GGF BEGINS SEARCH FOR NEW CHAIR AS SUCCESSOR TO CATLETT               03.15.04
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The Global Grid Forum Steering Group announced that it is initiating a search
for a new GGF chair as a successor to Charlie Catlett, who will complete a
five-year term as founding chair of GGF in October of this year. Catlett will
continue his role as a member of the GGF Steering Group and GGF editor of Grid
standards.

"As founding chair, Charlie has made a significant contribution to the Grid
community and to standards development over the past five years, including
establishing the GGF's standards process, governance structures, and the
Secretariat," said Paul Messina, chair of the GGF Advisory Committee. "Under
Charlie's leadership, the GGF has expanded from a primarily U.S.-focused
effort to a global community with thousands of participants from over 400
organizations in 50 countries around the world."

"This is an exciting time for the GGF, as Grid computing evolves from the
scientific to the commercial sphere and with continued growth in participation
and impact of GGF's activities. We have a solid steering group comprised of
leaders from seven companies and eleven universities and laboratories as well
as a strong support team led by Steve Crumb, GGF's executive director," said
Catlett, a senior fellow at the University of Chicago and Argonne National
Laboratory. "At the same time, with the tremendous growth of GGF, we must
expand and strengthen our leadership team. I look forward to working with the
new GGF Chair while focusing on my role as GGF editor, ensuring that the work
of the community produces a high quality series of specifications and other
documents."

GGF, the home of the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA), is a
community-initiated forum that promotes and supports the development,
deployment and implementation of Grid technologies to support enterprise or
"utility" computing requirements. Visit http://www.ggf.org for more
information.




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