[pgm-rg] Merged Group Name?

[Bruce Barkstrom]

Of the three suggestions in the body, the one that strikes me as
most appropriate is Grid Operations Management - although
putting "Operations" and "Management" in the name of a group
is likely to be a killer in terms of attracting people.

Bruce Barkstrom
Head, Atmospheric Sciences Data Center
NASA Langley Research Center
ph: (757) 864-5676

Laura McGinnis wrote:

> We have most of the material ready to send to the GGF Steering Group 
> to request the merger of the Production Grid Management and Grid User 
> Services Research Groups.  The last this we need is a really good 
> group name.
>
> At GGF13, we referred to the merged group as "Production Grid 
> Services", which was an easy combination of the two original group 
> names. On reflection, though, I'm concerned that this might imply some 
> sort of grid or web services code base, which is exactly NOT what this 
> group is about.
>
> So here are a few other ideas I wanted to bounce around:
>
> Grid Operations Management (GOM-RG)
> Grid Management Forum (GMF-RG)
> Grid Management and User Issues (GMAUI-RG)
>
> Are any of these obvious winners? Or does anyone have any other ideas?
>
> Prompt response to this would be appreciated,  so we can get the 
> rechartering request into the Steering Group quickly. It would be nice 
> to have the merger completed before GGF14.
>
> thx
> LM
>
>
> Laura F. McGinnis
> Project Coordinator: Data & Information Resource Services
> Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center        4400 Fifth Avenue, # 
> 409D       Pittsburgh, PA 15213
> email: lfm at psc.edu                      voice: 
> 412-268-5642             fax: 412-268-5832
>
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