Notes from European E-infrastructure Forum, Barcelona, 21st September Attendance: Patrick Aerts (PRACE) Hans Döbbeling (GEANT) Thomas Eickermann (PRACE) Licia Florio (Terena – replacing Karel Vietsch) Kostas Glinos (EC) – part-time Stefan Heinzel (DEISA) Richard Hughes-Jones (GEANT) Bob Jones (EGEE) Jürgen Knobloch (EGI) Hermann Lederer (DEISA) Ludek Matyska (EGI_DS) Steven Newhouse (EGEE/EGI.eu) Agenda: http://indico.cern.ch/sessionDisplay.py?sessionId=11&slotId=0&confId=55893#2009-09-21 The order of the agenda was changed to take into account the unannounced presence of Kostas Glinos How to publicise the work of EEF? The discussion focused around the relationship between EEF and eIRG. EEF could provide input to eIRG in line with the recommendations made in the recent eIRG whitepaper which are consistent with the mission of EEF. The relationship of EEF to the various eIRG and ESFRI working groups was also discussed. Kostas stated that some reorganisation is being considered to facilitate better interaction between eIRG & ESFRI. The agreed action was to make eIRG and ESFRI aware of the existence of EEF and that we are willing to interact with them. What could be EEF’s input to the concertation meeting? Bob has been asked to give a summary of the conclusions of EGEE’09 and it was agreed that he would include material on EEF its mission. Kostas stated that he would like EEF to provide some input on the proposed governance models for e-Infrastructures. The people present felt it was an important question but EEF has not yet discussed the question in detail. There is not enough time at EGEE09 to be able to discuss this point so another telephone meeting, ahead of the EC concertation event will be organised. EEF membership – request of NDGF and SEEGRID to become members Patrick said that EEF should first have an agreed scope and defined work programme before addressing the question of new members. While EEF wants to be open and inclusive, the number of regional/national grid projects could be overwhelming. Taking into account the transition to EGI, EEF felt it was more important to reinforce EGI’s role as Europe grid infrastructure coordinator and ask national and regional grids to channel their input via EGI. Kostas Glinos added that EEF should consider the inclusion of data repository/access projects as a useful complement to its current membership and suggested the OpenAIRE project which will be starting shortly. Kostas Glinos left the room at this point. Future EEF meetings and common events We will have a telephone meeting before the EC concertation event in Brussels on 12-13 October. We could also organise an EEF meeting during the EC concertation event. Following that, we will organise another EEF meeting in conjunction with other e-infrastructure events (candidates are the DEISA/PRACE symposium and GEANT will also be organising an event). Note that if EEF is going to actually produce some added value then there will need to be more detailed work between these meetings. What could be EEF’s input to the EC/NSF session at this event? In the remaining 5 minutes we confirmed the key points we would like to transmit during the EC/NSF session: - Joint EC-NSF support for global virtual research communities