I. D-Grid All Hands Meeting
Two of the objectives of the first D-Grid All Hands Meeting were the exchange of information among specialists and social networking. Taking place from September 10 to 12, 2007, at Göttingen State and University Library, the conference attracted more than 220 participants.
The keynote was given by Tony Hey (Microsoft Research), who pointed out that an adequate cyberinfrastructure is a prerequisite for new paradigms in research methodology.
After introductory remarks on D-Grid by Wolfgang Gentzsch (D-Grid coordinator) and on the D-Grid infrastructure by Klaus-Peter Mickel (DGI coordinator), representatives of the individual D-Grid projects talked about their work and strategies. During the coffee breaks the poster and demo sessions provided a deeper insight into the projects’ work. On the second day there were workshops on specific technical and technological topics in which the question of synergies between the projects was raised.
Finally, the discussion turned to the topic of sustainability, and the participants showed concrete plans for the extension of the D-Grid infrastructure within the next few years.
TextGrid presented the first live demo of TextGridLab, the integrated workbench of the TextGrid project.
The conference was sponsored by the 
BMBF. The agenda is available here.