RedIRIS PR activities Cristina Lorenzo – RedIRIS Zagreb. February 20th & 21st, 2008

2 Affiliated institutions Regulators Functions of RedIRIS PR (I) Who: Universities, public R+D centres, some Ministerial Departments, others. Why: They are the final users of the service. They can also collaborate with the NREN to promote certain services among end users, or they can become partners in projects. RedIRIS PR establishes relations with: Who: Ministry for Education and Science, other Ministerial Departments, Parliament, EU. Why: They set the NREN strategy, provide funding, approve research projects. They can take decisions on RedIRIS’ management. Academic networks Who: Regional, European or Pan-European Research and Education Networks. Why: Their performance affect significantly the final quality of the service. Many areas for cooperation.

3 Mass media Society Who: End Users, society in general. Why: Final beneficiaries of the service (public service). Improvement of facilities for R+D in Spain. Who: Section “science” of mainstream mass media; specialized publications. Why: They collaborate to disseminate RedIRIS´ activity and projects. RedIRIS PR establishes relations with: Functions of RedIRIS PR (II) Suppliers Who: Telcos, ISPs, sellers of routers and IT equipment, providers of housing and services, event organizers. Why: They have a big impact in the final quality and cost of the service. They are potential project partners, or sponsors

4  PR activity: aimed at bringing RedIRIS closer to its more than 300 affiliated institutions (universities, research institutes, libraries, R+D departments of hospitals, government departments and others), with more than 2 million potential users  PR gathers information about user requirements  RedIRIS “user” = affiliated institution, with whom RedIRIS collaborates to reach “end users”  PR disseminates RedIRIS´ services and promote their usage  PR promotes the development of a “RedIRIS Community”  RedIRIS shares with its affiliated institutions the know-how acquired through participation in projects and international fora.  PR fosters collaboration between RedIRIS and its affiliated institutions, and among those institutions with each other Affiliated institutions: Functions of RedIRIS PR (III)

5  To fulfil those goals, RedIRIS PR:  Organizes events (in collaboration with affiliated institutions)  Technical Workshop (yearly, for the last 18 years) - 3 days, 500 attendees  Working groups (two per year)- 2 days - meetings for specific areas (networking, middleware, security, multimedia, collaborative tools, grid)  Security meetings (once a year since 2003)  Specific meetings of 1 or 2 days depending on specific issues (security, IPv6, video conferencing, etc.), training events (GRID), CISCO CRS-1 event  2008: RedIRIS 20th Anniversary – 2009: TNC at Málaga  Publishes 4 magazines a year (81 issues so far)  Manages distribution lists to discuss topics of common interest, administered by RedIRIS staff (especially NOC and CERTs)  Prepares promotional material and produces press releases  Maintains general areas of RedIRIS website  PR coordinates the management of RedIRIS' new affiliations Functions of RedIRIS PR (IV) Affiliated institutions

6  RedIRIS organizes twice a year meetings with Spanish Regional Research and Education Networks  Information is shared, increased coordination is sought (in particular, regarding provision of services)  RedIRIS participates in fora where it cooperates with European Research and Education Networks – in particular, though TERENA  RedIRIS is currently represented in TEC and TTC, it’s chairing two TF (TF-EMC2 and TF-LCPM), it’s chairing the TNC 2008 WG and participating at the TERENA Compendium WG, as well as in all TERENA TFs (including TF-PR)  TF-PR: exchange experiences and share information on issues related to the dissemination of NRENs activities, carry out joint projects Functions of RedIRIS PR (V) Relationships with Research and Education Networks

7 Dissemination of Projects  RedIRIS is currently participating in 3 EU-funded projects.  RedIRIS PR collaborates in the dissemination of these projects:  GN2 project – Pan-European Research and Academic Network (GN2-PR)  EGEE-II – European Research Grid Infrastructure (NA2 activity – dissemination and outreach)  FEDERICA- European Experimental Network (NA2 activity: user communities & NA4 activity: dissemination and training)  Collaboration in the dissemination of other EU-funded projects (MUPBED, EELA, EUMEDGRID, ALICE, EUMEDCONNECT – all of them ended recently), and national projects (OSIRIS, PASITO, E-Science Network); cooperation with e-IRG and with IberGrid (Spanish-Portuguese cooperation in Grid-related issues). Functions of RedIRIS PR (VI)

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