[gce-rg] GGF GCE-RG Reactivating

[Roberto Barbera]

Hi Mary,

indeed, very much has been done inside the EGEE project concerning grid 
portals. I will be happy to "re-activate" my participation to the 
GCE-RG. I'm making plans to participate to GGF 14 so, please, keep me in 
the loop.

ciao

Roberto

Mary Thomas wrote:

> <<<<<<<<<<<  Global Grid Forum Grid Computing Environments Research 
> Group >>>>>>>>
>       (Please forward this on to anyone whom you think will be 
> interested in our activities)
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> 
> Dear Portal Community, GCE-RG Members,  future members:
> 
> The GCE-RG is waking up from a long and comfortable snooze. Recall that 
> when last we met, we had a workshop in Japan, where we determined that 
> Web Services and Portals bases on Portlet technologies were very 
> exciting directions to investigate. Since then, the GCE-RG has taken a 
> hiatus and many of you have been off doing some very interesting and 
> productive work.
> 
> As a result, we think that there are several very good reasons for the 
> GCE-RG to become active again:  there have been  many advances in grid 
> and web services; shell and portal technologies and supporting 
> frameworks have new standards; and a growing number of user communities 
> are now hosting GCE's. Clearly, now is  a very good time to bring our 
> developer and user communitites together, exchange ideas, and 
> investigate new directions.
> 
> Our esteemed GGF Area Directors (Craig Lee and Satoshi Matsuoka) have 
> obtained official approval from the GGF for the GCE-RG to become 
> reactivated. We will begin by reviewing and renewing our charter. We 
> will meet at the next GGF meeting (Summer, Chicago).
> 
> We would like to propose the following activities at the next GGF (this 
> Summer). Note, this is only a preliminary agenda and we would like to 
> hear about other ideas and activities you would like to see happen 
> within the GCE-RG. We are especially interested in activities that will 
> lead to spin-off Working Groups so that we can better support the 
> mission of the GGF in setting standards.
> 
> Proposed Agenda:
>   - solicit input/interest from attendees, and emails beforehand if 
> possible
>   - discuss new directions for GGF (portal frameworks, shells, other)
>   - if there is community consensus, begin update of charter and web site
>        -- seeking volunteers to spearhead this effort
>   - new activities:
>       - Portlets WG BOF (M. Pierce, others TBD)
>       - upate/revisit GCE draft doc on portal architectures (begun at 
> GGF in Japan, 2002).
>       - promote new community portal sharing wiki (opengridportals.org)
>        - Gather input/volunteers/make plans for an SC05 GCE-Portals 
> workshop (not a GGF event though).              -- This activity is 
> based on input from attendees at the SC04 Portals BOF
>              -- Papers will be published in C&C:P&E publication with 
> overview article to contribute to GGF.
>              -- will be posting email soon seeking voluteers to server 
> on program committiees/etc.
> 
> Please let us know your thoughts on what you would like to see emerge 
> from new GCE-RG activites.
> 
> Thanks and we look forward to hearing from you -
> Mary, Dennis and Geoffrey
> 
> ===============================================================
> Mary Thomas              Department of Computer Science
> mthomas at rohan.sdsu.edu   San Diego State University
> (619) 594-1694 (office)  San Diego, CA 92182-7720
> (619) 594-6746 (fax)     http://rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/mthomas
> Adv. Comp. Env. Lab      http://acel.sdsu.edu
> 

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