[occi-wg] Fwd: Cloud Plugfest Announcement - February 28 - March 01, 2012, Düsseldorf, DE

[Alan Sill]

Here is a proposed announcement sent by Tom Mancuso of SNIA.

Are there any suggestions to make this announcement wording for better from an OGF OCCI point of view?

In particular, we are planning to add text that refers to the OGF workshop events at the ISGC meeting in Taiwan, and plan to arrange for cloud interoperability and federated security workshop attendees there to be able to participate.  As it turns out, the dates of this event overlap exactly with the ISGC itself, and daytime in Germany corresponds roughly to evenings in Taiwan and that region.  With this in mind we would like to arrange a remote location in Taiwan and may recruit others in that time zone to meet in the evenings with remote connectivity to the location in Dusseldorf.

Any thoughts from the OCCI-WG would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Alan

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Mancuso, Tom" <tom.mancuso at snia.org>
> Subject: Cloud Plugfest Announcement - February 28 - March 01, 2012, Düsseldorf, DE
> Date: December 19, 2011 10:43:39 PM CST
> To: "cloudtwg at snia.org" <cloudtwg at snia.org>, "csi at snia.org" <csi at snia.org>, "cloud-demo at googlegroups.com" <cloud-demo at googlegroups.com>
> Cc: Denise Ridolfo <ridolfo at netapp.com>, Gilles Chekroun <gchekrou at cisco.com>, Daniel Sazbon <SAZBOND at fr.ibm.com>, Chris Sopp <chris.sopp at hp.com>, Mary McCue <mccue at snia-europe.org>, "staff at snia.org" <staff at snia.org>, "Sill, Alan" <alan.sill at ttu.edu>
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> (Please forward this message to friends and colleagues who may be interested)
> 
> MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR CLOUD PLUGFEST 2012 - Registration is now open!
> 
> The Storage Networking Industry Association's Cloud Storage Initiative (SNIA CSI) and the Open Grid Forum (OGF) are conducting the first in a series of international cloud plugfests slated for 2012.
> 
> What: Cloud Plugfest sponsored by SNIA CSI/OGF
> When: February 28 through March 01, 2012
> Where: Dusseldorf, DE (Primary Location)
> 
> Who's invited? 
> All cloud implementers are invited to participate either in person or remotely. Participants need not be members of the SNIA, CSI or OGF and the cost to attend is FREE!*
> 
> Why attend? 
> The cloud plugfest will offer a highly collaborative, vendor-neutral, environment for developers and vendors to perform interoperability testing of CDMI and OCCI implementations. The previous Cloud Plugfest, held in September 2011 in Santa Clara, California and remotely in Dusseldorf, Germany, attracted over 20 developers from nine companies.
> 
> By attending the cloud plugfest participants will:
> .	Gain a greater understanding of what the needs are for establishing better interoperability with Cloud Computing and Cloud Storage standards, and the opportunity to refine those standards.
> .	Gain a better understanding of the requirements for interoperability integration between Cloud Storage (CDMI) and Cloud Computing  (OCCI)
> .	Interact directly with cloud implementers and early adopters of CDMI and OCCI
> 
> How to register?
> The cost to register is free. Visit the cloud plugfest page at http://www.snia.org/cloud/cloudplugfest for additional details or go directly to the registration page http://snia.org/cloud/cloudplugfest/agreement. E-mail updates will be sent to registered participants as the plugfest nears.
> 
> Those interested in volunteering to help plan cloud plugfests or becoming a member of the SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative (http://www.snia.org/forums/csi) should contact Tom Mancuso, csimanager at snia.org. 
> 
> 
> * Plugfest registration is free. Attendees are responsible for all other costs (travel, meals, etc.) associated with participating in this event including any participation fees imposed by co-located venues or event sponsors.
> 
> 
> Tom Mancuso
> Senior Program Manager, SMI
> Storage Networking Industry Association 
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