1. John Gordon, STFC-RAL GDB meeting @CERN April 8th 2009
Introduction
John Gordon, STFC-RAL
GDB April 8th 2009

2. GDB meetings in 2009 Second Wednesday of each month
June – OGF26 Chapel Hill, HPDC Munich
October – OGF27 Banff
Avoiding EGEE 09 September 21-25
January 14
February 11
March 11
April 8
May 13
June 10
July 8
August 12
September 9
October 14
November 11
December 9

3. Pre-GDB meetings Rooms booked for 2009 (most months)
Batch Systems, CEs.
Planned for this week
Storage for Tier2 (continued)
DPM, Storm, Hardoop
May?
Virtualisation - June
Site Management - July
Tier1
Reliability
Fabric Monitoring
Service Hardening
Special Interest Groups
WMS, Batch, FTS

4. Forthcoming Events LHCOPN Utrecht April 21-22
ISGC, Taipei, April 21-23rd 2009
HEPiX Spring Meeting, Umeå, May 25-29th 2009
STEP09, worldwide, June
HPDC, Munich, June 11-12th 2009
ISC, Hamburg, June 23-26
EGEE III 1st Review June 24-25
EGEE09, Barcelona, September 21-25th 2009
HEPiX Fall Meeting, NERSC, Berkeley, October 26-30
SC’09, Portland, Oregon, November 16-20th 2009

5. GDB Issues Pilot Jobs , glexec, SCAS Service Reliability
Storage
Reaction and mitigation of other incidents
Publishing Installed Resources
Benchmarking
CREAM
EGI
SL5

6. EGI Still progressing in separate strands
EGEE writing a second year workplan to anticipate EGI
Anticipating no-cost extension if required
Keep EGI services running as priority
EGI
EGI.eu will be in Amsterdam
Setting up formal EGI organisation with Council and MoU
Appointing Director
Forming Teams to develop transition plan
Will also work on proposals
WLCG
EU and many NGIs stress that EGI must deliver for LHC
WLCG needs to define what that means
Also propose an SSC for PP

7. EGI Transition Milestones
March 12: Deadline for technical persons from NGIs
Will work on transition document (which will also be a core of future project)
Early April: MoU and LoI available
End April: LoI signed by interested NGIs
May 6: (proto)EGI Council established
NGIs signing LoI are constituents
The EGI Project(s) team confirmed; this includes the project director(s) identification/confirmation (the person who will lead the team(s))
June: MoU signed, (full)EGI Council setup
The Transition towards EGI Deliverable published
March—May: EGI.org setup preparation
Includes search for EGI.org director and identification of EGI.org key personnel
June: EGI.org director appointed/identified
September: EGI.org setup at the latest (one month before the call closure)
July—December: EGI Project(s) preparation and submission
The MoU signing will continue after June, but the “latecomers” may not have direct influence on the composition of project preparation team nor on the selection of EGI.org director
2-Mar-09
J. Knobloch EGI Transition 3-Apr-2009

8. Topics for Future Meetings
Installed Resources Reports
User Support
Analysis Support
Following workshop, in preparation for STEP09
Pilot Jobs/SCAS testing
Other Suggestions?