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GGF14 Community Council Summary

Geoffrey Foxgcf@indiana.edu

Community Council Organization

Major Grid Projects

Software Suppliers

Cross-Cutting Activities

Research Applications

Tech. Innovators

Industry Applications

Grid Operations

Liaison AreasGGF Community Areas Community Affairs

Objectives & Measures - Community1. Publish and communicate GGF

information to enable community members to productively participate and contribute to GGF communities.

• Proactively seek out and work with leaders in important communities ( industry and the rest )

• Publish by mid-year ’05 a GGF Community Participation Guide outlining the value (Why) and the mechanisms (How) to participate in GGF communities

• Each community area publishes a Community Charter Document outlining charter and rational, expectations and processes; activities and deliverables

2. Develop and execute a community-oriented focus for GGF events ensuring meetings are well attended and productive for target communities.

• Community-oriented tracks are developed and established during GGF14 and GGF15

• Community surveys indicate increased satisfaction with GGF events and increased participation at GGF events

• Proposals are written to EC, NSF, DoE and other sources for CCGT and other fundable activities

3. Pro-actively explore, develop, and establish new Industry grid communities

• Establish 3 active industrial grid user communities with GGF by YE05

4. Document and publish community-driven application requirement profiles, usability criteria and benchmarks

• Publish by YE05 Requirement Documents from 2 research and 2 industry application communities on topics related to grid technology specifications and standards

• By mid-2006 have at least two communities committed to executing a usability test of OGSA standards based on available implementations

5. Develop GGF membership database and community survey model

• GGF membership model, database and survey mechanisms in place and operational by YE05

MeasuresObjectives

Going Very Well Promising but caveats

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)

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

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

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)

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?

GGF Community Organization

Cross-Cutting Activities

Process WGBenchmarking

“ibilities”

Research andEducation

Applications

Tech. Innovators

Industry/Government Applications

Grid Operations

Infrastructure

GGF Community Areas Community Affairs

Major Grid Projects

Software(Solution) Suppliers

Regions

VIPDecision makers

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!

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

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

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

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

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)?

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

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

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

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

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

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)

InvitedApp or Mixed App/tech

InvitedTech or Mixed App/tech

9-11.30

4-5

Keynotes

Keynotes

Could beJustKeynote

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