Re: GCE: Proposed Activities

[Tomasz Haupt <haupt@erc.msstate.edu>]

I already volunteered a white paper on GCE information services
Tomasz

Mary Thomas wrote:

> All -
> 
> The GF Chairs just finished meeting in Berkely to discuss documents
> and other GGF things.  Mary, Dennis and Geoffrey were all at the 
> meeting (the first time that all three co-chairs were together).
> We have come up with some proposed ideas for GCE docs/publications.
> 
> First of all, there is the proposed special edition of Concurrency,
> Practice, and Experience (se website for announcement).  We hope
> that many of you will be working on papers for this issue.
> 
> We are assuming that we will produce 25 CP docs for projects by July.
> We will assume that by then we will have 15 CP&E submissions.
> (due date will be synched with GGF2).
> 
> We propose to take these 15 papers, plus representatives of 
> others, use them to make other docs:
>    1. Draft GF docs: define where we think the next steps are,
>       refine analysis by producing "portal focus summaries"
> 	for GCE-WG.  Identify categories/areas that portals
>  	are using, and identify wg where appropriate:
> 		- events  **workshop**
>     		- Account Management Working Group (Accounts-WG) 
>     		- Advanced Programming Models Working Group (Models-WG)  
>     		- Application and Tools Requirements Working Group (Apps-WG)  
>     		- Grid Information Service Working Group (GIS-WG)  **workshop**
>     		- Grid Performance Working Group (Perf-WG)  
>     		- Remote Data Access Working Group (Data-WG)  
>     		- Scheduling Working Group (Sched-WG) 
>     		- Security Working Group (Security-WG) 
>     		- User Services Working Group (Users-WG) 
> 		- others:
> 			- specifying user interfaces
> 			- portal protocols, portalML  **workshop**
>     2. Summary/overview GF doc version of items in (1)
>     3. Other grid-like projects (p2p, jini, jxta, 
> 		uddi/xml, espeak, .net, and so-on)
>     4. overview/survey doc for CP&E
> 		- a review/summary of items in (1)
> 		- a review/summary of items in (3)
> 
> Please review lists under (1), and (3) to see if we are missing
> anything.  Also, we need to assign people to each topic to help
> get this written.  If you are planning on attending GGF2 in Washington,
> this is a great opportunity to contribute.  Items denoted **workshop**
> are going to be discussed at the GCE Workshop in San Diego this month.
> 
> See you in July at GGF1, or in a couple of weeks at the workshop!
> 
> Mary
> 
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