[EGR-RG] NESSI-Grid: Invitation to contribute in the development of the secondversion of the Strategic Research Agenda on Business Grids

[Ignacio Martin Llorente]

Dear friends,

The Service Oriented Infrastructure NESSI Working Group (SOI-NWG) is defining the NESSI Strategic Research Agenda on new generation
of ICT infrastructures (http://www.soi-nwg.org/doku.php?id=sra:description). In this context, Business Grids are envisioned as the
adaptive service-oriented utility infrastructure for business applications, which will become the general ICT backbone in future
service oriented economies. 

SOI-NWG has defined an open process to extend participation in the development of the second version of the NESSI-Grid SRA
(http://www.soi-nwg.org/doku.php?id=sra:description) to external members of the consortium, mainly focusing on the relevant players
and experts within the Grid Community (http://www.soi-nwg.org/doku.php?id=sra:process). Models of contribution include:

- Individual Contributions: Experts from Industry, Research and Academia can contribute by submitting comments and/or change
proposals completing the Contribution Form for Individual Contributors. 
- Group of Interest Contributions: Representatives of the main groups of interest (research projects, infrastructures and middleware
solutions) can contribute by submitting one of the available surveys, which have been designed to extract relevant information
according to the type of group
- Related Analysis: Projects and working groups can also contribute by submitting related analysis, surveys and interviews. 

You can find more details on the process and download the models and surveys at http://www.soi-nwg.org/doku.php?id=sra:call. The
call will be open until September 30, 2007.

You are invited to contribute using any of those models. We would like the second version of the SRA to include your valuable
feedback. 

You are also invited to participate in the rest of the collaborative activities under development by SOI-NWG
(http://www.soi-nwg.org) by subscribing to the SOI-NWG mailing list and registering to the SOI-NWG WIKI.

Contribution to the SRA is open to any relevant player and expert in the community, please feel free to extend this invitation to
anyone you think could be interested.
 
The results of this call for contribution will be published in the SOI-NWG WIKI (http://www.soi-nwg.org/doku.php?id=sra:results) on
October 7, 2007. Contributors will be cited in an acknowledge section.

We are looking forward to your contribution!
 
Regards,

Ignacio M. Llorente
Grid Community Liaison Coordinator for SOI-NWG

Wolfgang Theilmann
Main Contact for SRA

Ricardo Jiménez Peris
Chief Editor

Juan Hierro
NESSI-Grid Coordinator and SOI-NWG Chair