Dave, I've been speaking to William Fellows and exchanged emails with Dave Wallom and I would like to target a session on Software Licensing for the industry track at OGF 20. It's a topic which is gaining momentum in the marketplace as end users begin to adopt virtualisation more aggressively, and with the emergence of multi-core and server (Hardware) virtualisation capabilities, the problems that grid has always had look to be multiplying along several dimensions. The basic plan would be to offer a view of user requirements for licensing models and encourage an industry response. Its early days, but I have started a work stream aimed at this, targeting OGF20 for a roundtable, possibly covered by a media partner. Be interested to get feedback from the program committee on this idea too! Ian Ian Osborne Project Director, Intellect Grid Computing Now! Knowledge Transfer Network www.gridcomputingnow.org <http://www.gridcomputingnow.org/> M: +44 (0) 7793 258219 T: +44 (0) 20 7331 2054 ian.osborne@intellectuk.org <mailto:ian.osborne@intellectuk.org> www.intellectuk.org <http://www.intellectuk.org/> ________________________________ From: ogf20pc-bounces@ogf.org [mailto:ogf20pc-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of Dave Berry Sent: 14 November 2006 18:20 To: Brooklin Gore; bcohen@bway.net Cc: ogf20pc@ogf.org Subject: Re: [ogf20pc] Draft outline for industry track I agree with Bob's explanation here. I see these as two related tracks. The program I mailed out is aimed at new users and would be one track. Bob's requirements workshop would run alongside and be aimed at established users. We have just moved the industry track to Tuesday & Wednesday (because Monday will be a public holiday in the UK). We could probably schedule the requirements workshops on either day - I'll talk offline with Bob about this. Are there other industry & enterprise sessions that we want to schedule (or indeed issue a call for)? Best wishes, Dave. ________________________________ From: Brooklin Gore [mailto:bgore@micron.com] Sent: 14 November 2006 17:48 To: bcohen@bway.net Cc: Dave Berry; ogf20pc@ogf.org Subject: Re: [ogf20pc] Draft outline for industry track Ok, that is helpful. Also helpful to hear from John Brooke that there is a good concentration of pharma startups in the Manchester area that should be easy to attract to the show. Thanks all, ~Brooklin ________________________________ From: Robert Cohen <bcohen@bway.net> Reply-To: <bcohen@bway.net> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:33:47 -0500 To: Brooklin Gore <bgore@micron.com> Cc: Dave Berry <daveb@nesc.ac.uk>, <ogf20pc@ogf.org> Subject: Re: [ogf20pc] Draft outline for industry track Hi Brooklin, I am not sure that you are aware of what the Industry Group was trying to do in Washington at GGF18, but we had two sessions with industry people with extensive experience using Grids. The idea is to get industry oriented users to pinpoint issues they face in using Grids (issues that will probably prove to be similar to what other firms in that industry will face). These issues are to feed into an exercise that is part of promoting greater collaboration between the standards side of OGF and the Enterprise/Science side. Issues from the user side can identify areas where advances in standards would be most helpful to users in industry and science. In the Washington sessions, there was certainly evidence from users that Grids were adding value and could be used at a wide range of firms in the sectors that were part of the discussion. There were also a number of attendees that were relatively new users of Grids. In previous discussions of the OGF20PC, there was no attempt to have the industry sessions be the only sessions available for users to attend. But the idea was to continue the process that was begun in Washington. If many people feel that is not a productive way to move ahead, the entire process should be canned. Bob Cohen Brooklin Gore wrote: Re: [ogf20pc] Draft outline for industry track I'm still a little confused with the concept on industry tracks like auto and pharma, etc. I wonder how many businesses 'new' to the grid would be attracted by these sessions. Certainly one or two companies from this segment doing a case study on why the grid is good for their business (with elements that could be applied to other companies not yet doing grid) would be great, I just don't understand the value of branding along an industry segment. I think every presentation should make attendees not using grid yet 1) want to come and 2) walk away beleiving 1) this stuff is really adding business value 2) we can use this stuff. ~Brooklin ________________________________ From: Robert Cohen <bcohen@bway.net> <mailto:bcohen@bway.net> <mailto:bcohen@bway.net> Reply-To: <bcohen@bway.net> <mailto:bcohen@bway.net> <mailto:bcohen@bway.net> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:08:00 -0500 To: Dave Berry <daveb@nesc.ac.uk> <mailto:daveb@nesc.ac.uk> <mailto:daveb@nesc.ac.uk> , <ogf20pc@ogf.org> <mailto:ogf20pc@ogf.org> <mailto:ogf20pc@ogf.org> Subject: Re: [ogf20pc] Draft outline for industry track Dave, This looks ok, but it does leave out the main sessions for the industry track that we had discussed that would be parallel sessions on Tuesday. These would include the sessions from the draft "Straw man OGF20 industry": Also on Tuesday: Enterprise Requirements workshops These are scheduled to run at the same time as the "Issues in Grids" sessions. We can take advantage of the people attending these workshops to give presentations in other sessions, e.g. in the Collaborative Grids session. 11:00-12:30: Auto & Aerospace industry requirements 16:00-17:30: Pharma industry requirements 18:00-19:30 Requirements roll-up meeting It would be useful to have the Collaboration Grids session after the Auto and Aerospace industry requirements meeting so that people from the requirements session could present there. Bob Cohen Dave Berry wrote: Dear PC, At the last meeting of industry sub-committee I took a task to prepare an outline of the industry track, as we understand it so far, that people could give to potential participants. I have now done this and attach the result. 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