With this email, we are launching Electronic Proceedings in Theoretic Computer Science (EPTCS) a new international refereed open access venue for the rapid electronic publication of the proceedings of workshops and conferences, and of festschrifts, etc, in the general area of theoretical computer science, broadly construed. We do not charge authors or event organisers for electronic publication in EPTCS in any way. If hard-copies of proceedings are desired, event organisers have the choice of organising the printing themselves or taking advantage of a standard contract we will make with a printing house. Copyright on all papers is retained by the author, and full-text electronic access to all papers is freely available, without any need for registration or subscription. Permanent archival of EPTCS publications is ensured by organising EPTCS as an overlay of the Computing Research Repository (CoRR): see arXiv.org. The content of EPTCS will be indexed by DBLP. Only original papers will be considered for publication in EPTCS: manuscripts are accepted for review by an EPTCS conference or workshop with the understanding that the same work has not been published, nor is presently submitted, elsewhere. However, full versions of extended abstracts published in EPTCS, or substantial revisions, may later be published elsewhere. The submission and refereeing process is handled entirely by the organisation of the conference, workshop or festschrift to which the paper is submitted. Our editorial board carefully selects which workshops and conferences can be trusted to select scientific papers of quality only, and only those events will be granted a contract to fill a volume of EPTCS. Our editorial board consists of: Luca Aceto Rob van Glabbeek Gordon Plotkin Rajeev Alur Lane A. Hemaspaandra Vladimiro Sassone Krzysztof R. Apt Matthew Hennessy Robert H. Sloan Lars Arge Bartek Klin Wolfgang Thomas Ran Canetti Evangelos Kranakis Irek Ulidowski Luca Cardelli Shay Kutten Dorothea Wagner Rocco De Nicola Nancy Lynch Martin Wirsing Jose' Luiz Fiadeiro Aart Middeldorp Moti Yung Wan Fokkink Benjamin Pierce Further information can be found on our website: http://eptcs.org/. In the hope this initiative will benefit the theoretical computer science community, Rob van Glabbeek (Editor in Chief)