[gin] WG: GIN additional co-chair election process - Third co-chair

[Morris Riedel]

Dear GIN folks,

  with clearance of David Wallom (our area director) and getting no objections from the community I'm glad to announce that
Kazushige Saga (CC) is now the third co-chair of the GIN group.

This really should give the group a big push towards new endeavors in terms of interoperability!

@Joel: Could you please add Kazu to the GIN GridForge page - many thanks!

Take care,
Morris





>-- -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>-- Von: gin-bounces at ogf.org [mailto:gin-bounces at ogf.org] Im Auftrag von Morris Riedel
>-- Gesendet: Montag, 2. August 2010 13:33
>-- An: gin at ogf.org
>-- Betreff: [gin] GIN additional co-chair election process
>-- 
>-- 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
>-- ------------------------------------------------------------
>-- 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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