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Final list of Grids Mean Business speakers
by Dave Berry 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

Dear PC, Here is a report on the Grids Mean Business track. All slots for presentations are now full and I attach the final list of speakers. Chris Swan from Credit Suisse has agreed to give his talk as part of the Grid Markets session. To accommodate this, I have moved the NextGrid talk to the session on Collaborative Grids on the following day. Nick Selby of The 451 Group has agreed to lead the security panel. He may be open to suggestions for panel participants. Dave Pearson of Oracle and John Easton of IBM have agreed to chair sessions. If anyone else would like to chair a session please let me know. There are several other people who have requested slots but who I have not been able to accommodate into the programme. I apologise to all of you who I have disappointed in this way. I hope you find the final list of speakers to be interesting and informative. Full session descriptions will be available on the web soon. We are currently advertising the Grids Mean Business track by various routes. There is a special registration rate until the end of the month (i.e. for the next two days). Best wishes, Dave Berry Technology Lead, Grid Computing Now! National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street Edinburgh, EH8 9AA +44 131 651 4039

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Agenda for tonight's telcon
by Dave Berry 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Dear PC members, Here is a draft agenda for tonight's call: 1. Keynotes 2. Scheduling report 3. Grid Means Business 4. AOB Please let me know if there are other items that you wish to discuss. As background, I attach the list of workshops and a list of the speakers confirmed for the Grids Mean Business track. The call will be at 3pm PDT / 5pm CDT / 6pm EDT / 10pm GMT / 11pm CET / 7am JST / 8am Sydney. Call details are as before: USA: 1 866 838 0046 UK: 0845 245 0224 Australia: 1 800 109 603 International: +44 145 254 2309 Passcode: 275359 Dave Berry Deputy Director, Research & E-infrastructure Development National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street Edinburgh, EH8 9AA +44 131 651 4039

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Re: [ogf20pc] Agenda for tonight's telcon
by Dave Berry 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi Erwin, I believe that the repeated entry for the plenary is a mistake. There should still be a single plenary in the morning, starting at 8.30, as you describe. The plenary in the afternoon will be given by Mario Campolargo, Head of the Unit for GEANT and e-Infrastructure in the European Commission. This will be at 3.30 instead of 1.30, as Mario will be travelling from Lisbon in the morning on that day. Best wishes, Dave. _____ From: Erwin Laure [mailto:Erwin.Laure@cern.ch] Sent: 19 March 2007 13:28 To: Dave Berry; ogf20pc(a)ogf.org Subject: RE: [ogf20pc] Agenda for tonight's telcon Hi Dave, all, Sorry, I couldn't join you in the call last Wednesday, so please could you clarify what happened with the Wednesday plenaries? We had 1 1/2 hours plenaries from 8.30 to 10.00 in all the versions of the program that I've seen (last one before this was of March 7). Now, we seem to have 1 hour before the coffee and 1 1/2 hours after coffee, but the latter not a plenary but in parallel with other sessions. What's the reason for the change? Note the plenary program foresees a 45 mins keynote by OGF (Robert Fogel and Mark Linesch) and a 45 mins keynote by EGEE (Ian Bird). So we need the 1 1/2 hours "real" plenary in the morning. What is scheduled in the second slot? Cheers, -- Erwin _____ From: ogf20pc-bounces(a)ogf.org [mailto:ogf20pc-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of Karen Kus Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 12:09 AM To: David Berry; ogf20pc(a)ogf.org Subject: Re: [ogf20pc] Agenda for tonight's telcon Hello All, Attached above please find the current Matrix for the OGF 20/EGEE 2nd User Forum Event in Manchester. Karen Karen Kus Program Manager, Events Open Grid Forum 15700 103rd Street Suite 210 Lemont, IL 60439 Direct: 312/895-5932 Cell: 815/735-8634 kmkus(a)ogf.org

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Keynote speakers
by Dave Berry 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Dear PC members, I can now confirm that our two keynote speakers for OGF20 will be Tony Hey, VP of technical computing at Microsoft, and Peter Coveney, Professor of Physical Chemistry and Director of the Centre for Computational Science at University College London. Best wishes, Dave Berry Deputy Director, Research & E-infrastructure Development National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street Edinburgh, EH8 9AA +44 131 651 4039

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Public outreach of e-Science
by David Wallom 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Hello All, Bearing in mind dropping participation in Computer Science as well as other maths and science subjects within schools and universities that appear to be a nearly global problem as well as public uncertainty with various scientific areas, I am convinced that we all need to work much harder at the problem of Public Engagement in Science. I would like to have a session at OGF 20 that has two lines of discussion. Firstly with a collection of world leading science projects that have had a public engagement component we should be ensuring that lessons are being learned from their point of view. The second component is from the professionals in Science communication to ensure that their experiences are fed back into the research communities. I would also like to think about in future having as part of the community track a program open to members of the general public, including local young people with a plenary, workshop and possible participatory session? I think that, apart from standards, a great service that OGF could do for research since it should be attracting both the CS base but also novel interdisciplinary research projects into the community sessions that can really provoke public interest. So please could all members of the PC please either contact directly, or pass their contact details onto me, those people either within their own communities who are very active in this area or funding agencies that make a PES component part of any grant etc (I have heard that NSF cam be like this?). That way we can have a healthy participation in this session and try to build something in future meetings. I have heard from dave Berry about a project called EPIC so if I could get further details on this it would be very much appeciated. Regards David -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. David Wallom Technical Manager Oxford e-Research Centre University of Oxford 7 Keble Road Oxford OX1 3QG Tel : +44 (0)1865 610601 email: david.wallom(a)oerc.ox.ac.uk +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------ Forwarded Message From: David Wallom <david.wallom(a)oerc.ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:19:37 +0000 To: Myles Allen <allen(a)atm.ox.ac.uk>, Simon Cox <s.j.cox(a)soton.ac.uk>, Morgane Artacho <martacho(a)nesc.ac.uk>, <j.redfearn(a)jisc.ac.uk>, <coleman(a)nesc.ac.uk> Conversation: Public outreach of e-Science Subject: FW: Public outreach of e-Science Hello All, As below I have been asked by Dave Berry to consider facilitating setup of a session on ³Public Outreach within e-Science². As some of you are actively engaged in such an activity, whilst others have used public outreach very successfully it was thought that this could be a very good group to get together and knock out the possible bare bones of a session. Dave B had some ideas below and I would be very interested in looking at methods for public engagement and measuring their success. This could also involve the members of HAS-RG to actually do some research whilst participating in our session. Please come back with your thoughts. Regards David -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. David Wallom Technical Manager Oxford e-Research Centre University of Oxford 7 Keble Road Oxford OX1 3QG Tel : +44 (0)1865 610601 email: david.wallom(a)oerc.ox.ac.uk +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------ Forwarded Message From: Dave Berry <daveb(a)nesc.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:59:43 -0000 To: David Wallom <david.wallom(a)oerc.ox.ac.uk> Cc: Morgane Artacho <martacho(a)nesc.ac.uk> Conversation: Public outreach of e-Science Subject: RE: Public outreach of e-Science Hi David, This session would be in the morning on Tuesday May 8th. I'd like to introduce Morgane Artacho, who is project officer for the ICEAGE project. As outreach is also part of the responsibility of the NeSC training team, Morgane may be able to contribute to this session. In discussion today several names were mentioned. We could also involve Iain Coleman, who is our science writer, and Judy Redfearn, who is the science writer for JISC & EPSRC. Malcolm is interested, if his schedule doesn't clash. Malcolm mentioned a USA project called EPIC which is about taking e-science into schools. I agree that the outcomes are important to establish. I was thinking of the session as a sharing of experiences and "best practice" in (i) how to explain the science in a way that attracts and engages people without overhyping it (because obviously we don't do hype in the grid world), (ii) how to engage the media in this (e.g. CP.net's experiences) and (iii) how to include schools in that outreach. Those aren't outcomes, so we need to decide whether we want a report, an ongoing activity, or something else. Either way, we need someone who would actually want to do this. We also need someone who will lead the session. I should perhaps make clear at this point that I'm only proposing this in my role as PC chair. I'm not planning to lead the activity. Best wishes, Dave. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Wallom [mailto:david.wallom@oerc.ox.ac.uk] > Sent: 10 March 2007 08:36 > To: Dave Berry > Subject: Re: Public outreach of e-Science > > Hi Dave, > > What day and session would be involved? I have had back from CP.net that they > actually have a public understanding person employed on the project who > happens to actually be based in Manchester.... So we only need to know time > and place and we¹re sorted with them. > > I want to lock down what outcome we want rfom the meeting to make sure we get > GEODISE (Simon C) on beard. > > David > > > On 8/3/07 12:23, "Dave Berry" <daveb(a)nesc.ac.uk> wrote: > > >> Hi David, >> >> Have you had any response from the ClimatePrediction.net and GENIE folks >> about a possible session on e-science and the public? >> >> BTW, the e-Science keynote is still up in the air. I'm chasing a couple of >> possible speakers who are more closely linked with OGF. >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Dave Berry >> Deputy Director, Research & E-infrastructure Development >> National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street >> Edinburgh, EH8 9AA +44 131 651 4039 >> >> > > > -- > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Dr. David Wallom > Technical Manager > Oxford e-Research Centre > University of Oxford > 7 Keble Road > Oxford > OX1 3QG > > Tel : +44 (0)1865 610601 > email: david.wallom(a)oerc.ox.ac.uk > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------ End of Forwarded Message ------ End of Forwarded Message

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Early registration deadline - speakers must register too
by Dave Berry 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Dear PC members, The early rates for OGF20/EGEE UF registration finish this Thursday. Please note that speakers (and session chairs) are not exempt from the registration fees. There are special rates for people who attend for just the Enterprise sessions (including Grids Mean Business) or for people coming for a single day. I append the official reminder from the OGF office. Dave Berry Deputy Director, Research & E-infrastructure Development National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street Edinburgh, EH8 9AA +44 131 651 4039 -------- Please register for OGF20/EGEE User Forum by this Thursday (March 15) in order save up to $200: http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php Also remember to book your lodging early to secure our negotiated rates: http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_lodging_ogf20.php. About OGF21/EGEE User Forum OGF20/EGEE User Forum is the premier grid technologies event of 2007 where the global Grid community will gather to develop Grid standards, showcase applications, discuss large-scale grid infrastructure techniques, workshop best practices and present case studies and solutions. The program will include: * Keynote and Plenary Presentations by Leading Grid Luminaries * Standards Group Sessions and BoFs * Enterprise Program Featuring Requirements Alignment, Best Practices, Adoptions Sessions and 'Grids Means Business' Industry Track * e-Science Program Featuring Technology Updates and Workshops * Vendor and Grid Project/Organization Showcase and EGEE Demonstration/Poster Session Area * Networking and Social Activities with OGF and EGEE members Additional program information is available at http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_program_ogf20.php OGF21/EGEE User Forum Sponsors Premier: * UK eScience * Microsoft * HP * Grid Computing Now! Standard: * BREIN * CoreGRID * BalticGrid * Fraunhofer * Interactive European Grid Project * GridPP Partner: * University of Manchester * NCeSS * National e-Science Centre

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PC telcon, Tuesday March 13th
by Dave Berry 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Dear PC, I have arranged a further PC telcon for next Tuesday, at 3pm PDT / 5pm CDT / 6pm EDT / 10pm GMT / 11pm CET / 7am JST / 8am Sydney. (Note that the USA will switch to Daylight Saving Time this weekend). Call details are as before: USA: 1 866 838 0046 UK: 0845 245 0224 Australia: 1 800 109 603 International: +44 145 254 2309 Passcode: 275359 Talk to you then, Dave Berry Deputy Director, Research & E-infrastructure Development National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street Edinburgh, EH8 9AA +44 131 651 4039

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Revised workshop allocation
by Dave Berry 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

Dear PC, Following yesterday's call I have revised the allocation of workshops to sessions. Please take a look at this and let me know immediately if you see any problems. We need to confirm dates a.s.a.p. The changes are as follows: - The SOKU workshop is moved from Monday to Tuesday as requested. This also helps to support the Enterprise sessions. - The Dynamic SLAs workshop is swapped with the e-Humanities workshop so that there is more e-Science content on Tuesday. - The "GIN meets standards" session is removed (as requested) and replaced with OMII-Europe. - The e-Science session on Tuesday morning is provisionally assigned to a panel on public awareness of e-science. - I moved the EGR WG session to Wednesday evening to avoid clashing with the other requirements sessions. - We can offer the astronomers an extra session on Wednesday evening. The Monday community sessions are therefore reduced in number - most likely these will be taken by group sessions to replace the ones lost on Tuesday. Dave Berry Deputy Director, Research & E-infrastructure Development National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street Edinburgh, EH8 9AA +44 131 651 4039

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Re: [ogf20pc] EU presentations at OGF20/EGEE User forum
by Dave Berry 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Dear Bob, Thank you for this message. I have already been contacted by the Unit for Software & Service Architectures and Infrastructures and I am looking to give them a slot on the Wednesday. For the Tuesday keynotes we are looking for users to talk about their experiences in industry and e-Science rather than higher level talks such as these. The OGF20 programme is rather full and I don't have space for another EC keynote. Given that EGEE has a large infrastructure element, perhaps the speaker from the Unit for GEANT and eInfrastructures would be more suited to a slot on Thursday? There will still be OGF20 delegates around on that day so the message will still reach them. Best wishes, Dave. _____ From: ogf20pc-bounces(a)ogf.org [mailto:ogf20pc-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of Bob Jones Sent: 22 February 2007 09:30 To: ogf20pc(a)ogf.org Subject: [ogf20pc] EU presentations at OGF20/EGEE User forum Hi Dave et al., I have been contacted by the European Commission about their representation at the OGF20/EGEE User forum event. They suggested Jesus Villasante (Head of Unit for Software & Service Architectures and Infrastructures) as a keynote on Monday or Tuesday and Mario Campolargo (Head of Unit for GEANT and eInfrastructures) on Wednesday. For an overview of their positions in the Commission see here: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/information_society/directory/index_en.htm Cheers, Bob. Bob Jones EGEE-II Project Director www.eu-egee.org CERN tel: +41 76 487 4901

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Re: [ogf20pc] Agenda for tomorrow's telcon
by Dave Berry 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Hi Erwin, We got rid of the "Users Meet Standards" session. I thought you still wanted a "GIN meets standards" session, but we can drop that too. Do you have another session that would bring together EGEE & OGF people that could use this slot? Dave. > -----Original Message----- > From: Erwin Laure [mailto:Erwin.Laure@cern.ch] > Sent: 06 March 2007 11:19 > To: Dave Berry > Cc: ogf20pc(a)ogf.org > Subject: Re: [ogf20pc] Agenda for tomorrow's telcon > > Hi Dave, > > Your schedule has still the "GIN meets standards" session in on > Wednesday. I thought we had removed this? > > Cheers, > > -- Erwin > > Dave Berry wrote: > > Dear PC, > > > > We will have a conference call tomorrow (March 6th) at 8am > PST / 10am > > CST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET / 1am JST / 2am Sydney. > The aim of > > this call is to review the whole programme. I propose the > following agenda: > > > > 1. Keynotes > > 2. Workshop scheduling > > 3. Use of "spare" sessions > > 4. Grid Means Business > > 5. Other enterprise sessions > > 6. AOB > > > > Please let me know if you have other issues you which to raise. > > > > I attach a revised version of the matrix. The main change > is to extend > > the Community Grids workshop to five sessions. > > > > Best wishes, > > > > Dave Berry > > Deputy Director, Research & E-infrastructure Development > > National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street > > Edinburgh, EH8 9AA +44 131 651 4039 > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ogf20pc mailing list > > ogf20pc(a)ogf.org > > http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf20pc >

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