August 2005 - ccgt - lists.ogf.org

Community Council telecon notes
by Julie Wulf-Knoerzer 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hi all, Thank you for your participation in Tuesday's call. Below are my notes (as well as updates on progress since the call): +++++ *Addition of evening sessions on Monday and Wednesday (subject to approval of the ESC and IDG). -This has been officially requested and we await confirmation. We have filled these slots and informed the proposers in anticipation of no issues. *We are in need of 2 additional 90-minute slots for the Campus Grids Panels (I will work with standards folks on this). -I have officially requested this. I also informed the Campus Grids folks that we intend to market their Sunday workshop (hosted by Harvard) and are seeking space for them on the community program for the panels. They are positive about both. *Thursday tutorials will be offered boxed lunches should they desire 'working lunches' (Globus has requested this). -Please see 'Tutorials' below. *I have not received OMII Tutorial and Use Case session abstracts. -OMII has been received. -Craig will provide use case abstract upon return from vacation. *Titles/abstracts for Monday and Thursday Keynotes. -Geoffrey will contact Tony about Monday; Julie will contact Andrew about Thursday. *Linesch opening (Monday or Tuesday?). -It was agreed that Mark should present an opening talk (session is 90 minutes so there will be time for he and Tony) on Monday. Julie/Geoffrey to contact Mark via ESC call. *Acceptance notification/web posting. -Program, abstracts, etc. have been placed on the GGF website (http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_ggf15_Community_Involvement.htm) -All session organizers have been notified of their acceptance. *Tutorials. -The submissions that we received (with the exception of GridWise) have been renamed as 'Community Technology Updates' and will be offered to all attendees at no additional cost (GridWise will cost $90). This decision was made by Geoffrey and Steve Crumb due to presenters requesting to forfeit their reimbursement and allow participants to attend without paying an additional fee. All presenters have been notified of this change in terminology as well as the fact that they will receive no reimbursement. -Due to the change above, the schedule was adjusted to accommodate the Grid-Shib workshop request (see attached for current program matrix) *Email to community. -Email has been sent to Grid-Announce announcing the preliminary community program. *Other marketing activities: -We have placed a 'banner' on the GGF website. -GGF web template has been sent to all accepted session leaders so they may customize with their most recent session information (slides, bios, etc.) and return to us. -We will provide session leaders with brief overview text of GGF and the community program for inclusion in their materials. -We requested that session leaders copy us (communities(a)ggf.org - Julie and Geoffrey) on their outreach emails so that we can track marketing activities. +++++ Next call is scheduled for Tuesday, 06-September. Please let me know if you items to be added to the agenda. Thanks again, Julie +++++++++++++++++++ Julie Wulf-Knoerzer Manager of Community Development Global Grid Forum wulf(a)ggf.org ph. 630/252-7163 fax 630/252-4466

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Community Council Telecon
by Julie Wulf-Knoerzer 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Hi all, Just a reminder of tomorrow's community call which will be held at 10:00a central time (reminder: no GFSG policy call tomorrow). Dial-in information is as follows: US: 1-888-455-3044 Int'l: 1-210-839-8611 passcode: 74658. Attached, you will find a comprehensive version of the GridWorld/GGF15 schedule for discussion. Open items/next steps include: *We have added evening sessions on Monday and Wednesday (subject to approval of the ESC and IDG). *We are in need of 2 additional 90-minute slots for the Campus Grids Panels (I will work with standards folks on this). *Thursday tutorials will be offered boxed lunches should they desire 'working lunches' (Globus has requested this). *I have not received OMII Tutorial and Use Case session abstracts. *Titles/abstracts for Monday and Thursday Keynotes. *Linesch opening (Monday or Tuesday?). *Acceptance notification/web posting. *Tutorial registration open. *Email to community. Talk to you tomorrow, Julie +++++++++++++++++++ Julie Wulf-Knoerzer Manager of Community Development Global Grid Forum wulf(a)ggf.org ph. 630/252-7163 fax 630/252-4466

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GGF15 Community Program and ACTIONS
by Julie Wulf-Knoerzer 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

Dear all, Thanks again for spending additional time on yesterday's call to discuss the community program for GridWorld/GGF15. Key Community Council Items and Actions: *CC members on the call expressed no concerns over non-individual submissions or tutorials. We ask that other CC members provide YES/NO/MAYBE about remaining submissions before Friday. If MAYBE or NO, please provide any concerns or comments. *Please provide any tutorial comments by Thursday morning. We intend to begin collecting registration early next week. *We will attempt to merge individual submissions to other group submissions or seek strong endorsement from ADs by Friday before populating the schedule matrix (Julie to handle). Individual submissions and actions include: -Condor-Shib: Connecting the Upper and Lower Layers of the Middleware Stack in Computational Grids Potentially add to GridShib workshop - send to Von Welch for adoption. -User Management and Access Control within the Grid Endorsement sought from Ken Klingenstein's area. -Globus and OGSA-DAI in practice: A report from Georgetown University on participation in the National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics caBIG project Architecture workspace, with a live demonstration of the caBIG grid Potentially add to LifeSciences workshop - send to Dave Angulo for adoption. -Provisioning & Managing Switching Infrastructure as a Grid Resource Potential for enterprise program - send to Mark and Steve for advice. Attached, you will find a document containing the proposals (minus the individual submissions above). Your timely feedback is appreciated - thanks! Julie +++++++++++++++++++ Julie Wulf-Knoerzer Manager of Community Development Global Grid Forum wulf(a)ggf.org ph. 630/252-7163 fax 630/252-4466

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RE: Community Activities at Meetings
by Walter Stewart 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

I am essentially in agreement with Geoffrey's analysis. I would also say that we need to review things after Boston to see how GGF activities and Grid World work together. Walter Walter Stewart Director Business Development SGI Canada Global Co-ordinator SGI Grid Strategy Directeur du développement des affaires SGI Canada Co-ordonnateur mondial de stratégie "Grid Computing" 905-282-8997 -----Original Message----- From: Geoffrey Fox [mailto:gcf@grids.ucs.indiana.edu] Sent: 16 August 2005 17:20 To: CCGT(a)ggf.org Cc: Linesch, Mark; Julie Wulf-Knoerzer; Steve Crumb; Ann M. Collins; Walter Stewart Subject: Community Activities at Meetings Please comment on the analysis below that is meant to summarize my thoughts on what we have learnt so far It was requested by Mark at last events steering group call Below I view Enterprise as a particular (large important) community and so I don't differentiate it. GGF Community Challenges and Strategy ------------------------------------------- I think the CC (Community Council) has as promised successfully developed and executed a community focus for GGF14 and should probably succeed in similar way for GGF15. We have not published as promised a community participation guide or charter documents for all areas. (Industrial Applications are one where a draft exists) Let us discuss the nature of community activities and why there are difficulties in putting participation and charter documents in writing. First note that currently at least, all GGF-related community activities are associated with GGF meetings although of course communities associated with GGF do lots of things outside GGF. Communities are attracted to GGF meetings presumably partly due to the effectiveness of organization of an event at GGF meetings but other organizations can compete here. I suggest that dominant attraction of communities to GGF is the synergy between the community event and other GGF meeting activities. This synergy comes from both standards and other community activities. In particular a particular community member benefits from attending other events and individuals primarily attracted to GGF for other reasons, attend the community event and so enhance it. Given the synergy observation, it suggests that we need to think about the community from both particular functional areas as now but also from the synergy point of view. The need to have synergy implies a) The main role of area director is to to catalyze the interest of communities to have GGF related events b) The success of the events is partly connected to contacting people within given community but also in having other synergistic activities c) The attraction of a particular GGF meeting depends on its geographical area and the existence of both standards and community activities or some other synergy as explored in 4) below. 1) Thus it is doubtful if GGF events outside USA will succeed unless there is effort and people devoted to exploiting geographical synergies -- we saw this working in last Korea GGF meeting. 2) It is not going to be easy to make events successful unless they have both standards and community components. Thus partnering community with a standards-free Gridworld in 2006 seems challenging as we will miss standards people synergy. 3) It is not clear if communities can get momentum with one event per year; it is certain that they need at least one per year. 2006 with at most one event in USA will be challenging and after GGF15 we will be challenged to maintain momentum with the next USA event at least a year away. This is not to say Athens and Japan in 2006 will not succeed but rather their community events will have a regional flavor and will have significant input from local people. I discuss the challenge to maintain interest in communities with a USA bias in 2006. 4) I think it is important to experiment with a low-key regional GGF event in USA (the mid-west or equivalent such geographically focused event.) This could be community only, held in late spring 2006 (six months after Boston), and have a mix of "international" communities interested in a USA meeting then but with main drive from Grid communities in the chosen geographical region,. 5) We need to structure the community council with people able to deliver on synergies. We need either directors or advisers able to deliver on geographical synergies. Please comment Thank you! -- : : Geoffrey Fox gcf(a)indiana.edu FAX 8128567972 http://www.infomall.org : Phones Cell 812-219-4643 Home 8123239196 Lab 8128567977

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Community Activities at Meetings
by Geoffrey Fox 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

Please comment on the analysis below that is meant to summarize my thoughts on what we have learnt so far It was requested by Mark at last events steering group call Below I view Enterprise as a particular (large important) community and so I don't differentiate it. GGF Community Challenges and Strategy ------------------------------------------- I think the CC (Community Council) has as promised successfully developed and executed a community focus for GGF14 and should probably succeed in similar way for GGF15. We have not published as promised a community participation guide or charter documents for all areas. (Industrial Applications are one where a draft exists) Let us discuss the nature of community activities and why there are difficulties in putting participation and charter documents in writing. First note that currently at least, all GGF-related community activities are associated with GGF meetings although of course communities associated with GGF do lots of things outside GGF. Communities are attracted to GGF meetings presumably partly due to the effectiveness of organization of an event at GGF meetings but other organizations can compete here. I suggest that dominant attraction of communities to GGF is the synergy between the community event and other GGF meeting activities. This synergy comes from both standards and other community activities. In particular a particular community member benefits from attending other events and individuals primarily attracted to GGF for other reasons, attend the community event and so enhance it. Given the synergy observation, it suggests that we need to think about the community from both particular functional areas as now but also from the synergy point of view. The need to have synergy implies a) The main role of area director is to to catalyze the interest of communities to have GGF related events b) The success of the events is partly connected to contacting people within given community but also in having other synergistic activities c) The attraction of a particular GGF meeting depends on its geographical area and the existence of both standards and community activities or some other synergy as explored in 4) below. 1) Thus it is doubtful if GGF events outside USA will succeed unless there is effort and people devoted to exploiting geographical synergies -- we saw this working in last Korea GGF meeting. 2) It is not going to be easy to make events successful unless they have both standards and community components. Thus partnering community with a standards-free Gridworld in 2006 seems challenging as we will miss standards people synergy. 3) It is not clear if communities can get momentum with one event per year; it is certain that they need at least one per year. 2006 with at most one event in USA will be challenging and after GGF15 we will be challenged to maintain momentum with the next USA event at least a year away. This is not to say Athens and Japan in 2006 will not succeed but rather their community events will have a regional flavor and will have significant input from local people. I discuss the challenge to maintain interest in communities with a USA bias in 2006. 4) I think it is important to experiment with a low-key regional GGF event in USA (the mid-west or equivalent such geographically focused event.) This could be community only, held in late spring 2006 (six months after Boston), and have a mix of "international" communities interested in a USA meeting then but with main drive from Grid communities in the chosen geographical region,. 5) We need to structure the community council with people able to deliver on synergies. We need either directors or advisers able to deliver on geographical synergies. Please comment Thank you! -- : : Geoffrey Fox gcf(a)indiana.edu FAX 8128567972 http://www.infomall.org : Phones Cell 812-219-4643 Home 8123239196 Lab 8128567977

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GridWorld/GGF15 Community program + telecon tomorrow
by Julie Wulf-Knoerzer 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Hi all, As noted last week, please plan to spend additional time after tomorrow's bi-weekly policy call to discuss proposals for the community track at GridWorld/GGF15. Attached, you will find the submission details (apologies for the length - all text fields were copied directly from submissions in no particular order) as well as the program matrix that I will populate with the community program selections (we are responsible for the green fields). In total, community will have 23 90-minute sessions (25 if we include the 2 community keynotes on Mon and Thurs) but we currently have 30 90 minute session proposals. Monday tutorials will include: Portals Grid Primer for Managers Tutorial Thursday tutorials will include: Building a Java Grid Service with Globus Toolkit v4 (I may need to check with them to see if this is do-able in the time available) OGSA-DAI. Please take a few moments to review the attachments prior to the call, paying attention to: *appropriateness for the community track (we decided at GGF14 that emphasis should be on applications and/or technologies), *ordering of the submissions. Thank you in advance for your participation! Julie +++++++++++++++++++ Julie Wulf-Knoerzer Manager of Community Development Global Grid Forum wulf(a)ggf.org ph. 630/252-7163 fax 630/252-4466

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GGF14 survey comments and GridWorld/GGF15
by Julie Wulf-Knoerzer 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Dear all, Below, you will find some community-oriented suggestions that I have extracted from the GGF14 attendee surveys. If possible, I would like you to take a look at the attendee feedback below and identify projects (and/or individuals) that we might solicit directly for the GGF15 Community Program. The complete CFP (along with online submission) can be found at http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_communityInvolvment_ggf15.htm. As you know, the deadline for the Community CFP is next week, 12-Aug. Please feel free to send your suggestions to me and I will send the CFP on behalf of the community council. Thanks, Julie +++++++++++++++++++++++ Please enter suggestions for research areas for the GridWorld/GGF-15 Enterprise and Community Programs? ·Nanotechnology ·Are there hardware requirements? ·Space/Astronomy/Planetary Science ·apps of grid technology ·Semantic Grid ·Real world examples of Grid adoption in enterprises, challenges & success stories, dos and donts for others who are considering grids ·Equipment Grid ·Community programs: Earth Science groups ·Grid security, UO- Management ·How to get up an Enterprise Grid (practically: what to install, what to tweak etc) ·Medical/ Health ·Automation of the grid-enabling process for applications. ·I am not sure what you mean by research areas. If you mean industries or professions, I would suggest: financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals. ·Applications ·Integration of Grid and AIM(?) Please enter any suggestions you have about helping GGF to engage new communities? ·Provide general grid background information on website ·Be more open and promote your openers ·Clear value proposition for engaging with GGF ·Joint sessions ·Try to co-locate important events of communities ·Tutorials on day before workshop ·Difficult. One advise: dont overpromise! What can GGF offer now? ·Road show showing GGF technology to users ·Webpage that provides lines to different area in vertical markets. ·Develop a marketing plan ·Re-design the website. People new to the site will not understand areas, Groups (working and research), communities, but navigating the site seems to be oriented around these entities. ·Success stories. Product showcase. ·More industry and commercial focus, perhaps with EGA ·Provide workshops for grid beginners. +++++++++++++++++++ Julie Wulf-Knoerzer Manager of Community Development Global Grid Forum wulf(a)ggf.org ph. 630/252-7163 fax 630/252-4466

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Re: GGF15 Workshop Proposal - Campus Grids
by Satoshi Matsuoka 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Laura, I am forwarding the proposal to the entire community council. Thanks. Satoshi On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:40:09 -0400 Laura F McGinnis <lfm(a)psc.edu> wrote: lfm> Dennis & Satoshi - lfm> lfm> I have attached a document to propose a workshop on Campus Grids at GGF15. lfm> I believe we have included all of the relvant details. If there is anything lfm> missing or unclear, please let me know. lfm> lfm> I hope you are the right people to be sending this to. If not, please lfm> forward appropriately and let me know who the correct contacts are. lfm> lfm> thx lfm> LM lfm> lfm> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ lfm> Laura F. McGinnis, Project Coordinator lfm> Data & Information Resource Services lfm> Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center email: lfm(a)psc.edu lfm> 4400 Fifth Avenue, # 409D voice: 412-268-5642 lfm> Pittsburgh, PA 15213 fax: lfm> 412-268-8200 lfm> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 東京工業大学　学術国際情報センター　教授　松岡聡〒152-8550 東京都目黒区大岡山 2-12-1 (西7号館2F) Tel/Fax 03-5734-3876 (西7号館2F206) 携帯090-5811-8746 (FOMA-TV電話可能) E-mail: matsu(a)is.titech.ac.jp 秘書：近藤 secretary(a)matsulab.is.titech.ac.jp

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GridWorld/GGF15 Tutorial status
by Julie Wulf-Knoerzer 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hi all, Just a quick status update on tutorials since last week's call: -Portals Tutorial (proposal received) -Grids for Managers (lessons learned from GGF14 document attached. I intend to encourage them to submit a proposal shortly.) -Globus 4.0 (I have contacted the Globus folks about their 'hands-on' tutorial - they are interested) -OGSA-DAI (I sent a note to Neil but have not heard back). Hopefully we will have all proposals for discussion on next week's call. -Julie +++++++++++++++++++ Julie Wulf-Knoerzer Manager of Community Development Global Grid Forum wulf(a)ggf.org ph. 630/252-7163 fax 630/252-4466

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GGF Talk (fwd)
by Dennis Gannon 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

hi all, sorry for the delay in getting back to you. i have been out of touch for the last few days. as i promised, i asked ian and andrew grimshaw when they would like to give talks. as it turns out andrew prefers boston and ian prefers athens. dennis ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:48:32 -0500 From: Ian Foster <foster(a)mcs.anl.gov> To: Dennis Gannon <gannon(a)cs.indiana.edu> Subject: GGF Talk Dennis: I think the Athens meeting will work better for me. Ian. _______________________________________________________________ Ian Foster www.mcs.anl.gov/~foster Math & Computer Science Div. Dept of Computer Science Argonne National Laboratory The University of Chicago Argonne, IL 60439, U.S.A. Chicago, IL 60637, U.S.A. Tel: 630 252 4619 Fax: 630 252 1997 Globus Alliance, www.globus.org

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