[wg-all] OGF opportunities to meet at NSI meeting at GLIF 2015 28-30 Sep. in Prague and EGI Community Forum 10-13 Nov 2015 in Bari

[Sill, Alan]

Dear OGF community and working groups,

Please take note that the 15th Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop will be held on 28-30 September 2015, Prague.  The NSI working group will meet on Monday 28th Sept and Thursday 1st Oct. and you need to register for GLIF if you are planning to attend the co-located NSI meetings. Please register for the GLIF event here:  http://glif2015.cesnet.cz/ and also indicate your interest to your group leaders for a similar meeting at the GLIF Techs meeting to take place in early 2016.

The opportunity for OGF groups to meet in a time slot Tuesday 10 Nov. 2015 has been offered by the European Grid Initiative at the EGI Community Forum 2015, which will will take place in Bari, Italy 10-13 November. The registration form is online and early bird registration rates are available until 11 October. 

The EGI Community Forum will be organised by EGI.eu in collaboration with the partners of the Italian National Grid Initiative (INFN, INAF and INGV) and hosted by INFN-Bari. The programme also includes a full track of training events on EGI technologies and topics. Registration is available at this link: http://go.egi.eu/cf15-reg

The event's timetable is already online at http://go.egi.eu/CF2015 and includes sessions and workshops (beyond the above time slot) on several topics of interest that overlap with activities of OGF work groups and community groups, including Open Data, the Federated Cloud, Authentication and Authorisation and services for Research Infrastructures and Competence Centres. 

The EGI Community Forum 2015 will also host three co-located events on Friday 13 November:

	• INDIGO DataCloud project meeting (closed meeting),
	• EDISON project: Expert Liaison Group meetings (closed meeting), and
	• Open Science Cloud workshop, where participation is open and welcome, but number of seats is restricted and registration is required.

If you would like to meet for purposes of facilitating interactions with any of the many EGI projects at the Community Forum 2015, please contact us immediately so that we can help to arrange joint opportunities as appropriate. To respond, please contact Wolfgang Ziegler, VP of Community for OGF at (Wolfgang [dot] Ziegler [at] scai [dot] fraunhofer [dot] de), Jens Jensen, VP of Standards at (Jens [dot] Jensen [at] stfc [dot] ac [dot] uk, or send us an inquiry at (events [at] ogf.org]

The exhibition floor at EGI CF2015 will feature a number of exhibition stands and demo booths. Booking of exhibiton boothscan be made until 2 October 2015. For any technical enquiry and/or further information, please send an email Giuseppina Salente at (salente [at] pd [dot] infn [dpt] it). More information about the exhibition booths is available at this link: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/internalPage.py?pageId=4&confId=2544

Additional information:

	• CF2015 Indico pages: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=2544
	• Registration page (early bird fees are available until 11 October): https://indico.egi.eu/indico/internalPage.py?pageId=6&confId=2544
	• Poster and demo submission is open until 30 September. For information, contact (events [at] egi.eu)

We encourage strong participation by the OGF community in these events. 

Additionally, please be sure to keep track of the steady progress being made by a remarkable number of OGF working groups and community groups as summarized on the OGF Editor issue tracker at https://redmine.ogf.org/projects/editor/issues and the public comment boards at https://redmine.ogf.org/projects/editor-pubcom/boards (some of which have already been returned to their respective groups for further work and processing).

The community is what you make it, and make of it, so I hope you will take advantage of these opportunities to participate. 

Alan Sill
President, Open Grid Forum