Call for Nominations to the NDS Steering Committee (resend)

[Ray Plante <rplante@illinois.edu>]

Members of the NDS Community:-

The transition from interim to ongoing governance for the National 
Data Service continues to move forward. Please find attached a copy of 
the charter, which has been updated in a few respects since the last 
meeting, reviewed by the interim Steering Committee, and will be 
formally presented for adjustment and approval as an ongoing 
(non-interim) charter at the March 25-27 NDS meeting in Austin, Texas.

In advance of the meeting, under the interim charter, we are inviting 
nominations for the regular (non-interim) NDS Steering Committee. ÂAll 
nominations are âat largeâ and then at the first meeting of Steering 
Committee the elected members will designate a chair, vice chair, 
recording secretary and four at large members. Â

Although I agreed to serve on the Interim Steering Committee to assist 
in the launch, I am recusing myself from this election Âso that I can 
continue to serve as a facilitator for this effort. Â

As additional information, the membership of the interim steering 
committee and the executive committee are listed below. ÂAll of these 
people can be nominated and any others you consider appropriate.

Thank you in advance for your consideration and nominations (self 
nominations and multiple nominations are welcome). Â

Please send nominations your nominations info@nationaldataservice.org.
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Sincerely,
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
School of Labor and Employment Relations
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign


Here are the current members of the Interim Consortium Steering Committee:

Ed Seidel (chair)
National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Director
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Alan Blatecky
RTI International, Visiting Fellow

Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
School of Labor and Employment Relations
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Kathy Fontaine
Managing Director, RDA/US
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Ian Foster
Globus, Project Director
University of Chicago/Argonne National Labs

Robert J. Hanisch
Director, Office of Data and Informatics
Material Measurement Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Kristen Ratan
Publisher
Public Library of Science

Anita de Waard
VP for Research Data Services
Elsevier Publishing

Ex Officio
John Towns
NDS Interim Director

Raymond Plante
NDS Interim Project Manager


Also, here are the current members of NDS Executive Committee
John Towns (chair)
NDS Interim Director
National Center for Supercomputing Appications, Assistant Director
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Raymond Plante
NDS Interim Project Manager
National Center for Supercomputing Appications
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Ian Foster
Globus, Project Director
University of Chicago/Argonne National Labs

Niall Gaffney
Director of Data Intensive Computing
Texas Advanced Computing Center
University of Texas, Austin

Heidi Imker
UI Research Data Service, Director
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Michael Norman
San Diego Supercomputing Center, Director
University of California San Diego

Robert Pennington
National Center for Supercomputing Appications, Assistant Director
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign