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GGF14 Community Council Summary Geoffrey Fox gcf@indiana

GGF14 Community Council Summary Geoffrey Fox gcf@indiana.edu. GGF Community Areas. Liaison Areas. Community Affairs. Research Applications. Major Grid Projects. Cross-Cutting Activities. Industry Applications. Software Suppliers. Grid Operations. Tech. Innovators.

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GGF14 Community Council Summary Geoffrey Fox gcf@indiana

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  1. GGF14 Community Council SummaryGeoffrey Foxgcf@indiana.edu

  2. GGF Community Areas Liaison Areas Community Affairs Research Applications Major Grid Projects Cross-Cutting Activities Industry Applications Software Suppliers Grid Operations Tech. Innovators Community Council Organization

  3. Going Very Well Promising but caveats Objectives & Measures - Community Measures Objectives

  4. GGF14 Community Program Track highlights • New Grid Communities (Network Centric Operations, Space, Library and Information Provision (CENDI), caBIG Project, Agents, Digitized artifact Cultural Grid) • Education Grids (K-12 Laboratories, Tribal Colleges, Africa) • Community Tutorial/Workshops/Practice (Gridwise tutorial, Globus Toolkit v.4 experiences, Improving interaction between GGF and Grid Projects, Grid applications: from Early Adopters to Mainstream Users, Science Gateways, Trusted Grids, WSDM) • RG Workshops (Healthcare and Privacy: Is GGF Doing Enough to meet the needs of the Healthcare Industry?, Grid Applications workshop above, Telco, GCE reborn via Science Gateways)

  5. GGF14 Comments on Objectives I • GGF14 has possibly too many new communities! • Need to surpass in GGF15 with follow-on to GGF14 communities and further new communities • Participation and Charter documents are postponed as we need to get more input from communities – especially new ones • Three meetings at GGF14 (Council, Tuesday/Wednesday panels) • Survey objective will get more meaningful as we have new community activities to generate information • Network-Centric (DoD), Library/Information provision and Telco likely to over-satisfy industry requirements objective • Research application requirements are in some sense in-hand already • Usability tests of OGSA need to be clarified as depend on status of OGSA

  6. GGF14 Comments on Objectives II • I wrote GGF into one NSF Education Grid proposal with usual low probability of acceptance; community proposals will be straightforward when GGF value clearer to communities • For communities like education, GGF could become natural place for heterogeneous distributed community to meet and see how to build a grid knitting them together • Believe excellent Web resources and activities stressing how to build grids (best practice, available software) would help such “non-technical” communities • Interactions with real software/systems like GT4, application experience like Science Gateways seem very valuable • Software supplier community could be worth developing • Supporting communities will be easier if GGF is perceived as inclusive

  7. Some action items for GGF14 Meetings • Review objectives and measures • Clarify workshops, tutorials, community tracks • What they are and how they differ (evolving) • How do you organize • GGF15 approach (lots and helped clarify approaches) • Decide how do produce charter and participation documents • What do we offer communities and vice-versa • Discuss survey (looks OK) , requirements, Web resource strategies • Marketing (agreed essential)

  8. Council Meeting 26 June 2005 • Marketing important • Liaison with W2COG NCOIC • Community Sessions are: • Providers including Grid operations • Consumers • Mixed as in Enterprise program • In GGF14 for example • GT4 is pure provider • Science Gateway is mixed “Best practice” • Must have clear themes for marketing • Workshops, invited and unsolicited sessions compete • Need to be careful about who assigns RG’s in community and tutorials • Don’t allow RG sessions to be used as workshops • Tutorials on Sunday in GGF15?

  9. Research and Education Applications Major Grid Projects Industry/Government Applications VIP Decision makers Grid Operations Infrastructure Regions Software (Solution) Suppliers Tech. Innovators GGF Community Organization GGF Community Areas Community Affairs Cross-Cutting Activities Process WG Benchmarking “ibilities”

  10. Community Strategy in GGF • Support Grid technology consumers and providers • Support Industry, Government, Academia; deployment/production and research • Given that many fields can use Grids and are starting to look at technology and that technology is rapidly changing … • … Useful to provide mechanisms to allow communities to form and interact internally and with other communities • We would like any input on how best to do this!

  11. Basic Community GGF Meeting Strategy • Standards and Grid Research groups have their sessions • IDG will grow exhibit space and ensure major enterprise tracks once a year • So imagine a set of similar emphasis sessions organized to capture different communities spread over meetings • Science Gateway session captured portals; GT4 session captured key operational software • Goal to make it interesting for communities to come to GGF due to interesting application, technology, and infrastructure people and presentations • Implies grow “solution” (software and infrastructure) emphasis in GGF

  12. Grid Web Resources • The many activities at GGF meetings three times a year represents an important intellectual effort that others would like to access • We intend to capture material presented and produce a set of Web resources on technologies and applications • We will accept links from community to add value to GGF web resources • semanticgrid.org and computingportals.org are examples of specialized community portals • Request for making BOF material available

  13. How Can you Help? • Please tell us how to put together mix of community activities • Interacting synergistic tracks (90 minute to full day workshops, best practice invited talks/tracks) • Tell us how to contact your community for presentations and participation • Tell us about any new communities we should explore • Note communities include Regions • Cape Town volunteered to host GGF22 to support African region

  14. Results of Tuesday Evening Panel I • GGF14 is very rough, GGF15 rough and one should already be planning later meetings • How do we cope with lack of USA meetings in 2006 – maybe start a USA Regional GGF • Need plenty of discussion – panels rather than talks • Set up a community advisory board • Couple technology and applications in program • Conference expenses are significant for some communities • Preserve one day passes

  15. Results of Tuesday Evening Panel II • Additional categories added including education to research, government to industry • Requirements, use cases important • The “boxes” raised concerns as Grid are intrinsically “multibox” • Emphasis boxes are to label GFSG members (area directors); not activities • For example research and education cannot be separated • Boxes are classes of grids • Document success stories (summarize projects) and explain the value added • EU projects doing this (GRIDSTART)?

  16. Results of Tuesday Evening Panel III • Regional Communities interesting • GGF is we not GGF • Grids can build communities as opposed to communities building Grids • Link home schooling with other parts of education • Napster/BitTorrent/Grokster created file sharing communities! • Start with early adopters in community • Build pilots • Outreach pilot success to full community • GGF could attend standard meetings of a community with tutorials, exhibits, workshops

  17. Results of Tuesday Evening Panel IV • Add Infrastructure transformation – how do you deal with existing non Grid systems • Non technical Grid issues need to be discussed – policy issues • Mind transformation • Need discussions of current Grid applications that are not too sophisticated • Need better “spreading” of community tracks across all GGF days

  18. Results of Wednesday Evening Panel I • Have 45 minute sessions at GGF15 • Produce 2-3 page pamphlets for distribution at GGF meetings and at GGF outreach visits to other community meetings • UK e-Science regional centers can carry the word to their regions and all have access grids • Make Monday and Thursday invited talks each mixed between technology and applications so you get all with a one-day visit • Support SME’s (Small and Medium size industries) with <10 people size focus • Support New media community

  19. Results of Wednesday Evening Panel II • There was a long discussion of value of Access Grid • It was noted that SCGlobal – Access Grid at SCXX – did not get much use • Suggested highlighting special regional facilities such as those in Washington DC or UK centers • We should see if one community room at GGF15 can be Access Grid (Video Conferencing) enabled • We will add to call for community participation • Responses from organizations interested in supporting remote Access Grids • Comments in session proposals as to value of Access Grid enabling

  20. Results of Wednesday Evening Panel III • Design session(s) for Decision Makers (Industry or Government) • Success stories • Possible GGF15 Sessions • Successes and Failures • Earth Science • Accessing rare and expensive instruments • SAP • It was noted that many Industry specific newsletters exist; we could ask them to advertise GGF community session calls • There is a catalog of such newsletters • We should advertise email (communities@ggf.org) for community leadership • We probably want a broad community mailing list for those interested in helping • We should advertise URL for GGF14 community material

  21. GGF15 Plans • Black lines include workshops, tutorials, unsolicited sessions • The topics at GGF14 could be expanded • Green Lines are specialized enterprise sessions Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday (TBN) 9-11.30 Could be Just Keynote Keynotes 4-5 Keynotes InvitedApp or Mixed App/tech InvitedTech or Mixed App/tech

  22. Next Steps • We will build web pages based on GGF14 • We will put out a call for communities, tutorials and workshops • We will plan and put together the proposed Grid technology and applications best practice tracks • We are soliciting comments on all aspects of our activities • All workshop proposals should include marketing suggestions

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