[gin-data] Reminder: Future of GIN

[Erwin Laure]

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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