GGF eNewsletter 1. Community Program for GridWorld/GGF15 Announced 2. GridWorld/GGF15 Registration Deadline Approaching 3. GridWorld/GGF15 Hotel Details 4. Leadership Award Nominations ----------------------------------------- 1. Community Program Announced Community Program sessions include: *Grid for Managers Tutorial (available at an additional fee) *Technology updates from Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII), Globus, OGSA-DAI, New Technologies for Science Portals *Workshops, invited talks and panels on technologies and applications including: Security and Privacy Needs of Health Grids, Leveraging Site Infrastructure for Multi-Site Grids, Grid Use Cases, Campus Grids, User Management and Access Control within the Grid, Use of Web Services for Network Monitoring Applications, Building Geographical Information System Grids, Provisioning & Managing Switching Infrastructure as a Grid Resource and Web Services Performance Issues & Research Visit http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_schedule_ggf15.htm for a complete listing of Community activities, abstracts and further opportunities for engagement. 2. Registration Deadline Advanced registration for GridWorld/GGF15 (3-6 October, Boston) is closing in just a few days. Take advantage of significant savings by registering during the month of August for this exciting event. Register online at: http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_regstrtn_ggf15.htm 3. GridWorld/GGF15 Hotel Information Be sure to book your hotel room at the conference hotel, The Boston Park Plaza, by calling toll free at (800) 225-2008 in the U.S. and Canada. Outside the U. S. and Canada call (617) 426-2000. Be sure to mention that you are attending GridWorld to receive the $161 per night discounted room rate. Hotel cut-off date is 7 September. 4. Nominations sought for Leadership Award GGF is seeking nominations for future recipients of the GGF Leadership Award. The first Leadership Award was presented to Hiro Kishimoto of Fujitsu at GGF14 in Chicago. For further information, please visit http://www.ggf.org/ggf_rotate_leadership_award.htm. To opt out of receiving future GGF eNewsletters, please contact postmaster@ggf.org. Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb@ggf.org