[SEM-GRD] OGF19 Web 2.0 and Grids workshop 29 Jan North Carolina

[David De Roure]

Hello

At OGF19 (yes, GGF is now OGF...) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina at the
end of January we are running a workshop looking at the future of the
Web and the Grid - yes, it's not just semantic web and the Grid but Web
2.0 and the Grid!  It's on January 29, the first day of the event.

Our keynote speaker is Carole Goble on myExperiment, a personalised
environment which enables scientists to share, re-use and repurpose
experiments. myExperiment is a very exciting initiative which owes far
more to social networking websites such as MySpace and YouTube than to
the traditional portals of Grid computing. See the New Scientist piece
"MySpace for the dudes in lab coats"

	http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg19225745.500

and Grid Today "'Me-Science' the New e-Science" 

	http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/963514.html

There will be invited talks starting with Web 2.0 101 (!) which includes
both the philosophy and the technologies of Web 2.0, and (of course...)
a Semantic Grid update too.

We want the workshop to deliver a report that captures community
practice so that we can have broader impact.  So I am about to send out
a call for position papers under the general theme of Web 2.0, e-Science
and the Grid.  These are short papers and one of the reasons for doing
this is because I know some of you find it easier to get travel funds if
you are presenting.

BTW The discounted registration deadline for OGF19 is currently showing
as December 8 on the OGF web site, but I have it on the best authority
that this is being extended to December 15.

Thanks and look forward to seeing you - watch this space and the web
site for further info, and please circulate this message and the call to
interested colleagues.

-- Dave