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Two more weeks of early bird registration for the EGI Technical Forum!

The EGI Technical Forum 2010 will be the first major event within the EGI community and will bring together European distributed computing projects and their collaborators in academia and businesses, from around Europe and around the world.

Announcing the Reasoning Web 2010 Summer School

This meeting will take place in Dresden from the 30th of August to 3rd September 2010.

FOSS projects and the European Research & Development Framework Programme

As part of its research funding activities the European Commission has been funding research into Free, Libre and Open Source software (FOSS) for a number of years.

Announcing the SIENA Initiative

SIENA, the Standards and Interoperability for eInfrastructure Implementation Initiative (2010- 2012), which is currently under negotiation with the European Commission, is working closely with these DCI projects, the European Commission, Standardisation Development Organisations, European Union policy groups and technology innovators from enterprise and research to gain an in-depth understanding of how distributed computing technology is being developed in this context.

Early Bird Registration deadline for the eChallenges Conference 31st July!

The organisers are pleased to announce that the deadline for the Call for Exhibitors is the 28th of August

Open source software battle heats up

Big announcements at the recently concluded Computex 2010 showed that open source software market competition will be tighter: Intel was all-out praises for MeeGo while ARM disclosed tying up with six enterprises to enter Linux-based open source software camp. ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments announced the establishment of Linaro at Computex. This is an organization of chip industry players, aiming mainly to promote the development of Linux-based products, and its first forecasted activity is to launch the first version of software and tools in November 2010.

Announcement - XtreemOS Second Summit 2010

XtreemOS Second Summit 2010 will take place in conjunction with EuroPar 2010 on the 30th of August 2010 in Ischia-Naples, Italy.

Announcement - Project to integrate clouds and grids: Stratuslab

Researchers from a collaboration of six European organizations attracted 2.3 million euros to develop a new internet-based software project called StratusLab.

Announcing the 3rd EU-Japan Symposium on Future Internet and New Generation Networks

In follow-up to the last EU-Japan conferences in the field of "Future Internet" technologies and systems held in Tokyo last October,

Announcement - NSF announces Smart Health and Wellbeing program

The National Science Foundation announced on 11 June 2010 a new cross-cutting program called “Smart Health and Wellbeing,” for which they are accepting proposals.

Eclipse project releases major update of open source IDE

The Eclipse project has announced the Helios release train, a major update of the open source Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) and many of its key components.

Announcement - Abstracts now being accepted, 5 Sept deadline, CGW10, Krakow, Poland

Abstracts are now being accepted for the Krakow Grid Workshop (CGW10), to be held in Krakow, Poland, 11-13 October.

CALL FOR PAPERS Future Internet Symposium 2010: Towards a Converged, Consolidated and Sustainable Future Internet

The current Internet has undergone an essential transformation: it changed from a network of networks that enables access to remote machines by a consistent protocol suite (TCP/IP), to a network of content, applications, and services.

S-Cube - Third call for associate members

S-Cube , the European Network of Excellence on Software Services and Systems, is launching its third call for Associate Members. In this call, S-Cube is especially interested in industrial members with the aim of exchanging experience, expectations, and potential solutions and information regarding the real-life application of Software and Service technologies and methods.

NEXOF Roadmap consultation in investiagation teams

The NEXOF-RA project has just launched an Open Consultation process for the NEXOF Roadmap.

Third issue of the IRMOS newsletter

IRMOS has just finished its second year and has produced some significant results which are providing the basis of the first IRMOS integrated prototype, which will be ready soon.

Announcing S-Cube new member process

S-Cube (http://www.s-cube-network.eu/), the European Network of Excellence on Software Services and Systems, has launched its second call for Associate Members.

Call for Papers PESOS 2010 (2nd International Workshop on Principles of Engineering Service-Oriented Systems, collocated with ICSE 2010)

Deadline for paper submissions is January 11, 2010

Making Grid Computing Easier

The XtreemOS project second public release of Linux-based Grid operating system

Grids, Clouds & Service Infrastructures Workshop

30 November - 3 December 2009; Sophia Antipolis, France