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Kind reminder to all D4Science World User Meeting participants to send us your feedback about this event by filling a short questionnaire at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=5b7rXWfGqfej_2b7He96yAag_3d_3d.

The survey will be closed next Wednesday, 16 December 2009.

Your impressions and proposals for future editions and areas of improvement are highly appreciated.
Thank you for taking part in the D4Science World User Meeting!

Zero-In Magazine: Governance issues for e-Infrastructures

The BELIEF editorial team is pleased to announce that the call for abstracts for the fourth issue of the Zero-In eMagazine has now been published!
Submit your articles at http://www.beliefproject.org/forms/abstract-submission

Contributions are welcomed on Governance issues for e-Infrastructures with insights on:

• Outreach strategies for greater adoption,
• Emerging technologies within the European distributed computing infrastructures (cloud, virtualisation),
• e-Infrastructures for Culture and Preservation,
• e-Infrastructures for Industrial - Finance, Manufacturing, Logistics, Applications,
• User Communities: best cases from outside Europe,
• Standards

For further details please visit http://www.beliefproject.org/zero-in/zero-in-fourth-issue-emagazine/call-for-abstracts

Do not miss this opportunity to submit your visions, analyses and news on the e-Infrastructures theme which suits you best!
The deadline to receive your expression of interest is 15 December 2009.

Please take also the opportunity to read previous issues with innovative articles and sparkling news from the e-Infrastructure world by visiting the BELIEF web pages at http://www.beliefproject.org/media-corner/e-magazine

To all D4Science World User Meeting participants, we wish this event was a fruitful and innovative learning experience as well as an opportunity to share knowledge.

We encourage you to send us your feedback about this event by filling a short questionnaire at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=5b7rXWfGqfej_2b7He96yAag_3d_3d.

Your impressions and proposals for future editions and areas of improvement are highly appreciated!
Thank you for taking part in the D4Science World User Meeting!

The GridTalk team, participating in the D4Science World User Meeting, has played a major dissemination role and brought the following five live news, plus photos and tweets.

• 'We don't want to reinvent the wheel' - an interview with D4Science 
• Through the D4Science Portal 
• A picture is worth a thousand words 
• The library of the future 
• D4Science World User Meeting 

The D4Science World User Meeting is the 'Event of the week' on the latest iSGTW, the International Science Grid This Week.

iSGTW is an international, weekly, on-line science-computing newsletter that shows the importance of distributed computing, cloud computing and supercomputing. It does so by reporting about the people and projects involved in these fields, and how these types of computing technologies are being applied to make scientific advances., providing weekly news from the worldwide scientific grid computing community.

The new version of the gCube software, version 1.5, has been released on 20 November 2009. This release consolidates the previous version. It adds new functionalities and includes a number of improvements related to the system stability.

Some of the key aspects are:

• Release of a new sub-system called "Applicaton" shipping the new "AquaMaps" service and portlet. "GPod" service and portlets, previously available under Content Management, have been moved inside this sub-system;
• Release of a new sub-system called "Broker and Matchmaker" including services enhancing dynamic deployment in the gCube infrastructure based on packages' software and hardware requirements;
• gCore container upgraded to version 0.5.2;
• a new gCore distribution (version 2.0.6) has been included in the release due to the above gCore upgrade and changes in some enabling services;
• Improvement and patches in other sub-systems: Application Support Layer, Content Management, Index Management, Information System, Messaging, Portlets, Search and VRE Management; and
• Upgrade of third-party software.

Binaries, documentation and code for gCube 1.5 are available on the D4Science Software distribution site: http://software.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu

For further information about gCube: http://www.gcube-system.org

D4Science is teaming up with GridTalk to bring you live news, photos and tweets  from the D4Science World User Meeting starting this week on Wednesday 25 November. Follow their blog posts on gridtalk-project.blogspot.com.