[gin-auth] Future of GIN

[David Bannon]

Erwin, its great news that GIN will continue. But would you mind if I
questioned the wisdom of having f2f meetings out of the OFG timetable ?

Its hard enough to make it to OGF (or get one of my team there) but I
have no hope of getting to CERN 'just' for GIN. Sad but true.

Anyway, I can take hart that GIN lives. And I really do think GIN has a
valuable contribution to make!

David


On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 11:32 +0100, 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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