Fwd: Proposal for an AG technical retreat..

[Steven I. Gordon]

I think this is a great idea.  I would like for us to have a half-day to 
actually discuss deployment issues like governance, the production of 
documentation, and other aspects of our deployment planning.


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>From: Rick Stevens <stevens at mcs.anl.gov>
>Subject: Proposal for an AG technical retreat..
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>Hi,
>
>I'm thinking that it might be a good idea to put together an Access Grid 
>retreat
>for sometime early next year. The purpose of the retreat would be to 
>gather people
>together to discuss where we are with the Access Grid Project, present 
>some technical
>proposals to the AG technical community for where we might want to go in 
>the next year with
>new capabilities, to plan some stretch events that will help refine and 
>improve
>the AG concept, and to provide an open forum for discussing new and 
>interesting
>things we can do with the AG in the future.  I propose a 2-3 day format, 
>with a few
>invited talks, contributed presentations from various groups on future 
>directions,
>some breakout sessions to discuss specific applications of AG (Medical, 
>etc.) and
>the publication in an informal proceedings the lecture notes and 
>discussion papers which
>would cover new AG related technologies and projects.
>
>Thoughts ?
>
>---Rick