Excellent! Earlier today I applied for a place at the Portals & Portlets 2003 workshop and I've just got an e-mail confirmation that I've been allocated a place. According to the programme it should be an interesting four days:

This workshop, to be hosted at the UK National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh, falls within the remit of the Grid Computing Environments research group of the Global Grid Forum. Attendees will be from groups worldwide active in developing generic portal and portlet technologies or in applying such frameworks to e-Science tasks such as client-side Grid interfaces and Problem Solving Environments. The first two days of the workshop will be of wide interest and will provide information and review current projects. The second two days will aim to identify current research issues, future directions and areas where shared technology can accelerate the deployment and uptake of e-Science.