[nm-wg] urgent - sessions at the next GGF

[R. Hughes-Jones]

Dear ALL

Mark beat me to it!
 
I think it would be most worthwhile to have a face to face at GGF17 and I
would like to encourage folks to attend. As we have made much progress with
the version 2 Schemata I think it is important to maintain progress and keep
the visibility high. It would be very good if GGF17 acted as a focus to
prepare for the release.

My suggestion would be to have a focus meeting (maybe 1/2 to 2/3 of a day)
to go over the schemata and their release in some detail followed by a
standard NM-WG session.

I will contact Mark about restarting our phone calls as preparation.
Look forward to seeing you at GGF17
Regards
Richard Hughes-Jones
 
Tel:  +44 (0) 161 275 4117
Fax: +44 (0) 161 273 0480
Web: www.hep.man.ac.uk/~rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nm-wg at ggf.org [mailto:owner-nm-wg at ggf.org] On Behalf Of Leese,
> MJ (Mark)
> Sent: 14 March 2006 16:38
> To: nmwg (E-mail)
> Subject: [nm-wg] urgent - sessions at the next GGF
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> The next GGF...
> 
>     GGF17: May 10-12th 2006 in Tokyo
> 
> ...is sneaking up on us. So much so that we need to decide by *Friday*
> whether we'd like to hold any NM-WG sessions.
> 
> My personal opinion, and one that I think will be shared by others in the
> group, is that we're not at a stage where we want or need a face-to-face
> meeting. If anything, more phonecalls would be better. However, like last
> year's South Korea GGF, we may want to keep NM-WG visible, and present our
> work in Asia-Pac to encourage participation from that region, especially
> since we've made a lot of progress with the V2 schemas and have some
> software (e.g. perfSONAR) as a demonstrator. If people see value in this,
> then it's likely that I can attend GGF. Alternatively, you may want us to
> wait until things are "bulletproof" and really ready for release. I'm open
> to suggestions!
> 
> The following GGF will be the second "GridWorld" (the result of another
> team-up with IDG World Expo and GlobusWorld) in Washington DC, September
> 11-14th.
> 
> Can you please let me have your thoughts asap (cc'd to the list) so we can
> reach a consensus by Friday, which is also the deadline for requesting
> sessions?
> 
> Hope everyone and everything is good. We'll have a call as soon as I get
> around to arranging one :)
> 
> Mark.
> 
> 
> Mark Leese
> 
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