Nominations for Grid Forum Steering Group The Global Grid Forum (GGF) Nominations Committee (NOMCOM) is soliciting nominations for the open positions on the Grid Forum Steering Group (GFSG). You can submit your candidate nominations to nomcom@ggf.org or to any of the NOMCOM members listed below. Self-nominations are accepted. The deadline for nominations is midnight Friday, May 20, 2005 UTC. GGF's mission is to "Lead the pervasive adoption of grid computing for research and industry". The key themes of the GGF mission are to enable "Pervasive Adoption", for both "Research and Industry" through "Standards" development and the continued build-out of our international "Community" supported by effective "Operations". In order to achieve this mission, GGF is being asked to step up to a new level of leadership. A unique opportunity exits now to become part of the new leadership team of GGF during 2005. The following GFSG positions are open: Standards Function: . Vice Chair Standards . Area Director (AD) Infrastructure . AD Compute . AD Applications . AD Standards Liaison Community Function: . Vice chair Communities . AD Research Applications . AD Industrial Applications . AD Grid Operations . AD Technology Innovators . AD Major Grid Projects . AD Community Affairs Operations Function: . AD Marketing . AD Events . AD Finance . AD Sponsorship . AD Information Technology These positions arise from the proposed new GGF management structure. The current draft titled "Global Grid Forum - Changes to GGF Operating Model" can be found on GridForge. The proposed structure and the open positions have to be reviewed by the membership and finally approved by GFSG. Candidates should be flexible to assume different positions in the Steering Group to meet the strategic needs of GGF Terms begin upon the announcement of selections at GGF15 (in the fall) and are usually for three years. So that, in a normal year, 1/3 of the GFSG terms would be expected to expire. However, due to the restructuring there are many more positions open this year. In order to retain the 1/3 expiration ratio some positions filled this year will be open for one or two years only. It is possible that not all of positions will need to be filled, due to the creation or elimination of positions by the GFSG, resignations, transfers, etc. The following members of GFSG have terms that expire this year: Peter Clarke, AD Data Cees DeLaat, AD Peer to Peer Bill Nitzberg, AD Scheduling and Resource Management Ken Klingenstein, AL Dennis Gannon, AL Charlie Catlett, previous Chair To make a nomination, send an email to nomcom@ggf.org or contact anyone of the members of the nominating committee below. We also welcome your views on the effectiveness of a position, including past performance of incumbents. ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED TO NOMCOM WILL BE KEPT IN CONFIDENCE AND WILL BE USED ONLY DURING DELIBERATIONS OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE. Many NOMCOM members will be at GGF13. We welcome your nominations or views at that time. NOMCOM 2005 Committee members are: Jill Arnold <jillar@internet2.edu> Karlo Berket <kberket@lbl.gov> Robert Cowles <rdc@slac.stanford.edu> Dan Gunter <dkgunter@lbl.gov> Tomasz Haupt <haupt@CAVS.MsState.Edu> Darcy Quesnel <darcy.quesnel@canarie.ca> Volker Rohleder <vrohlede@de.ibm.com> Thomas Soddemann <Thomas.Soddemann@rzg.mpg.de> Sven van den Berghe <Sven.vandenBerghe@uk.fujitsu.com> Wolfgang Ziegler Wolfgang.Ziegler@scai.fraunhofer.de NOMCOM 2005 non-voting members Dietmar Erwin <d.erwin@fz-juelich.de> (Chair) Beth Plale <plale@cs.indiana.edu> (previous Chair) David Martin <martinde@us.ibm.com> (GFSG liaison) Dietmar Erwin NOMCOM chair 2005 Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb@ggf.org