Dear OGF colleagues, We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at OGF 44, coming up May 21-22 at the EGI Conference taking place that entire week (May 18-22) in Lisbon, Portugal. This will be a dynamic, active event engaging with the EGI community and will include a Cloud Plugfest. Looking ahead, there will be opportunities for OGF group to meet at several upcoming events of interest, including XSEDE 2015 July 26-30 in St. Louis (USA) and at other locations in the summer/fall/winter 2015 time frame. For example, we had successful Cloud Plugfest and OGF group meetings at the FAS*/CAC conference inLondon in September 2014, which will be held in Boston this year also in September, and have been invited to do similar activities at the UCC 2015 conference in Cyprus in December 2015, and the OGF NSI group is planning to meet with GLIF at their meeting at the end of September 2015 in Prague. As a short-term action item, you please respond either directly to me or to events@ogf.org<mailto:events@ogf.org> if there is interest by your group in meeting at any or all of the events mentioned above? Suggestions or proposals to host a full OGF event beyond OGF 44 would also be appreciated. Please volunteer, or express your interest. Thanks very much, Alan Sill VP of Standards Open Grid Forum Begin forwarded message: [XSede header]<https://www.xsede.org/> XSEDE15: Registration now open!<x-msg://78/xsede.org/xsede15> XSEDE15 Registration OPEN! Registration for the XSEDE15 Conference is now open! To see price points and register, please visit: https://conferences.xsede.org/xsede15/registration. XSEDE15 takes place July 26-30 at the Marriott Renaissance St. Louis Grand Hotel in the heart of downtown St. Louis, home of the Gateway Arch, the Mississippi River, many nationally-recognized Universities and more. XSEDE15, the 4th annual conference, will showcase the discoveries, innovations, challenges and achievements of those who utilize and support XSEDE resources and services, as well as other digital resources and services throughout the world. Late registration pricing will begin at 12:00 a.m. (Eastern) on June 25. XSEDE15 Sponsors If you are interested in sponsoring the conference, the full prospectus, including options and pricing for non-profits, is available on the XSEDE15 website at https://www.xsede.org/web/conference/xsede15/about/sponsors. XSEDE15 is a unique opportunity to promote products and services among decision makers, researchers, developers, leaders, innovators, educators, and students from a diverse array of national and international organizations. Last year’s XSEDE14 conference attracted more than 630 attendees from 45 states and 10 countries. Get updates on XSEDE Sign up to receive Impact by XSEDE—the project's monthly e-newsletter to update subscribers on the activities of XSEDE—by visiting https://illinois.edu/gm/subscribe/22179. Follow XSEDE on social media by liking XSEDE at Facebook.com/XSEDEscience<https://www.facebook.com/XSEDEscience>, and following XSEDE on Twitter<https://twitter.com/XSEDEscience> (@XSEDEscience<https://twitter.com/XSEDEscience>). Also follow the hashtag #XSEDE15 for further updates and interactions on the annual conference. About XSEDE15 XSEDE15 Conference program will offer tutorials, plenary talks, panels and in-depth technical content that will challenge experts in the field while also providing introductions to all aspects—the tools, technologies and methods—of computational science to people new to the use of these resources and services. This event will also provide a forum for discussion of challenges, opportunities, and solutions among HPC Center directors, computational scientists, researchers, engineers, students, educators, XSEDE staff, industry and government agency representatives from across the United States and internationally. About XSEDE The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) is the most advanced, powerful, and robust collection of integrated advanced digital resources and services in the world. It is a single virtual system that scientists can use to interactively share computing resources, data, and expertise. XSEDE accelerates scientific discovery by enhancing the productivity of researchers, engineers, and scholars by deepening and extending the use of XSEDE’s ecosystem of advanced digital services and by advancing and sustaining the XSEDE advanced digital infrastructure. XSEDE is a five-year, $121-million project and is supported by the National Science Foundation. ### For more information contact: Travis Tate, Media Communications Coordinator, XSEDE, tbtate@illinois.edu<mailto:tbtate@illinois.edu>, 217-377-2205 . [XSede Footer]<https://www.xsede.org/> Unsubscribe<http://illinois.edu/emailer/unsubscribe?authId=25257> [https://illinois.edu/emailer/opened.gif?emailId=72684]