EMI INFSO-RI NA2 – Outreach and collaborations Status Report Emidio Giorgio (INFN Catania) Work Package Leader EMI First EC Review 22 June 2011, Brussels

EMI INFSO-RI Project Management NA2 22/06/2011 1st EMI Periodic Review 2 Requirements Technical Plans Development and Test Plans Development Testing Certification Validation Release Maintenance Support NA1, JRA1 JRA 1 SA1 SA2 Software & Services Requirements Defines ImplementsCertifies Release Candidate Process definition Process monitoring NA2 NA1, NA2 Training Dissemination & Out-Reach In-Reach NA1 Collaborations, exploitation, sustainability

EMI INFSO-RI NA2 Objectives WP2 – Emidio Giorgio - EMI First EC Review 22 June “Make the EMI achievements known through managed outreach and dissemination activities” “Enlarge the base of expert developers and engineers knowledgeable in the EMI technologies through comprehensive training programs and materials” “Establish managed collaboration programs with other projects, initiatives and commercial enterprises to make the EMI technologies part of their ongoing development efforts” “Ensure the active exploitation of project results the creation of a sustainable model through the definition of exploitation results, targets and partners” Dissemination Events - Material Public Web SIte Training Courses Collaboration Activities Exploitation & Sustainability

EMI INFSO-RI … and Strategies WP2 – Emidio Giorgio - EMI First EC Review 22 June Individuation of Dissemination channels Analysis of EMI position in the “market” Branding Identification of exploitable items Involvement of potential new users Training Measuring responses Sysadmin Surveys Web site Articles in specialized web sites Analysis Users Conferences

EMI INFSO-RI Dissemination events WP2 – Emidio Giorgio - EMI First EC Review 22 June Main Events attended EMI Technical Conference/EGI UF 2011 ISGC 2011/OGF31 Cloudscape III SuperComputing 2010 EEF meeting SIENA Chep 2010 ICT 2010 EGI Technical Forum 2010 OGF29 / OGF30 1st DCI Collaboration Meeting Nordugrid 2010

EMI INFSO-RI Dissemination material WP2 – Emidio Giorgio - EMI First EC Review 22 June Dissemination material Posters Technical areas EMI project Kebnekaise EMI-branded gadgets Sticker Cotton bag Video Interviews EMI TC high profile Participants Articles / Press releases ISGTW Kebnekaise article Keb release announcement EMI Survey Gridcast MoU signing at EGI WS EMI data roadmap Presentation of EMI LSWN EMI 1 press release EMI TC announcement EGI Inspired Kebnekaise

EMI INFSO-RI EMI web site WP2 – Emidio Giorgio - EMI First EC Review 22 June Middleware User Support Forum Collaborations Training Events News Press Documentation

EMI INFSO-RI Overview of website access WP2 – Emidio Giorgio - EMI First EC Review 22 June 2011 EMI TC Kebnekaise announcement

EMI INFSO-RI Documentation WP2 – Emidio Giorgio - EMI First EC Review 22 June Single place for European Middleware documentation !

EMI INFSO-RI Training 10 EMI in EGI Technical Conference EMI in EGI Technical Conference Second EMI in reach EMI tutorial for resources admin EMI tutorial for users EMI tutorial for users TopicPart.Rate * CREAM install UNICORE inst105 dCache install204.5 A-Rex inst155 EMI User Tut TopicPart. Rate * Guidelines for usage of EMI tools Using EMI testbed Certification, change and release mgt * Scale 1-6 (top)

EMI INFSO-RI SLAs, MoU and Networking 11 SLA + MoU MoU Common initiatives WP2 – Emidio Giorgio - EMI First EC Review 22 June 2011

EMI INFSO-RI Concrete, Flexible approach WP2 – Emidio Giorgio - EMI First EC Review 22 June EGI collaboration ranging from integrated Help Desk support and TCB participation to joint dissemination and analysis of business models. We-NMR collaboration built upon the needs of this community testbed availability adjusted to optimize ease of use and direct feedback lessons learned and put to use in Works with EMI programme.

EMI INFSO-RI Exploitation & Sustainability 13 Expansion of the user base Decrease of costs SW quality improvement Easier access to services; Training /dissemination SW quality improvement Easier access to services; Training /dissemination Simplification Standardization Shared infrastructure and sw engineering; Simplification Standardization Shared infrastructure and sw engineering; WP2 – Emidio Giorgio - EMI First EC Review 22 June 2011

EMI INFSO-RI Exploitation and Sustainability : actions WP2 – Emidio Giorgio - EMI First EC Review 22 June Sustainability Surveyed PT Deprecated components Standardization (EMI-ES, Glue2…) Common OS support Best practices (FHS) Common libs Simplified installation process Exploitation Product analysis plan Analysis of exploitable opportunities Release codenames Exploitation of methods Relationship improvements (collaborations)

EMI INFSO-RI Key Performance Indicators KPITargetAchieved Number of international events organised 22 Number and type of published material 435 [1] Number of training events 44 Number of EMI products included in standard repositories Major services and 80% of client components Not relevant since EMI products are released after reporting period WP2 – Emidio Giorgio - EMI First EC Review 22 June

EMI INFSO-RI Towards Second Year EMI Kebnekaise release drives NA2 activities – Dissemination turns from preparation to promotion of EMI 1 2 nd EMI TC, OGF3x, SC’11, ISC’11, CHEP 2012 – Training focused on exploitation of whole EMI software stack DCISS, webinars (in/out reach) – EMI 1 availability will foster new collaborations – Users’ feedback will drive exploitation and sustainability tasks Identification of most critical products WP2 – Emidio Giorgio - EMI First EC Review 22 June

EMI INFSO-RI Thank you 17 WP - Presenter Name - EMI First EC Review 22 June 2011 EMI is partially funded by the European Commission under Grant Agreement INFSO-RI