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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear GWS members (and others)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As you probably know, we are planning to work in GWS on the connection of science platforms related with federated execution of workflows, identifying required protocols, data models and other standards needed for this connection.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some initial definition could be found here:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/ComputingServicesAPI">https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/ComputingServicesAPI</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To formally start the activity within the GWS WG and find collaborators, I would like to ask for an internal meeting in mid-September.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We propose 20/09 at 13:00 UTC so you have time to mark it into your calendars.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We will send a reminder close to the date with an agenda.  <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Note: I am extending the invitation to some SKA Regional Centres dev teams that are already analysing federated execution. Feel free to invite anyone at your organisations that could be interested to collaborate and, if needed, join GWS.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Jesus Salgado & Sara Bertocco<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="color:#070068;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Jesús Salgado</span><span lang="ES" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:'Verdana',sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> <br>
<span style="color:#E70068">SKA Regional Centre Architect</span></span><span lang="ES" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:'Verdana',sans-serif;color:#5B6770;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">SKA Observatory<br>
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