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The 5th Technical Committee (TCom) meeting took place between the 1-5 of December in Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting was hosted by CERN (Meyrin site).

A D4Science TCom event is a face-to-face meeting which aims to collectively address any technical issues that arise along the course of the project and to define a concrete plan to properly address them. It is open and flexible, i.e. besides technical partners the whole consortium is potentially invited to attend dependent on the topics to be discussed.

D4Science is pleased to announce the release of the D4Science software distribution site.

The 4th Technical Committee (TCom) meeting took place between the 8-12 of September in Basel, Switzerland.

This version of the D4Science production infrastructure involves sites contributed by CNR, ESA, NKUA, UNIBASEL, ENG, BDM-USTRATH, and also includes one EGEE production site from Ireland. It runs the DHN-based version of the gCube software and gLite.

The infrastructure hosts the resources provided by the Environmental Monitoring (EM) community and currently supports the ImpECT Virtual Organisation and its Virtual Research Environments (VREs).

These VREs are accessible through the D4Science portal at: http://portal.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu. Note that at this stage only project members can access the D4Science production infrastructure by completing the registration form.

This is a good opportunity for project members to exploit a VRE, get familiar with the interface, run basic demonstrations, show and discuss these concepts with other users. For this purpose, a Demo VRE has been set up. The EM community members also have access to two EM specific VREs: Digital Library and Vegetation. This is also the first experience for the technical team in operating the production environment, and it is already leading to a number of enhancements (software configurations, operational procedures and tools).

The 3rd Technical Committee (TCom) meeting took place the last week of May 2008 on the beautiful island of Santorini in Gree