Winter 2008

Upcoming Events:
•	5th OFA Interop Event, March 17-21 at the University of New Hampshire
•	4th Annual International Sonoma Workshop, April 7-9 in Sonoma; to register for the event and book a hotel room, click here.

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Lots to report from the Marketing Working Group

Interoperability Working Group prepares for next Interop Event

User Working Group making changes email lists

Windows Working Group will soon release WinOF 1.1

Lots to report from the Marketing Working Group
We recently published an OFA page on Wikipedia and created an OFA group on Facebook. We encourage anyone in the OFA community who has a personal Facebook page to join the OFA group today and invite others. The MWG is also preparing for the 2008 Sonoma Workshop. The Workshop will be held April 7-9. There will be a cocktail reception the evening of April 6. If anyone in the OFA community would like to suggest a presentation topic, please email Jeff Scott at jeff@splitrockpr.com. The Early Bird registration fee for Sonoma is $495. After February 29, the registration fee will be $595. REGISTER TODAY.

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Interoperability Working Group prepares for next Interop Event
There will be an Interoperability Event during the weeks of March 10-21. The IBTA will be conducting compliance testing during the first week, which will result in devices being listed on the Integrators List. OFA interoperability testing will commence on March 17 and Logo Grants will be made for products that complete the testing successfully. Details for the event are available here. To see pictures from the most recent Interoperability Event, click here.

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User Working Group making changes email lists
The UWG is reorganizing its mailing lists in an effort to continue serving subscribers to the former HSIR mailing lists. Originally, the HSIR mailing lists were created outside of the OFA. HSIR was an independent, unofficial forum. Now it is part of the OFA, so it makes sense to organize the mailing lists within the OFA structure.

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Windows Working Group will soon release WinOF 1.1
WinOF (pronounced Win-O-F) is the official name of the OpenFabrics Alliance Windows release. WinOF release 1.1 is slated tentatively for March 2008.

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The OpenFabrics Alliance is developing a unified, open-source software stack for the two major RDMA fabric technologies -- InfiniBand and iWARP (also known as RDMA over Ethernet). The OpenFabrics Alliance is a not-for-profit organization.

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