ESA

The 1st D4Science training event for e-Infrastructure administrators and Virtual Organization managers took place in ESA/ESRIN premises, Frascati (Italy) on 7-9 October 2009. The 3-day event, attended by around 15 participants, covered all steps required for the creation of a distributed e-Infrastructure, starting from basic machine resources deployment to the instantiation of a Virtual Research Environment.

The D4Science Training on Infrastructure and Virtual Organisations Management will take place at ESA/ESRIN premises on the 7-8-9 October 2009.

The 3-day event will cover all steps required for the creation of a distributed e-Infrastructure, starting from basic machine resources deployment to the instantiation of a Virtual Research Environment.

The 8th Technical Committee (TCom) meeting took place between the 14-18 of September 2009 in Budapest, Hungary. The meeting was organised by 4D SOFT Számítástechnikai Kft (4DSoft) at the Lions Garden Hotel in Budapest.

The 2st issue of the Zero-In eMagazine on "Earth Sciences and Astronomy: New worlds in e-Infrastructures applications" presents an article by V. Guidetti from ESA on "Earth Science as an e-Infrastructures Application: Practices at the ESA". The Zero-In eMagazine brings together views and news from global virtual research communities and features articles on pioneering technology, applications and results.