UIG Face to Face

30 Nov 2006, 01:30 → 1 Dec 2006, 12:00 Europe/Zurich

UK e-Science Centre

Brendan Hamill (NeSc)

This meeting of the UIG has two main objectives a) To review the first prototype material prior to release before Christmas b) To define workplan after Xmas for more advanced user scenarios

Thursday 30 November

10:30 → 12:30 Overview of mandate and operational process for UIG

It is important we agree the total process for the work
of the UIG starting from the initial definition of the
material and including validation, presentation, storage
and review

10:30 Review of UIG mandate and discussion of the future operational processes (and manpower) for UIG

The objective of this introductory session will be: (i) To review the original mandate for the group and identify any areas in which we have diverged from this. (ii) To discuss the proposals put forward by members of the group for re-organisation of the UIG operations and development of sustainable processes for creating and maintaining UIG resources. (iii) To evaluate manpower requirements for these processes, identify any shortfalls, and discuss possible solutions to these.

Speaker: Dr Brendan Hamill (UK e-Science,Edinburgh)

12:30 → 14:00 LUNCH

Lunch in the Chapterhouse

14:00 → 15:30 Detailed walkthrough of work done so far for beginner user scenarios

Material exists for an agreed set of beginner user
scenarios ranging from getting a certificate to first work
with job submission, data management and job
monitoring. Detailed work has also been accomplished
on formatting this material for presentation to users.

This work will be presented and discussed, and we will
evaluate its suitability for release.

14:00 Progress on beginner user scenarios

Review and discussion of the "beginner" user scenarios produced to date.

Speaker: Cal Loomis (Laboratoire de l''Accelerateur Lineaire (LAL) (IN2P3) (LAL))

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 17:30 Discussion on UIG webpages

An open discussion of alternative modes of creating and
maintaining the UIG web-pages

Friday 1 December

09:00 → 10:15 Detailed planning wind-up session

We will summarise
a) the planning for the release of the first prototype

b) the detailed planning for succeeding work involving
the whole UIG process as summarised by Brendan on
the 1st day(this planning including personpower)

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee

10:45 → 12:00 Wind-up session

Concluding remarks and observations on the way
forward for UIG.