Dear OGF Community - OGF is pleased to announce that the Call for Session Proposals and Registration are now open for OGF26. The Open Grid Forum is returning to the Friday Center in Chapel Hill, NC USA for the 26th Open Grid Forum event. The Friday Center was the site of the successful OGF19, and we are eager to return for another productive meeting. Please note the dates of OGF26 have been adjusted to better facilitate participation of key stake holders from around the World. OGF26 will be held Tuesday May 26 through Friday May 29 2009. The OGF26 Program Committee has issued the Call For Session Proposals, and is encouraging contributors to propose sessions and workshops around the following topics: * Green technologies and practices * Cloud computing and other emerging or disruptive technologies * Case studies of applications on distributed computing environments * Data management in distributed environments * OGF Specification Adoption demonstrating the impact of OGF’s specifications and best practices on science and industry * Production Grid Infrastructure user experiences Links to the pertinent web pages: http://www.ogf.org/OGF26 -- OGF26 home page http://www.ogf.org/OGF26/cfp.php -- OGF26 Call for Session Proposals http://www.ogf.org/OGF26/registration.php -- OGF26 Registration See you in Chapel Hill! Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Director, Open Grid Forum replogle@ogf.org http://www.ogf.org