Overall Community Objectives (Summary) 1.Build cross-vertical international communities 2.Help EUs understand and use Grids 3.Ensure that standards are cost effective for vendors to apply, then drive standards adoption 4.Identify and prioritize EU requirements and use cases, then drive them into the standards process

Community Objectives for GGF16 (1 of 2) 1.Create Community tracks (regional, enterprise and research) to build international communities Increase community-oriented focus at GGF events Use events as recruiting vehicle Use Community sessions to promote long term membership and participation Ensure meetings are well attended and of high value Develop GGF value proposition and messaging to help build communities Facilitate development of prototypes among the technical community to serve as inputs to the standards process Seek-out and work with key leaders in the community (Ian, Charlie, Andrew, Karl, Steve) to help develop/deliver content Use site to drive content proposals as well as Community attendance 2.Develop Area-specific Community sessions Develop sessions to build vertical communities around Telco, Pharma, Finance and Auto Start capturing a voice of the community (VOC) for each vertical Develop sessions to help EUs understand and use Grids Enlist technologists and vendors to help articulate “how to” in use of Grid Develop sessions to build major Grid project communities E.g. NCOIC/W2COG, TeraGrid, UK eScience, EGEE (European particle physics), OSG (Open Science Grid) for USA, Bring back OGCE (Open Grid Computing environments), MSI’s (Minority Serving Institutions) Develop regional sessions to contribute content relevant to the overall GGF community Engage to CRNET as part of regional program Engage European community as part of regional program

Community Objectives for GGF16 (2 of 2) 3.Develop sessions to engage vendors and open source communities Ensure representation from Standards groups in order to provide communication path with Communities and ensure that standards are cost effective for vendors to apply Develop sessions to drive standards adoption Establish groups around specific functional areas E.g. Data Management, Virtualization, Licensing, Ontologies, Semantic Web, DRM, Orchestration, Management, Utility Computing, Datacenter, Security, Infrastructure Management, Data Management, Apps Management, etc. 4.Build upon the success of GGF14 and GGF15 programs to drive continuous improvement and retain communities in the future Use event survey to increase attendance and augment value delivered via GGF events Identify returning community groups (e.g. Campus Grids) Use survey results to drive improvements and guide content Develop BKM for future events Use GGF Community satisfaction survey to increase participation, and augment value delivered by of GGF