. If you don't have an OGF Redmine account yet, this system will be used to replace our SourceForge-based GridForge shortly, so please do sign up for an account on the new system at: http://redmine.ogf.org In addition to allowing us to leave large numbers of non-users of OGF who had accounts on the old system behind, the new system has many modern features to provide more or less the same functionality that we had in the old system with new tools, such as git repositories, an easier-to-use issue tracker, better integration with mailing lists, etc. We are also getting (great!) support for this for new groups and for old groups to transition to the new system from Andre Merzky in our OGF Operations team - so there is really no reason to delay if you have not already moved to the new OGF Redmine. We look forward to seeing everyone at OGF 36 in Chicago, and/or at future events, on the new tools and on the OGF working group lists! Yours sincerely, Alan Alan Sill, Ph.D Vice President of Standards, Open Grid Forum Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Adjunct Professor of Physics, TTU ==================================================================== : Alan Sill, Texas Tech University Office: Drane 162, MS 4-1167 : : e-mail: Alan.Sill@ttu.edu ph. 806-834-5940 fax 806-834-4358 : ====================================================================