Ruth Pordes, Scientific Liaison Meeting, 1/9/2013 Liaison Program Update: Goals of the Program Be a team of knowledgeable, active, pro-active, individuals who are providing excellent bi-directional, timely communication between the experiments/collaborations and the Computing Sector for any and all computing needs and issues and fulfilling the responsibilities as defined in the Liaison document. 1

Ruth Pordes, Scientific Liaison Meeting, 1/9/2013 What Margaret and I currently aim to do in 2013 Communication to and from Liaisons – ~6 x Monthly meetings and then get feedback on changes/ usefulness. – Other s part of communications plans of projects, services, etc. Updated MOU template and tracking – Behind on goal to update by end of Need help here! Computing Needs processes: – SCPPM, – Execution of the Request New/A Scientific Service process Initial version of “Computing Procedures for Research Groups and Researchers” – computing part and extensions to the PFX; work with the Services Manager Input to Liaison performance goals and performance assessments. – Liaison training guidance/video. KPIs/metrics – Thinking for next meeting Communicate, get input for program around Fermilab/Users/Management 2

Ruth Pordes, Scientific Liaison Meeting, 1/9/2013 ? Encourage attendance – information presentation and collection – at Collaboration Computing meetings. Encourage knowledge of and input to CS Projects:. – Monthly SCD meetings rojects%20Meetings.aspx rojects%20Meetings.aspx – SCD projects list in development t%20Spreadsheet/SCD%20Projects.aspx t%20Spreadsheet/SCD%20Projects.aspx Pilot reports communicating to CS through SNOW and/or simple sharepoint forms – any volunteers? 3

Ruth Pordes, Scientific Liaison Meeting, 1/9/2013 Roundtable to collect thoughts.. 4