EGEE 3rd parties advanced training course

20-21 January, 2005

Athens

 

Main action points and decisions

http://agenda.cern.ch/fullAgenda.php?ida=a05439

 

Decisions:

  1. 3 teams will be formed for the better coordination of EGEE 3rd parties
    1. Management Board (Διοικούσα Επιτροπή)
    2. Technical Board (Τεχνική Επιτροπή)
    3. Quality Control Board

The first two will be populated by the corresponding Hellasgrid groups (Task Force and Scientific Committee) with at least one representative per third party and the 3rd will be a small group of up to 5-6 experts with at least half of them being external to the project.

AP1: Please provide names for the 3 boards (a, b, c).

  1. A proposal will be considered for further funding from the Greek Government (ΕΚΤ-ΕΤΠΑ)

AP2: GRNET with the support of the other partners should investigate

  1. Travel budget is not covered in the 3rd parties contracts. Any trips for EGEE purposes have to be approved centrally by GRNET.

AP3: Please contact Athina Sakka sakka@admin.grnet.gr 2107474254, 6977606624 for any previous arrangements.

  1. All Third parties contracts have to be concluded asap. Signatures and stamps should be placed in the corresponding pages, while signature (μονογραφή) in all pages. For the parties that won’t be signing contracts (under GRNET) the technical part should be agreed upon.

AP4: All parties to finalize contractual obligations (e.g. sign contracts and agree technical work)

  1. A notebook excel sheets will be created with 3rd parties contact information.

AP5: Please send all notebook excel sheets to Athina Sakka sakka@admin.grnet.gr 2107474254, 6977606624.

  1. The ~1,2M€ tender for the 2nd phase Hellasgrid infrastructure will go public early March.

AP6: All, please send comments to Christos Aposkitis, apochr@grnet.gr regarding the Hellasgrid phase 2 equipment tender

  1. Letters will be send to all rectors or research institute directors that will be hosting the 6 Hellasgrid clusters, copying the corresponding EGEE 3rd party member in the Management board.

AP7: GRNET, should prepare the SLAs and send them to the clusters hosts (rectors or directors).

  1. All presentations should be uploaded in http://agenda.cern.ch/fullAgenda.php?ida=a05439

AP8: All to send their EGEE training presentations to Athina Sakka, in order to be uploaded in the agenda CERN pages.

  1. An applications proposal will be launched by GSRT soon. Potential candidates should start preparing their proposals.

AP9: All to prepare for the next GSRT call for Grid applications

  1. Participation to the 3rd EGEE conference is encouraged. Nevertheless it is not straightforward where the registration fee will come from, as probably EGEE GRNET budget is not sufficient.

AP10: GRNET, to investigate on funding for the 3rd EGEE conference.

  1. All third parties should provide timesheets every month. For this the registration procedure in the EGEE databases is needed.

AP11: GRNET, to scan registration - account forms and distribute to the list.

AP12: All parties to register for EGEE accounts for the PPT tool (according to the Annex II of the third parties contracts)

http://egee-intranet.web.cern.ch/egee-intranet/documentation-support/Registration/Regis-procedure.html  

  1. Push for participation in evaluation teams.