NGI International Liaisons Meeting Summary

NGI Int’l Liaison Meeting Summary – Amsterdam Morning Introduction What is an NGI International Liaison and why do we need or want them? Establishing Virtual Project Teams Procedures, goals and outputs Supporting Systems (e.g. CRMs) NILs report to  TNA2.1N for managerial activity TNA2.6N for work on virtual projects Details to be further refined NGI Int’l Liaison Meeting Summary – Amsterdam 10 Nov 2011

Key points from Q&A (1 of 2) NGI International Liaison A Non-operations contact Knowledge of key activities and personnel throughout NGI Virtual Team Projects Short-term, targeted projects that start and finish Project ideas come from the community and notice of NGI's willingness to participate is communicated by NILs EGI.eu supports providing initial clarity to proposed idea prior to circulating to NILs only, non validity of proposal Mechanism for issues that are felt to be important from the community, which allows for effort to be recorded for that work No minimum # of participants Important only if objective of proposed work can be carried out in the stated time period Timeframe of projects = 1 month, 3, 6, etc. It can evolve, but projects are expected to start and stop NGI Int’l Liaison Meeting Summary – Amsterdam 10 Nov 2011

NGI Int’l Liaison Meeting Summary – Amsterdam Key points from Q&A (2 of 2) VT Project Life-cycle Proposal sent, NA2 revision, circulation to NILs, participation interest (or not) sent back. If project starts, weekly updates are sent via mailing list, marketing messages created periodically, final output report Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Central online tool for documenting contacts, potential users/communities, areas of interest - for benefit of all Taking best practices from industry and adopting for EGI Sales Automation (or New User Engagement) Marketing Management Identify and target its best customers (or users) and generate qualified leads (or potential communities/users) for the sales staff (or dissemination team) Customer Service and Support Tracking and management of customer services activities and support issues NGI Int’l Liaison Meeting Summary – Amsterdam 10 Nov 2011

NGI Int’l Liaison Meeting Summary – Amsterdam Virtual Team Projects Virtual Team Project Priority Participating NGIs 1 Intelligence Collection & Analysis Process A FI, UK, CH, SE, MC, HR, ES, PT, NL, LT, DE, FR, HU, SK, EGI.eu 2 Top applications and their user communities C FI, SE, ES, IL, DE, HU, SK, PL 3 ESFRI Contact List A/B FI, UK, CZ, CH, ES, NL, LT, IT, HU?, PL, EGI.eu 4 ESFRI Demonstrator / Design Study CZ, ES, NL, GR?, IT, PL 5 Application Porting How to guide FI, SE, ES?, IL, IT?, SK, PL 6 MPI within EGI CZ, MC, HR, ES, PT, IE, GR, IT?, SK 7 Assessing the adoption of Federated Identity Providers within the EGI Community CZ (Lead?), CH?, SE, IE, DE?, FR?, GR, IT? 8 EGI Community Workshops ongoing UK, MC, ES, NL, LT, HU, PL, EGI.eu 9 EGI Compendium PT?, IE, EGI.eu 10 Website content FI, UK, HR, ES, NL, LT, DE, FR, GR, IT, HU, SK? EGI.eu 11 VT project ideas from the Lithuanian LT 12 Inter NGI usage report CH, HR, ES, LT, DE, GR, IT NGI Int’l Liaison Meeting Summary – Amsterdam 10 Nov 2011

Conclusions & Next Steps Next Meetings End of January 2012 EGI.eu to come up with a meeting schedule for week of 23 January EGI Community Forum - Munich 2012 Virtual Team Projects Current ideas to be formally submitted Template to be provided Projects can take many forms Technical, non-technical, process-based, etc. You decide what is important! Start to submit your ideas NGI Int’l Liaison Meeting Summary – Amsterdam 10 Nov 2011