Hi Andrew, sorry for the delayed response... for anyone wondering what this is about, we're proposing to do a public webcast about OGSA, in the April timeframe, and will have more details once the logistics have firmed up a little more. HP will host. I've been working on the slides as a background activity, so please assume I have the pen at the moment. I agree that they need augmenting for this. I think we can set our own expectations for the audience - we can say who it's for when we advertise it. As a starting point I assume we want to pitch it in the middle - some background, but also some specifics on the capabilities and where things fit. Thoughts for an outline; some of this is already in place, of course: * Background to grid and GGF, including some history & definitions * Where grid is being used now, importance in the commercial world, and the future * Transition to SOA & Web services - why, and what it means * Standards - why they're important, a review of relevant standards and SDOs, including latest news * Some specifics about OGSA: background, some info from the Roadmap, and an explanation of profiles * Details of the OGSA capabilities and closely-related work - an intro diagram and a few slides on each - high-level intro, some detailed examples, status of work - we need to agree how technical we want to get, and try to keep all at the same level. e.g.: * Infrastructure * Security * EMS * Data * Resource Mgmt * Info * CDDLM * Self mgmt * WS-Agreement * Naming * Any others? BUT: we will have to be conscious of time: I've already listed too much if capabilities average more than 3 minutes. So this is probably overly ambitious. Although we talked earlier about a 2-hour slot, I now know it's actually 90 minutes. [We'll have 30 minutes before the start for the presenters to get online and do logistics.] So the target for the presentation should be one hour, with the remainder for Q&A. Some time will be spent on preliminaries, so Q&A will probably be down to 20 mins. We probably won't have time to do audience polls, other than maybe one at the end while Q&A is in progress. Here are a few other things we'll need to provide ahead of time: * Title of presentation (e.g. "Defining the Grid: An Overview of OGSA") * Short abstract of session * Names of speaker(s) * Duration: Target one hour for presentation, 30 minutes for Q&A * Short bios for the speaker(s) -- two or three sentences each - Jem ________________________________ Jem Treadwell Hewlett-Packard Company 6000 Irwin Road Mount Laurel, NJ 08054 Phone: 856-638-6021 Fax: 856-638-6190 E-mail: Jem.Treadwell@hp.com <mailto:Jem.Treadwell@hp.com> ________________________________ From: owner-ogsa-wg@ggf.org [mailto:owner-ogsa-wg@ggf.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Grimshaw Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 10:22 AM To: 'ogsa-wg' Subject: [ogsa-wg] Webcast thoughts All, I'd like to start an email discussion in advance of the F2F on the webcast content. While we do have an initial set of slides - I think we need to make sure that we design the talk for our expected audience - rather than based on the material we already have in the deck. When Dave I went to MS our slide deck was not technical enough - we had the wrong talk with us, and so had to improvise. So, one of the things I'd like to know is: Who is our expected audience? Is it technical people, if so, are they web services aware?, are they applications developers? Or are they mostly managers and planners. Or do we have to try and make everyone happy. Any insight? A Andrew Grimshaw Professor of Computer Science University of Virginia 434-982-2204 grimshaw@cs.virginia.edu