INFSO-RI NA2 ETICS2 first Review Isabel Matranga Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA Bruxelles, 3 April 2009 Dissemination, Training and Certification

INFSO-RI Bruxelles, 3 AprilNA2 Dissemination, Training and Certification Contents Goals Major Achievements Metrics and Statistics Challenges Conclusions

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INFSO-RI Bruxelles, 3 AprilNA2 Dissemination, Training and Certification Goals Disseminate the knowledge produced by the project Train engineers, scientists and service providers in the use of ETICS through the organization of focused events Maintain, improve and promote the ETICS Grid Quality Certification Model (GridQCM – now A-QCM) Evaluate long-term sustainability strategies and possible business models for the commercialization of ETICS services

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INFSO-RI Bruxelles, 3 AprilNA2 Dissemination, Training and Certification Dissemination of ETICS Rebranding New Logos New Website Design

INFSO-RI Bruxelles, 3 AprilNA2 Dissemination, Training and Certification Dissemination of ETICS Dissemination material Website Brochure Posters Contributions to EC FP7 Folder and EGEE booklet

INFSO-RI Bruxelles, 3 AprilNA2 Dissemination, Training and Certification Dissemination of ETICS Dissemination Events Physics Service (PSM) Grid Seminar in Krakow UMD Workshop IDPT 2008 Condor week 2008 European Condor week 2008 OGF25/EGEE User Forum OGF23 EGEE 2008

INFSO-RI Bruxelles, 3 AprilNA2 Dissemination, Training and Certification Dissemination of ETICS News, articles, papers Contributions send to iSGWT and Primeur magazine Papers: ETICS Meta-data Software Editing - From Check Out To Commit Operations (Journal of Physics Conferences Series) ETICS: the International Software Engineering Service for the Grid (Journal of Physics Conferences Series) A Multi-node Mechanism to interoperability Issue in health care (Accepted for publication on Transactions of the SDPS: Integrated Design & Process Science Transdisciplinary International Journal) CERN computer news letter Zero-In e-Magazine

INFSO-RI Bruxelles, 3 AprilNA2 Dissemination, Training and Certification Dissemination of ETICS Promotion on the web EGEE Collaborating Projects page EGI-DS knowledge base page Gasuc (Grid Application Support Centre) page Belief II digital library Promotion to other projects QualiPSo Pharos BEinGRID Promotion in commercial environments EUMETSAT ESOC Cosmic Blue Team SpA

INFSO-RI Bruxelles, 3 AprilNA2 Dissemination, Training and Certification Training on ETICS System Plan and material Training Plan defining: Type of training Potential training targets Forms of training Channels Material Training Material revised and updated Training demos

INFSO-RI Bruxelles, 3 AprilNA2 Dissemination, Training and Certification Training on ETICS System Training Events 2 Induction Training courses for new users at FZJ, SZTAKI, VEGA, INFN 3 Standard Training courses for UNICORE and ARC developpers and OGF25/EGEE User Forum attendees 1 Advanced Training course for gLite developpers Tutorial of ETICS at BalticGrid Summer School (July)

INFSO-RI Bruxelles, 3 AprilNA2 Dissemination, Training and Certification A-QCM Collected feedback from internationally recognised experts Conference Experts Alain Abran – Software Metrics expert - Professor - Department of Software Engineering & I.T. Günter Glöe – Certification Expert - TÜV NORD Kazuhiro Esaki – Industrial Expert - EBARA Corporation Validation and refinement (Coding Style module metrics) Grid-QCM becomes A-QCM (Automated Quality Certification Model) OGF23

INFSO-RI Bruxelles, 3 AprilNA2 Dissemination, Training and Certification A-QCM New collaborations STAR-LAB project run by the University of Genoa in Italy CTI (Centro de Tecnologia da Informação Renato Archer) an organisation working in the domain of product quality evaluation Design for the A-QCM report generator interface Mapping of ETICS guidelines and processes and established standards (ISO/IEC Software Lifecycle Processes, ITILv2) Competitors analysis

INFSO-RI Bruxelles, 3 AprilNA2 Dissemination, Training and Certification Long-term sustainability strategies Revision and update of exploitable knowledge ETICS System for building and testing software Quality Certification Service Identifcation of the potential target market and motivations EU and national research projects. Large software companies Large research centres SME associations Competitors analysis Cruise Control Anthill Bamboo Continuum Pulse …

INFSO-RI Bruxelles, 3 AprilNA2 Dissemination, Training and Certification Long-term sustainability strategies Analysis of the elements which compose the ETICS System Identification of a set of potential services - the ETICS offer Installation and setting up of the ETICS system Hosting of the ETICS System Hosting of ETICS core infrastructure Quality Certification Service Testing Services Support Services Training Identification of a possible revenue mechanism

INFSO-RI Bruxelles, 3 AprilNA2 Dissemination, Training and Certification Long-term sustainability strategies Identification of sustainability scenarios Discussion on Business Model started Discussion on post-ETICS 2 cooperation agreement started

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INFSO-RI Bruxelles, 3 AprilNA2 Dissemination, Training and Certification Metrics and Statistics Deliverables DNA2.1 (Training Plan) RELEASED DNA2.2 (Dissemination and Use of Knowledge Plan – first update) RELEASED DNA2.3 (ETICS Grid Quality Certification Model Activity Report) RELEASED DNA2.4 (First year Analysis of Training and Tuning Activities) RELEASED DNA2.5 (Dissemination and use of knowledge plan – second update) RELEASED DNA2.6 (Long-term Sustainability Strategy and activity report – first release) RELEASED

INFSO-RI Bruxelles, 3 AprilNA2 Dissemination, Training and Certification Metrics and Statistics Milestones MNA2.1 - Public relation and promotional material available OK MNA2.2 - Training courses and demos available on-line OK MNA2.3 - Dissemination events organized (according to dissemination plan) OK MNA2.4 - Two projects are issued with a GridQCM certificate (gLite, UNICORE) Delayed

INFSO-RI Bruxelles, 3 AprilNA2 Dissemination, Training and Certification Metrics and Statistics Number of new projects using the ETICS System 8 Friends of ETICS2 59 Website Nr. of accesses per month Nr. of downloads Nr. of reverse links 790 / 7 News echos Press release News 2 Number dissemination events Other Events Papers 4343

INFSO-RI Bruxelles, 3 AprilNA2 Dissemination, Training and Certification Metrics and Statistics Number of brochures/flyers/fact sheets 3 Number posters exhibited in external events 2 Number of training events and trained people Training Events Trained people: 6 68

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INFSO-RI Bruxelles, 3 AprilNA2 Dissemination, Training and Certification Challenges Future steps Dissemination towards a target markets not Grid related A-QCM Improvement and validation through feedback from experts and users Start activities for ISO standardisation Organisation of targeted workshops Consolidation of the sustainability strategy

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INFSO-RI Bruxelles, 3 AprilNA2 Dissemination, Training and Certification Conclusions Grid-QCM is now A-QCM Many software professionals are interested in ETICS A sound sustainability strategy is being identified