The European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, Software and Services Architectures and Infrastructures Unit D3, is pleased to invite you to the next Collaboration Meeting which will take place on 22-23 September 2008 in Brussels, as already announced last March.

The objectives of this Collaboration Meeting are
- to achieve a better understanding of the results of the FP6 projects in the area (and their use by the new projects)
- to consolidate the collaboration activities among the FP7 projects in order to build an even stronger community

The programme foresees two days of technical and collaboration workshops led by project participants. The Collaboration Meeting will be co-organised by the European Commission, the BREIN and the XtreemOS projects.
You may receive requests for contributions to the meeting from them directly or from the coordinators of the collaboration working groups: I cordially invite you to actively take them up in order to help shaping a meeting which is really useful to your work.

Participation to the Collaboration Meeting is foreseen for FP7 ICT projects funded by Challenge 1.2 as well as for FP6 IST projects funded by the Grid Technologies or the Software Technologies Strategic Objectives. Also projects that want to contribute to the Future Internet Assembly and that want to collaborate with the Challenge 1.2 projects are welcome.

The preliminary agenda is now online at http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/events-20080922-23-cm-soft_en.html and we cordially invite you to check it. The registration facility is expected to open soon and we will communicate to you as soon as it is.

Most of the sessions will correspond to one or two collaboration working groups. These sessions should be organised by the leaders of the collaboration working groups. To find the coorinators of these CGW, please refer to the ECSS website http://www.eu-ecss.eu/contents/technical-group/technical-groups/ or to the related paper which has been sent to you. Please note that for each session there is a reference project officer indicated. You should contact him/her in case of any questions.

We also wish to draw your attention to the programme of one of the parallel sessions which will host demos of results coming from the projects. You will be soon contacted by the co-organising projects with a call for proposals for demos: we expect you to take this opportunity for showing the community the results achived by the project you lead. Demonstrations are not expected to illustrate the full project, but should concentrate on some specific results. Larger projects can also present more than one demo. Details on this and on how to manifest your interest will be sent soon.