Introduction Room: 600/R-002 - Goals of the meeting - Round table introduction of participants

Status of March proposal submissions Room: 600/R-002 - Brief overview of each relevant proposal submitted (abstract) - Timelines for successful March project proposals start- up and relevance for EGI

Timelines for Autumn proposals Room: 600/R-002 - Latest information about the Autumn’09 relevant EC calls

Presentation on EGI model for interaction with other regions.

• Juergen Knobloch

Room: 600/R-002 - Model as defined in EGI blueprint and draft D3.2 document (attached) - Timelines for the publication of the D5.5 transition document - Discussion

Lunch break Room: 600/R-002 - Self service cafeteria (Restaurant 2) next to IT building in CERN

EGEE lessons learnt on regional interactions

• Maite Barroso-Lopez

Room: 600/R-002 - Not a presentation of EGEE but rather how EGEE interacts with other regions and what lessons have been learnt

Chain proposal discussion

• Federico Ruggeri

Room: 600/R-002 - Overview of the latest version of the CHAIN document

Discussion Room: 600/R-002 Here are some provocative questions that are seen as relevant for EGI to drive the discussion (please suggest additional questions): - Is the ROC model the appropriate one? This is a very European view, what steps will be taken to include partners from other regions?- Assuming that the ROC model is the right way to go; Why are all ROCs led by European partners? Should these ROCs be hosted in Europe or in the other regions? - Is the level of interaction and scale of deployment equal in each region? - Are the active user communities in each region similar or completely different? - What changes are needed in the CHAIN vision or implementation model? - What is the overlap between March’09 proposals and CHAIN? Key questions for current projects – Are the issues encountered in each region the same? - Kind of issues encountered - User Communities support - Level of interaction/deployment - Current status of interoperability - Collaboration with CIS region: Will this be included? Existing collaboration with CIS countries: Armenia (EGEE, SEE-GRID-SCI), Azerbaijan, Belarus (BalticGrid-II), Georgia (SEE-GRID-SCI), Kazakhstan (EGEE), Kyrgyzstan (?), Moldova (SEE-GRID-SCI), Russia (EGEE), Tajikistan (?), Ukraine (EGEE), Uzbekistan (EGEE)

Conclusions and round-up Room: 600/R-002 - Actions and Decisions - Next steps - CHAIN document update - Agreement on regions and partners (political issues) - Points for EGI to include in D 5.5

End of the meeting Room: 600/R-002