1. Notes for MSC F2F
February 6, 2008

2. Over Arching Goals 1. Put OGF on a stable financial footing
2. Make our core happy and productive
3. Do good technical work

3. eScience (distributed
Target Constituency
HPC (Scientific
and engineering)
eScience (distributed
Data and compute)

4. How do we create a fiscally stable model for OGF?
Membership doesn’t seem like a sustainable model, as there is little ROI for vendors and other current sponsors
OGF-EUROPE funds won’t help (only a potential for expense savings)
Event Registration fee increase leverages what we already do
Stabilize membership and attempt a gradual (5%) increase with time

5. What can make our core more happy?
Communities
Workshops and better reporting
Centralized repository of information
Open Source
Tutorials
Spec adoption
Standards
Encourage WGs

6. Wrap-up of Thursday Consensus on Registration Fee increase
eScience/commercial HPTC and Infrastructure providers are our “core” – need to make them happy
Leverage OGF-EUROPE as much as possible
Workshop Outputs (increase visibility after the events; needs staff support to produce them; outreach plan)
Testing and Compliance, Testbeds (Interest in the community for doing these things – Who?, Who would benefit?) -> Bring up with the BTC-CG and possibly GFSG (also talk with Miron Livney)
Action: eScience (Julie, GCF) to initiate with BTC-CG to explore status and interest
Grid Project Registry
How the Board can help? They must be able to represent with conviction the technical direction and strategy (and be able to recruit new members)

7. Re-deploying staff High quality content for events
Focused content areas?
Right speakers
Leverage location’s topic strength (e.g., Cambridge & Pharma)
Manage work (groups and other) better
Support to Stds Councils for oversight
Enterprise & Escience
Helping with content and deliverables
Recruiting/engaging resources
What do we take away?
Support for ADCOM during OGF events
Simplify organizational model to reduce required support functions

8. OGF-EUROPE Where can they help?
Outreach, spec adoption
Event, workshop, outreach seminar planning/execution (reporting)
Funding to support GIN, Student Scholar, Experts
Marketing, media relations (in Europe)
How do we leverage them for spec adoption, events, membership, etc.?
Timeline for productivity
Launched Feb 1; Funding to follow

9. Membership
Difficulty getting traction with <research> partners and beyond (though it’s still early)
Membership value proposition not strong; improvement may come as deliverables hit the EU community

10. OGF’s Focused Problem Set (enterprise)
Where is the value in paying the money for membership; OGF not tackling the problems that enterprise cares about; Board not providing direction or supporting a clear technical direction
Enterprise (incl. vendors) doesn’t believe grid and grid standards is compelling enough to keep engaged
Shift focus of Enterprise activities to HPTC communities
Workshops and developing best practices in key markets (EDA, FSI, Pharma, etc.)
Target going to the customer’s turf (pay has to come from co-sponsors)
Best practice development
What do we have to give them?
Targets: Pharma/Life Science, EDA, Industrial Manuf (Auto, Xport), FSI
Leverage OGF-EU Community Outreach Seminars

11. TS&R Like the idea of multiple documents rolled up into one
Annual report vs. Technical Strategy
Two components:
Stuff we’re doing now
Stuff we’re doing in the future (near, long)
Plus a rationale for these things but still succinct
Get further input on whether an annual report is useful (to core and others)
Priority is to get the content documented; then to roll-up into a report (which should be web-based)

12. Thought Leadership Series
Should we make this a low or high barrier to entry?
Traffic by controversy vs. traffic by volume
Lowering barrier may encourage core to contribute
Vendors OK (solutions section?)
Give it some time; give visibility at OGF22 and see if we get more traffic

13. Key Action Items
Raising fees for events (model, socialize, and decide)
Monitor impact
Arguments for increase
Workshop outputs
Increase visibility
Outreach between events
No fee increase for years
Spec Adoption plan (how do we help?)
Initiate with OGSA, SAGA, HPC-BP and begin mapping out a plan
Leveraging OGF-EUROPE for Spec Adoption and Enterprise outreach/workshops
Action for John/Robert to meet with the team
Talk up TLS at OGF22 and encourage involvement
Get status of BTC-CG re: Testing/Cert. oppt’s
Map out strategy for getting reports on all workshops (and BoFs) at OGF22

14. Key Items to Consider and further explore
Testing & Compliance & Testbeds
BTC-CG
Alternate source of revenue for OGF (OGC model)
Annual report (instead of TS&R)
Get others’ input (benefit to core?) from Board, ADCOM, Core at Town Hall
Grid Project Registry
How to curate? Benefit?
Structure of Organization
Board, ADCOM, GFSG
Decision boundaries
Alternate forms of funding the organization
For pay tutorials, etc.
How can we maximize our limited resources (Staff, Leadership)?
What are we NOT going to do in order to do more?