----- Forwarded message from "Cox S.J." <S.J.Cox@soton.ac.uk> -----

Dear All,

We are finalising our schedule for "The Usable Grid Workshop"- see attached- and also the agenda for our session.

If you have not already registered but will definitely be coming, perhaps you could drop Thilo and me an email so that we can get an idea of numbers and help us to ensure that our agenda/ workshop programme will address issues relevant and interesting to you.

Regards,

Simon

Workshop Proposal for GGF13 (Seoul, March 2005)

A) Workshop Title

The Usable Grid

We intend a type 1 workshop.

B) Proposed workshop organizer names and affiliations (possibly incl. review committee for type 2). Be sure to identify yourself if you are a chair of an existing RG/WG.

Thilo Kielmann <kielmann@cs.vu.nl> (co-chair APPS-RG) Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Thomas H. Hinke <thinke@mail.arc.nasa.gov> (co-chair APPS-RG) NASA AMES Simon Cox <S.J.Cox@soton.ac.uk> (aspirant co-chair APPS-RG) University of Southampton Yoshio Tanaka <yoshio.tanaka@aist.go.jp> (liaison Asia-Pacific) AIST, Japan

C) RG/WG that will be involved (including potential RG/WGs as well as RG/WGs up for approval). If you are proposing a workshop without being a full RG, please provide a separate RG submission info, including candidate RG name, charter, area, chairs, BOF descriptions, etc.

Applications and Testbeds Research Group (APPS-RG)

D) Scope and Content (a paragraph or two of the workshop description to be put on the program.

The workshop shall address the tensions that arise around the usability of grid technology for application users. We intend to have two things: 1. presentations of "successs stories" and show cases of well-functioning technology (including demos) 2. panel discussions between application users, system administrators (providers), and middleware developers. The panel discussions should uncover some of the "dirty laundry" that is lurking under the shiny success reports. The three groups (users, admins, toolsmiths) are supposed to express their expectations in terms of "do's and dont's" to the respective two other groups.

By having this workshop in Seoul, we intend to foster presentations of success stories from the Asia-Pacific area. We are seeking to invite a series of speakers that can put Asia-Pacific grid initiatives into the larger context of the "Global" Grid Forum. While Asia-Pacific should be represented well, also significant contributions from other regions will be sought.

Especially for the panel discussions, we also want to bring in participants from other parts of the world, representing leading software developers and deploying organizations/projects.

E) Potential speakers for type one (invited( and possibly two workshops. Any additional info are welcome including the title of the talk, their abstract, etc. In fact the proposed program may be put here.

See above (D). Due to the extremely short time frame, individual speakers could not be identified yet, but we are very confident from our group history to assemble a very strong and interesting event.

F) Past History of hosting a similar workshop inside or outside GGF.

Prior to GGF5 in Glasgow: NeSC Workshop on Applications and Testbeds on the Grid organized by APPS-RG and GUS-RG (just prior to GGF5)

At GGF7 in Tokyo: Applications workshop: What can be achieved with today's Grid technology (and what cannot)? organized by APPS-RG

At GGF8 in Seattle: Workshop on Grid Applications and Programming Tools organized by APPS-RG and UPDT-RG

At GGF10 in Berlin: Workshop on Case Studies on Grid Applications organized by APPS-RG, UPDT-RG, US-RG, and PGM-RG

At GGF11 in Honolulu: Semantic Grid Applications Workshop organized by APPS-RG and SEM-GRD

At GGF12 in Brussels: Workshop on Grid Application Programming Interfaces organized by APPS-RG with DRMAA-WG, GridRPC-WG, SAGA-RG

G) Duration of workshop ? half day (2-3 slots incl. Breaks) or whole day (4-5 slots)

whole day

H) Estimated # of participants (if possible)

50 - 100 previous workshops have been in this range of participants, depending on the attractivity of the location

I) Publication Plans --- please indicate if you have plan to publish the workshop result with a certain publisher. If left out we will assume that the workshop product will be a GGF Informational Document.

We will produce a GGF Informational Document, containing abstracts of the presentations and summaries of the panel discussions.

Note: We are aware that we are lagging behind with the publication of reports from previous workshops. However, this has to be attributed (in large part) to GGF's editorial process and the odds of GridForge. At GGF12 we had personal communication with the new GGF editor who was very positive about us publishing proceedings and is very much understanding the special needs of these reports, compared to, for example, standards track documents. The first report (for the GGF8 workshop) has now reached an agreed upon format and should be put to the final public comment phase every day now. As we finally have an agreed upon format, we can now produce the missing reports accordingly, and will do soon.

----- End forwarded message ----- -- Thilo Kielmann http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/