ITWG report for IOI 2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The ITWG is run by Martin Mares with the help of several volunteers from the Charles University in Prague. (1) IOI Practice CD At the previous IOI, we have suggested dropping support for the old IOI practice CD, but several members of the GA wished to keep it available. Therefore we have put together a completely new practice CD based on an up-to-date Linux distribution and made it available at the IOI website. (2) IOI infrastructure IOI mailing lists and ISC infrastructure, originally maintained by Tom Verhoeff in Eindhoven, have been moved to a new server at the Charles University in Prague maintained by the ITWG. We are also cooperating with Troy Vasiga on moving the IOI website and the domain name servers from the somewhat unreliable hosting company to a better place. (3) IOI software library The ITWG and the ISC agree that it is better to leave the choice of the contest system to the host (with supervision by the ISC), but avoid unnecessary duplication of development by offering a library of software modules from which the host can choose at his wish. Several modules are already available under a free software license and some of them will be probably used at IOI 2009. (4) Support for the ISC and HSC The ITWG provides support and advice to ISC, HSC and also the HSC of IOI 2009 in technical matters. Martin Mares, 13.8.2008