Newsletter

VE-Forum.org Newsletter March 2007

Overview

Introduction
Free Workspaces for Proposal Preparation
News
Events

1. Introduction

Dear VE-FORUM Member,

We are glad to inform you on the latest news and important developments of our VE-Forum community portal. The portal and community services were seed-funded since October 2003 through a project funded by the European Commission. This project has come to an end in December 2006, but VE-Forum continues strongly. The project leaves behind the established ground of our Community Portal Platform, meaning among others:

about 4700 members from 127 countries,

13 projects hosted and 25 active workgroups,

13 active SIG,

eJOV journal,

and our newsletter,

VE-Forum has seen a smooth transition and since January 2007 is operating in an autonomous and self-sustainable “open science community”.

As community we can report that the Portal Platform has been secured for the future through an agreement with its new commercial provider VEA bv.

VEA is a Dutch registered company, with 8 employees’, focusing its activities in technology developments and service provision. With Ide Beijersbergen-Evren as CEO (see her profile on the VE-Forum homepage), and Juerg Amrein as CTO - he has already been the head behind the technology so far -, VEA brings together competencies and solutions that before were provided by separate entities and now they will act as the full technical support out of one hand. We are especially happy that commercial demand for the technical platform will give stable revenues for its continuous development and operation. VEA is committed to cooperate with VE-Forum and its challenging requirements as input for further technology developments and innovation. All in all this constitutes a major milestone and critical contribution for the sustainable future of our community collaboration platform.

We hope that you will all enjoy these new developments and, for sure, on your daily practice, show your strong interest by using all portal facilities and knowledge, bringing your individual inputs or contributions, promoting our Portal to your colleagues, and, last but not least, choosing our platform for your future project websites and workspaces.

2. Free Workspaces for Proposal Preparation

Many of you are heavily involved in proposal preparations for the first calls of the new Framework Programme - FP7 - of the EU, or for some national programme. Maybe you find it very difficult to coordinate all your proposal activities just through Email, instead of a common place for document storage and version management, discussions, or task management.

As an "open science community", VE-Forum has the goal to support new initiatives in the wider domain of virtual organisations, networks and collaboration. We therefore offer free workspaces for proposal preparation, of course these are completely private and only accessible to your proposal team.

The idea is like a generation contract: Successful proposals continue to use VE-Forum for public dissemination and engagement with the community, and/or for project-internal collaboration and coordination - and contribute a small amount from the project budget towards the further upkeep of the platform. Some 10 projects from small roadmap proposal to large Integrated Project already used this service.

If you are interested, please contact Olivier Rérolle at (info@ve-forum.org) for more information or to be up and running in very short time.

3. News


Call for Papers: SPAC 2007 07/03/2007 The paper submission deadline for the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Software Patterns: Addressing Challenges has been extended to March 18, 2007 The First IEEE International Workshop on Software Patterns: Addressing ChallengesBeijing, China, July 24-27, 2007 (in conjunction with COMPSAC 2007)http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2007/.. more..
20th Open Grid Forum - Early Registration ends 15 March 06/03/2007 The 20th Open Grid Forum will be held in Manchester (UK), on May 7-11 2007. Early Bird Registration ends 15 March - Register NOW athttp://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php The main areas of interest will cover key topics in Grid technology such as:OGF 20 programme 7-9 May featuring:- Keynote and Plenary presentations by leading.. more..
ManuBuild Newsletter - Issue 5 01/03/2007 The latest issue of ManuBuild's newsletter is now available. Click on "ManuBuild Newsletters in blue menu bar at top of screen to access.
AMI@Work Communities Newsletter - Double Issue No 5 and 6 21/02/2007 Coordinator’s Message COMIST wishes to contribute to a prosperous 2007 for all AMIs (means friends in French). We are proud of COMIST contribution to the launching of the European Network of Living Labs. As you know the official launch has taken place under the auspices of the Finnish presidency of the European Union on 20 Nov 2006, just before.. more..
International Entrepreneurship 11/02/2007 GRENOBLE - 8 february - Students from all over the world participated in the XLX Entrepreneur Game to develop their ideas into business ventures in only one day. The XLX simulation was organized on the last day of the Business Plan Challenge Week. This week was jointly organised by the Grenoble School of Management and University Inholland. From.. more..
IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing 09/02/2007 IFAC-CEA'07 - October 2-5, 2007 - Monterrey, NL, Mexico Paper Submition is open!! Abstracts submission: March 5, 2007 Full paper submission: March 12, 2007 - Acceptance notice: May 15, 2007 - Poster submissions: May 7, 2007 - Workshop proposal: Feb 28, 2007 - Final Paper submission: May 28, 2007

4. Events

ITAIDE Paper LL on tour 08/03/2007 All European capital cities ITAIDE, the electronic customs initiative within the EU 6th Framework IST Programme, goes on Tour. We are offering you in your capital city a seminar on facilitating global trade and how to apply electronic customs procedures. The ITAIDE team will present you the latest information and share ideas, concepts and solutions for eCustoms. Please.. more..
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 11/03/2007 Seoul, Korea The 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2007) will be held in Seoul (Korea) on March 11-15, 2007. SAC 2007 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP). The following technical tracks will be held at SAC 2007 1. A.I., Computational Logic, Image Analysis (AI) 2... more..
Beyond e-Government: time for delivery 14/03/2007 Barcelona, Spain The Eurocities Forum on Knowledge Society, formerly known as Telecities, promotes every year 4 events consisting of a conference and thematic workshops (e-Care, eGovernment, Broadband, eCitizenship). These events provide a platform for its member cities and business partners to share knowledge and ideas, exchange experiences and analyse common.. more..
ISO TC184/SC4 meetings 26/03/2007 Portugal ISO TC184/SC4 is meeting next time in Madeira Island (Portugal), 26-30 March 2007 (http://gris-public.uninova.pt/sc4-portugal2007), together with the 3rd I-ESA2007 International Conference on Interoperability of Enterprise, Systems and Applications (www.i-esa.org). The mission of ISO TC184/SC4 is to develop and promulgate standards for.. more..
ITAIDE project members to participate in the UN/CEFACT Forum 26/03/2007 Dublin, Ireland The 10th UN/ CEFACT Forum will be held in Dublin, Ireland for the first time over March 26 -30 2007. This represents a singular opportunity for professionals in specific industry sectors and ICT generally to take part in and contribute to a significant and inclusive international standards development community. UN/ CEFACT is in the unique.. more..
3rd International Conference Interoperability for Enterprise Software and Applications (I-ESA 2007) 28/03/2007 Funchal (Madeira Island), Portugal Initiated in 2005 by two major European research projects of the 6th Framework R&D Programme of the European Commission, the ATHENA IP (Advanced Technologies for Interoperability of Heterogeneous Enterprise Networks and their Applications, Integrated Project) and the INTEROP NoE, (Interoperability Research for Networked Enterprise Applications.. more..
ARES 2007 10/04/2007 Vienna, Austria The Second International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES 2007 – The International Dependability Conference”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES 2007 will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability,.. more..
Open Building Manufacturing Systems Conference - The Transformation of the Industry 25/04/2007 Netherlands ManuBuild are pleased to announce the forthcoming Open Building Manufacturing Systems Conference. Reserve 25-26th April 2007 in your diary. See conference flyer for details. A detailed announcement will be released shortly.
BIS 2007 25/04/2007 Poznan, Poland The Business Information Systems (BIS 2007) conference is by now a well-respected event joining international researchers to discuss the wide range of the development, implementation, application and improvement of business applications and systems. It is addressed to the scientific community, people involved in the development of business.. more..
OFG20/EGEE 2nd User Forum 07/05/2007 Manchester, UK The 20th Open Grid Forum will be held in Manchester (UK), on May 7-11 2007. The main areas of interest will cover key topics in Grid technology such as:OGF 20 programme 7-9 May featuring:- Keynote and Plenary presentations by leading Grid luminaries - Chartered Group Sessions including Standards Working Group Sessions and BoFs- Enterprise Track.. more..
EGEE User Forum 09/05/2007 Manchester, UK The EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE) project provides the world’s largest production grid infrastructure for applications. The EGEE infrastructure is the home for an increasing number of diverse user communities for whom it provides both infrastructure services and a range of user support services. EGEE considers the User Forum one of the.. more..
International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-07) 21/05/2007 Niagara Falls, Canada The International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-07) will be held in Niagara Falls, Canada, May 21-23, 2007.The conference covers theory, design and application of computer networks and distributed computing systems. Aside from the regular presentations, the conference will include keynote addresses with.. more..
eLearning Africa 28/05/2007 Nairobi, Kenya This event focuses on ICT for development, education and training in Africa. It will establish a network of decision makers from governments and administrations with universities, schools, governmental and private training providers, industry, and important partners in development cooperation. This year's edition focuses on "Building.. more..
ICE 2007 04/06/2007 Sophia-Antipolis, France 13th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising Concurrent Innovation: an emerging paradigm for Collaboration & Competitiveness in the extended enterprise The ICE conference is a premier forum to enable practitioners, researchers as well as tool vendors to present, demonstrate and share the results and achievements of their.. more..
20th Bled eConference: eMergence 04/06/2007 Hotel Golf, Bled, Slovenia 20th Bled eConference: eMergence - Merging and Emerging Technologies, Processes, and Institutions This conference attracts speakers and delegates from business, government, information technology providers and universities and is the major venue for researchers working in all aspects of “e”. There will be a variety of keynote speakers from.. more..
The Third International Conference on Open Source Systems 11/06/2007 Limerick, Ireland The conference provides an international forum for academics and practitioners within the Free and Open Source Software domain. Participants share research findings and experiences with peers and recognised experts in the field. The conference is now well established and attracts many well-known authors and specialists, however newcomers to the.. more..
IFIP 8.6 2007 - Organisational dynamics of technology-based innovation: diversifying the research agenda 14/06/2007 Manchester, UK Although significant progress has been made, aided by academic colloquia such as IFIP WG8.6, technological innovation continues to be problematic for many organisations, with the rate of failure of IS/IT projects remaining stubbornly high. It is clearly important to understand why some innovation efforts are successful while others fail.. more..
eLearning 2007 06/07/2007 Lisbon, Portugal The IADIS e-Learning 2007 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within e-Learning. This conference covers both technical as well as the non-technical aspects of e-Learning. The conferemce accpets submissions in the following six main areas: Organisational Strategy and Management Issues; Technological Issues; e-Learning Curriculum.. more..
IFIP Working Group 8.2 Working Conference on Virtuality and Virtualization 29/07/2007 Portland, Oregon, USA In today's rapidly changing global work environment, all workers directly experience organizational complexity. Companies are functionally distributed, many across the globe. Intense competition for markets and margins makes adaptiveness and innovation imperative. Information and communication technologies (ICT) are pervasive and fundamental.. more..
IFAC-COA'07 - Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturin 02/10/2007 Monterrey, Mexico Cost Effective Automation is strongly related with the growth of emerging economics in their goal to reach high quality and productivity in their manufactured products. The Joint Conference ofthe IFAC Technical Committees of Cost Oriented Automation and Enterprise Integration and Networking is focused on practical use of those technologies.. more..
9th European Conference for the Advancement of Assistive Technology (AAATE 2007) 03/10/2007 San Sebastian, Spain This event will offer a forum to discuss the current situation, trends and challenges in the field of Assistive Technology. A call for papers has been launched, inviting all parties active in this field to participate with their experiences, developments and results.
CIB W102 3rd International Conference 16/10/2007 Stuttgart, Germany Based on their shared interests in international cooperation and their tasks of knowledge dissemination, CIB, CSTB and Fraunhofer IRB have agreed to host this event. This conference expressly intends to be an interface to link up researchers and developers of technologies and tools for information procurement and management on the one.. more..
eChallenges e-2007 24/10/2007 The Hague, The Netherlands eChallenges e-2007 Conference and Exhibition eChallenges e-2007 will focus on Applied ICT research topics addressing major societal and economic challenges. The programme will combine strategic keynote presentations, technical and policy papers, case studies, workshops, an exhibition and social activities. The programme will showcase.. more..