[gin] GIN additional co-chair election process

[Morris Riedel]

Dear GIN members,


  I really much appreciate that we experience more and more activities within the interoperability realm in the last year and that
some of you already discussed with me SC2010 plans. Therefore, I believe it makes sense to fill the additional co-chair positions
currently available in GIN to further push our interoperability efforts as well.

The election of the new co-chairs is an open process and the group decides. But please keep in mind that these positions should be
filled as soon as possible and that these individuals should really invest time in the activity.

Hence, to support a faster election process, I already discussed with members of OGF and GIN folks possible candidates in the last
months.


I would therefore like to take the opportunity to recommend the group setup (in addition to my role) as follows:



(1)
I recommend that Steve Crouch (U o Southampton, UK) would be one of the additional co-chairs.

Steve is active in GIN since a long time mainly though his major involvement in the continuation of the HPC-Basic Profile interop*
demos under the GIN umbrella. 

His major work would be to further push these HPC-Basic Profile interop* activities and further extend them as best as possible. One
example might be the integration of other specifications like the file staging profile over time; another example how we can augment
this demo with a complementary compliance check.

I already discussed this with Steve and he is willing to take this role once selected by the group.



(2)
In addition to Steve and myself, I recommend that Kazushige Saga (NII, Japan) would be one of the additional co-chairs.

Kazu is actively working with us in GIN and its spin-off PGI with much enthusiasm. His participation, in OGF in general and in the
context of GIN/PGI/HPC-BP demos in particular, is well known by colleagues in the interop* community and beyond.

Furthermore, with having already two European co-chairs with Steve and me, Kazu would be a suitable candidate in order to
demonstrate that GIN is actively steered from members beyond Europe as well.

I already discussed this with Kazu and he is willing to take this role once selected by the group.






Finally, please send me any serious objections (privately) to the proposed setup.

If I do not receive significant objections until the end of this week (2010-08-06), I see this setup as being agreed by the group.

Afterwards, I will be once again in contact with our 'OGF e-Research Function' vice president David Wallom (cc) to officially
confirm the above recommended setup.


Your co-chair,
Morris
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Morris Riedel
Deputy Division Leader
Distributed Systems and Grid Computing Division

Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
Info: http://www.fz-juelich.de/jsc/JSCPeople/riedel



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