Dear OW2 Members, Dear All,

Our high point this month will be the results of the election of our new board members. The ballot is open until Sunday April 12, midnight CET, so if you haven't voted yet there is still time. Vote NOW! We have over 30 topics for our 2010 OW2 Programming Contest. Contestants should register now here and sponsors are still welcome to check our (very affordable) sponsoring packages. Pleade submit your topics here, until April 18. We had a busy community and marcom schedule last month: the minutes of the meeting of the Technology Council are here,  those of the Board of Directors here, and the links to all the presentations of our conference track and the pictures of OW2 at Solution Linux are here.Last but certainly not least, both the Technology Council and the Board of Directors agreed that Cloud Computing represents a strategic opportunity for OW2. Indeed, there will be no open cloud without open source middleware for the cloud. We started an internal discussion, code named JetStreaml, see the presentation here, and we decided to launch a new Initiative dedicated to combining our open souce software cloud-oriented community assets. The OW2 Initiative will help define the future of open source cloud computing. Watch this space.
Cedric thomas

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>Community News OW2 Election The election process will be over in a few days. Vote NOW! Corporate members here and Individual members here. The result of the election will be published on Thursday April 15, here. Solutions Linux: follow-up The OW2 Village was once again a major attraction at Solutions Linux 2010. Particularly successful were our special one-day dedicated conference - and our wine and cheese party! See the presentations and pictures here . Solutions Cloud Computing OW2 will be exhibiting at the Solutions Cloud Computing trade show and conference in Paris, May 5-6, 2010. A unique opportunity to position the Consortium in this exciting new trend. More. OSCON Come and demonstrate your programming skills! Register here. We already have over 30 topics for you and more are coming until April 18 and, of course, we are still welcoming sponsors. More. New machines for OW2 (continued)

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>Outlook OW2 Annual Conference The 2010 OW2 Annual Conference will be held 13-14 October, in Paris. The two-day event will be packed with presentations and round tables. We are currently still evaluating location options. Suggestions welcome. More. Open World Forum This year we will again be involved in the organization of the Open World Forum, Paris, Sept. 30 - Oct. 1. The draft program will be published soon.