[gin] Reminder: Future of GIN
Erwin Laure
Erwin.Laure at cern.ch
Mon Feb 19 04:03:26 CST 2007
Tomorrow is the last day for group co-chair nominations!
Best regards,
-- Erwin
Erwin Laure wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a reminder for two important activities for the future of GIN:
>
> * Please come forward with nominations for the group co-chair by Feb. 20.
>
> * We'll have our f2f meeting for revising the charter and planning the
> future on March 14. We try to have a video link available as well.
>
> **Please register for the event at
> http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=12489 **
>
> and indicate whether you will intend to come in person (we need this
> information for the site access cards). I've tentatively blocked 10:00
> to 18:00 but more details on the agenda will follow.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Erwin
>
>
>
> Erwin Laure wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Many thanks to all of you who contributed to GIN over the past year
>> and who were present at the very interesting discussions at OGF19. We
>> had a very good interaction with the HPCP folks which probably could
>> serve as a model for future interactions with standard groups.
>>
>> We also had a BoF-like session to discuss the outcome of the
>> questionnaire and the future of GIN. There was a unanimously consensus
>> that GIN should continue!
>>
>> You can find the slides of both sessions at
>> https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/tracker/do/listArtifacts/projects.gin/tracker.draftplans2007
>>
>>
>> As we decided that GIN should continue we have to do some formal things:
>>
>> ======================================================
>> Confirmation/Election of Group Co-Chairs and Secretary
>> ======================================================
>>
>> As discussed in the OGF19 session, I'm happy to continue my
>> involvement in GIN as co-chair, however, Stu Martin had unfortunately
>> to step down as second co-chair. I'd like to thank Stu for all his
>> efforts in moving GIN ahead and I hope he will be able to follow and
>> support our activities in the future as well.
>>
>> We hence need to elect a new co-chair. Please send nominations to the
>> list by Feb. 20.
>>
>> We also need to confirm the group's secretary. So far this has been
>> Cindy Zheng, who unfortunately couldn't be with us at Chapel Hill. So
>> we need to confirm whether Cindy is still available or other people
>> would like to volunteer. Again, please come forward by Feb. 20.
>>
>> ==============
>> Revise charter
>> ==============
>>
>> The original GIN charter was only valid for the first year. We need to
>> revise it by the next OGF meeting in Manchester. In order to do so,
>> we've decided in Chapel Hill to have a GIN F2F meeting at CERN,
>> Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday, March 14. Details will be sent out
>> in due course but please block this date in your calendar.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> -- Erwin
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>
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