Submissions of extended abstracts for participation in the EGI User Forum 2011 is now open online, The event will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania (11-15 April). EGI, in conjunction with the European Middleware Initiative and Vilnius University, welcomes contributions from the European e-Infrastructure community, and their international collaborators. End-users, application and tool developers as well as operations staff across Europe can submit abstracts for:

• Oral presentations

• Posters

• Demonstrations

• Workshops

• Stands for the exhibition area

Accepted abstracts for oral presentations will be published in the conference's abstract book. The programme committee is looking for contributions on topics such as:

• Current research approaches or results obtained from using e-Infrastructures

• Domain specific and generic portals that simplify access to e-Infrastructures

• Experiences from applications ported, developed or deployed with e-Infrastructures

• End-user environments (tools/portals/gateways) for accessing e-Infrastructure

• Services or software relating to large-scale data analysis or data-oriented applications on distributed computing infrastructures

• Provision and support for user-oriented e-Infrastructures

• Management and/or exploitation of emerging computing technologies (desktops, virtualisation, clouds)

• Integration, sharing and exploitation of national and international e-Infrastructure

• Delivery of operational e-Infrastructure services to its users

Abstract submission will end on 17 December.