1. Update – 16/April/2014 Gergely Sipos gergely.sipos@egi.eu
NIL meeting EGI Engagement Strategy
Update – 16/April/2014
Gergely Sipos
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2. Engagement strategy document
Not only a strategy, but also
Description of responsibilities and support tools
Specific plans for a three months period
Metrics
New issue every three months
First issue: January 2014
Second issue: Second half of April  Presented today
Third issue: September 2014
Continuous updates in between
Updates through the EGI Engagement Advisory Board:
NILs, UCB, Champions, EGI.eu members, EAB, NA2 managers
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3. Engagement covers Four areas: Presented later today:
Outreach (Neasan)
Scoping (Nuno)
Implementation (Gergely)
Cross-cutting issues (Diego)
Presented later today:
Progress since January (against goals)
Achievements, delays, lessons learnt
New goals
May-September
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4. One significant change in the new Engagement Strategy document
Extended goals section based on contributions from NILs, UCB, DCC:
National Engagement plans (based on input from the NILs)
Build on local competences – E.g. gateway based support; university outreach; local engagement activities; etc.
Community engagement plans (written by UCB members)
DCC engagement plans (written by DCC members)
Expected – 1 Paragraph / contributor
Set SMART goals
Specific – target a specific area for improvement
Measurable – with expected outcome or indicator stated
Assignable – you should know who will do it from Your NGI/community
Realistic – given your available resources, and the time
Time-related – specify when the result(s) can be achieved.
Deadline: 5th of May
Send input to
SMART:
Specific – target a specific area for improvement.
Measurable – quantify or at least suggest an indicator of progress.
Assignable – specify who will do it.
Realistic – state what results can realistically be achieved, given available resources.
Time-related – specify when the result(s) can be achieved.
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5. Outreach Progress # Goal Achievement Status 1
Create a portfolio of materials around the EGI Solutions
Three stand alone brochures, a 3 in 1document and an overview poster created
Extended 2
Re-scope the solutions as text that can be “plugged into” non-EGI lead H2020 proposals
Waiting on completion of the fourth solution (HTC data analysis) 3
Run two webinars
Ran one on the Federated Cloud for developers 4
Prepare two webinars for May and June 2014
Planning webinars on Federated Operations and Community Driven Innovation
Achieved 5
Book, prepare materials for the European Geological Union General Assembly in Vien
Stand booked, two posters created, will be attended by two members of the Communications Team 6
Book and prepare materials for ECCB and EBEC
Stands booked, initial material planned 7
Prepare a requirements capturing form to support face-to-face interviews.
No work done
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6. Outreach – plans (May-Sep)
Investigate future ESFRI interactions
EGI presence at “internal” events e.g. BMB workshop BBMRI meeting
Discover management contacts for one-on-one discussions
Use data collected during previous scoping phase
Monitor ESFRI H2020 projects
Focus on humanities
Work with Gene Sequencing VT to produce material
Work with Environmental Sciences VT to produce material
Look into the need/suitability for new research champions
Collect stats on the publications being published using EGI
Monitor the CTA science gateway integration to feed into future outreach activities
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7. Scoping: Progress # Goal Achievement Status 1
Kick-off ESFRI RIs & Communities collaborations (R)
Active :
LifeWatch , CLARIN
Env. Sciences, Astro, Seq. & protein folding
Prospective VT’s are in different maturing stages
LifeWatch in standby (VT objectives under discussion)
CLARIN, Env. Sciences, Astro: discussion on objectives
Seq. & Protein folding: scoping completed
Extended 2
Kick-off ESFRI RIs & Communities collaborations (Y)
Active:
EMSO
Agricultural Sciences
EMSO in standby
Agr. Sciences in good shape (objectives, use cases,…) 3
Define >= 4 VT projects
Sequencing & protein folding VT PID delivered 4
Define >= 1 VT DIRAC focused
No progress. DIRAC4EGI being CYFRONET.
Source:
Current ‘EGI Engagement Strategy’ (2014), v9
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8. Scoping: ESFRI coll. drill down
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9. Scoping : Comm. coll. – drill down
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10. Next meetings … Closing polls : 16th Apr. 2014 CoB
NGI ESFRI collaborations
CLARIN            : 
NGI community collaborations Astro             :
Environmental Sci.: 
Agricultural Sci. : 
DIRAC focused project
DIRAC4EGI being CYFRONET
3 dedicated EGI.CF.2014
Next step: bring new use cases
Work framework: VT
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11. Scoping: plans (May-Sep)#
Description 1
Conclude ongoing ESFRIs & Community collaboration VT scoping activities:
CLARIN, EMSO, EPOS, EuroBioImaging, IAGOS, Instruct, LifeWatch, SKA
Astro, Env. Sciences, Agricultural Sci. 2
Follow-up ESFRI manager-level interactions with scoping activity (see related Outreach goal). Develop new VTs where possible. 3
Deliver >= 1 DIRAC VT focused project
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12. Implementation Progress#
Goal
Achievement
Status 1
Formally close the CTA VT
VT closed, technology proposal accepted. Integration of InSilicoLab and SCI-BUS gateway is ongoing in PL
Achieved 2
Formally close the ELIXIR VT and agree on follow-up actions
VT closed.
2 pilots agreed (but still has to start).
ELIXIR session at the EGI CF 3
Finish the CMMST VT
VRC plan is finished, VRC setup started. VT will be formally closed later this week. 4
Finish the ‘Promoting Desktop Grids in EGI’ VT
Progress is slower than expected. VT needs more time.
Extended 5
Continue the ENVRI Study case and DRIHM collaboration
ENVRI study case: ENVRI meeting. H2020 planning
DRIHM collaboration. Good progress–EGI grid (& cloud), PRACE
Achieved (kept) 6
Obtain status on EGI-EUDAT-PRACE pilots and agree on next steps
Active community: CMMST and DRIHM
DRIHM: existing allocation until the end of 2014
CMMST: Writing proposal for a PRACE allocation
Extended (with new focus) 7
Start implementing new VTs
Started: Business engagement with SMEs
Soon to start: “Support for genome analysis and protein folding” VT
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13. Implementation – plans (May-Sep)
Make the EGI Federated Cloud Market ready by CF
Improve Federated Cloud user services based on feedback from CF
ELIXIR pilots
Support for CMMST VRC setup (XSEDE, PRACE, SCI-BUS, H2020 VRE, MoU)
Finish the promoting Desktop Grids VT
Finish the SME VT (Sep 31)
Continue the DRIHM collaboration
Start and progress with NGS VT
Take new VTs as they arrive
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14. Cross-cutting issues - progress#
Goal
Achievement
Status 1
New ‘user-focussed’ EGI web portal
Designed started in conjunction with the EGI.eu policy & ops team.
Extended 2
Identify a method to account for the usage of robot and short-lived certificates
A possible method has been identified.
Organized a meeting to propose the solution to the main EGI portal providers (
Good participation and feedback: WS-PGRADE, WeNMR, CSGF, VIP.
The EGI accounting team was involved too. Agreed to run a test campaign. 3
Finish Identify (setup?) tools and processes to recognise and collect NGI/EGI-related publications.
Still a manual process – See outcome on next slide
Work with OpenAire to automate the process is ongoing 4
Identify additional targets for the Outreach process
New VT on Business Engagement started:
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15. Collected EGI publications Statistics
France
Greece- 108
Poland - 47
Cyprus - 60
UK - 261
Portugal - 391
Netherlands - 124
Czech republic - 413
Lithuania - 8
Bulgaria - 47
Georgia - 1
Moldova - 2
Send further input to Neasan ONeill
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16. Cross-cutting issues – plans (May-Sep)
EGI.eu User Portal: first release ready for the next review
EGI.eu User Portal: complete the design and define an implementation plan
Finish the tools and processes to recognise and collect NGI/EGI-related publications in an automated way
Robot Certificate accounting
Test the proposed solution in collaboration with the EGI accounting team.
Run end-to-end tests with at least 2 EGI science gateways
Define extension to the Engagement Strategy based on outcome of the SME Business Engagement VT (will finish on Sep 31)
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17. Updates from the NILs
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18. EGI CF 2014
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19. Next meetings https://indico. egi. eu/indico/categoryDisplay. py
Community Forum
Engagement (NIL meeting), Helsinki (May 19)
Project final review (July 2-3)
F2F NIL meeting July 1st
After the summer (all 2pm Ams time)
17 Sep, 22 Oct, 19 Nov, 17 Dec
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