1. web: www.omii.ac.uk email: info@omii.ac.uk OGSA-DAI Experience Facilitating Collaborations tooling and processes

2. web: www.omii.ac.uk email: info@omii.ac.uk Background OGSA-DAI started as a distributed project o IBM Hursley o Oracle o Edinburgh o Newcastle o Manchester o … Set infrastructure to establish collaborative environment o Incremental build up

3. web: www.omii.ac.uk email: info@omii.ac.uk The essentials Code Repository o We used CVS Closed but now opening up http://cvs.ogsadai.org.uk Web site o Hard to do well o Link to the outside world http://www.ogsadai.org.uk Branding o What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; …

4. web: www.omii.ac.uk email: info@omii.ac.uk Essentials II Communications o Face-to-face meetings Folks got to put names to faces o Access Grid (AG) meetings Worked when AG worked … o Telcons Mainly for management … or when AG did not work … o Mailing lists Internal – between members External – communicate with a user base Archives (searchable) Important!!

5. web: www.omii.ac.uk email: info@omii.ac.uk Things that worked well IRC (Internet Relay Chat) – chat room o Have our own (closed) server o Really helped to build team espirit de corps o Forum for technical discussions o Keeping server logs really useful Messaging (MSN/Skype/AIM/GoogleTalk/…) o Mostly point to point Meeting Scheduler o Doodl, Meet-o-matic Wiki (we used twiki) o Mainly acted as a document repository o Organic growth o Hard to find things

6. web: www.omii.ac.uk email: info@omii.ac.uk Things that did not work so well Bugzilla o Started off as a bug tracker o Became all things to all men o Lost effectiveness and got deprecated o Do support through the user mailing list

7. web: www.omii.ac.uk email: info@omii.ac.uk Things we are playing with now TRAC o Issue tracking/wiki/ Blog o Effective way of disseminating to community

8. web: www.omii.ac.uk email: info@omii.ac.uk Other things weve not tried … Forums Guestbooks Documentation annotators Surveys