NA Meeting

Thursday 13 Nov 2003, 11:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

513/1-027 (CERN)

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11:00 → 11:15 NA1

- Review the management structure, plans for staffing the Project Office. Gender action plan, relations to NA2 dissemination activities, relations to training NA3, relations to NA4 meeting with HEP applications, general applications and other projects support (NA5), relations to eInfrastructure EU reflection group.

Speaker: Fabrizio Gagliardi

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11:05 → 11:20 NA2

- Fix the locations and dates of the 4 major EGEE events during the project (first is already done: Ireland April 16-24 2004). Other possibilities: to follow the EU presidency (Ireland and the Netherlands in 2004, Luxembourg and United Kingdom in 2005, Austria and Finland in 2006), to have a more geographically even distributed calendar; discuss other items such as delegate fees extended to cover invited speakers and EAB; participation of other projects; co-hosting of EAB, industry forum, eInfrastructure reflection group etc. - Terena: prepare draft of project information presentation (DNA2.1, PM1) - Terena: prepare draft of external customer facing website, mailing lists and web based tools (DNA2.2.1, PM1). Which email lists and what tools are implied here? - Identify dissemination contact for each federation. Is South-East Europe not involved? - CERN: prepare draft of internal website (released in test version) - Organise review of internal and external websites during December so the feedback can be taken into account before the project starts.

Speaker: John Dyer & LiciaFlorio

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11:10 → 11:25 NA3

- What is the status of the North Europe federation networking group described in 5.A.3.2 (page 77)? - Fix dates and locations for training courses in the first 3 months. - Discuss with other activity heads the nature and scheduling of activity technical retreats (5.A.3.1.2, page 74). - Identify training contact for each federation. Is South-East Europe not involved? - Planning points already started (Malcolm): - Inventory of existing training material available (EDG tutorial experience and material take over) - Suggestion to have joint meeting with UK e-Science All Hands Meeting in 2005 - How to collaborate with other EU projects for training. Initial contacts already made with Diligent and See-grid who would like to host training events (Bob).

Speaker: Malcolm Atkinson

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11:15 → 11:30 NA4

- Identify individuals that will be involved in HEP part of the work and leadership. - How and when will we identify the small set of bio-medical applications that will be deployed at the start of the project? - Identify requirements sources that may be used to define the needs of the applications (MNA4.1, PM1) - Expand on work of EDG to investigate work of GridLab on GAT common application layer and compare to other work (e.g. ARDA, ESA, etc.) - Clarify organization and funding of Industry Forum - note it is referred to in the TA but never described - Meeting structure: steering group, extended meeting with the PEB members, role of LHC computing coordinators - General application workshop and relation to NA5 support to other projects.

Speaker: Guy Wormser & Roberto Barbera

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11:20 → 11:35 NA5

- Form policy working group and identify leadership for eInfrastructure EU reflection group. - Use working group to prepare a draft white paper on resource allocation policy during November in preparation for the eInfrastructure meeting in Rome on Dec 9th. Review status. - Create inventory of other projects that wish to cooperate with EGEE and clarify the status and level of engagement and relations to NA4.

Speaker: Fabrizio Gagliardi