Yes, I am online, and EVO is running... 0. No blog posts yet for this quarter, and we are halfway through it... (hint) 1. GridPP @ EGICF - Neasan says we have a stand, and we do have a workshop. We also have a about three submissions. 2. Say what happened to that puppet discussion? I see new things about puppet occasionally (from Canadians) 3. Yesterday's pre-GDB - did anyone attend? http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=222767 4. Today's GDB - is anyone planning to attend http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=197800 5. DPM 1.8.6 - and the security "alert" 6. Storage on clouds - two (potentially) interesting perspectives, one is getting resources on demand (without asking admins), the other is using commercial cloud providers where they are good for some things and less suitable for other things, and finally the interfaces themselves as a(nother) abstraction of the underlying storage. CDMI for example has bringOnline(), although it is not implemented in the reference implementation. Er, that was three perspectives. 7. AOB