[grid-announce] GGF eNews

[Steve Crumb]

GGF eNewsletter

1. Community Program for GridWorld/GGF15 Announced
2. GridWorld/GGF15 Registration Deadline Approaching
3. GridWorld/GGF15 Hotel Details
4. Leadership Award Nominations

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1. Community Program Announced

Community Program sessions include:
*Grid for Managers Tutorial (available at an additional fee)
*Technology updates from Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII), 
Globus, OGSA-DAI, New Technologies for Science Portals
*Workshops, invited talks and panels on technologies and applications 
including: Security and Privacy Needs of Health Grids, Leveraging Site 
Infrastructure for Multi-Site Grids, Grid Use Cases, Campus Grids, User 
Management and Access Control within the Grid, Use of Web Services for 
Network Monitoring Applications, Building Geographical Information System 
Grids, Provisioning & Managing Switching Infrastructure as a Grid Resource 
and Web Services Performance Issues & Research

Visit http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_schedule_ggf15.htm for a complete 
listing of Community activities, abstracts and further opportunities for 
engagement.


2. Registration Deadline

Advanced registration for GridWorld/GGF15 (3-6 October, Boston) is closing 
in just a few days.  Take advantage of significant savings by registering 
during the month of August for this exciting event. Register online at:
http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_regstrtn_ggf15.htm


3. GridWorld/GGF15 Hotel Information

Be sure to book your hotel room at the conference hotel, The Boston Park 
Plaza, by calling toll free at (800) 225-2008 in the U.S. and 
Canada.  Outside the U. S. and Canada call (617) 426-2000. Be sure to 
mention that you are attending GridWorld to receive the $161 per night 
discounted room rate. Hotel cut-off date is 7 September.


4. Nominations sought for Leadership Award

GGF is seeking nominations for future recipients of the GGF Leadership 
Award.  The first Leadership Award was presented to Hiro Kishimoto of 
Fujitsu at GGF14 in Chicago.  For further information, please visit 
http://www.ggf.org/ggf_rotate_leadership_award.htm.


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Steve Crumb
Executive Director, Global Grid Forum
+1 630-252-8610 (Office)
+1 630-915-3324 (Cell)
scrumb at ggf.org