1. Daniel Field Atos Origin

2. Overview What is Gridipedia? Contributing to Gridipedia Promotion of Gridipedia Grid Voices: Blogging about Grids and cloud The Future of Gridipedia: Sustainability Next Steps

3. What is Gridipedia? BREIN TrustCOM SLA@SOI GridSystems DataSynapse 3Tera

4. MULTIMEDIA FIMLS What Is Gridipedia? NEWS* & ANNOUNCEMENTS TECH INFORMATION SOFTWARE COMP /SOLUTIONS BEST PRACTISES BUSINESS REPORTS IT CONSULTANCY CASE STUDIES

5. What is Gridipedia?  Gridipedia Offerings What is the Grid? What is the Cloud? A History of Grid Overview of middleware Grid computing glossary Publications

6. Gridipedia is more Technical Solutions Downloadable SW Components Design patterns Best practice guidelines Business Aspects Market analysis Business case Success Stories

7.  But, Gridipedia is more than just an information site  Open to contributions ▪ Market software solutions ▪ Promote success stories  Requirement : Technical Merit and Sound Business Case  No restriction on licensing choice Gridipedia is more

8. Contributing to Gridipedia New Associate membership coming soon!

9. Promoting Gridipedia Improving content of articles, and new contributions New thematic areas, cloud computing, green IT, Google-friendly Grid Voices blog Attending events, stands and workshops Press releases Articles Paid keyword advertising Word of mouth … Professional marketing campaign underway! Google Ads Banner campaign Social media

10. Promoting Gridipedia

11. Grid Voices A regular blog from recognised members of the European Grid and Cloud research community Stefan Wesner - HLRS Santi Ristol - Atos Origin Dora Varvarigou - NTUA Craig Lee - OGF Mark Parsons – EPCC Rosa M Badia - BSC Csilla Zsigri - The 451 Group Adrian Mouat – EPCC Avner Algom - IGT www.gridipedia.eu/grid_voices.html Get involved!

12. STEP 1 Background analysis STEP 2 Definition of Gridipedia STEP 5 Transfer Gridipedia to the owner(s) The Future of Gridipedia Jan’08 Apr’09Sep8 STEP 3a Business model (scenarios) STEP 3b Improve current Gridipedia STEP 4 Find an owner(s) & work out a Business Plan STEP 6 Set-up new infrastructure 1st workshop & cross team Feb’08 2nd workshop May’08 On-going redesign (Act5) Marketing & Tech transfer (wp63) Nov’08 Identifiy owner Biz plan Sustainability plan Agreement Sep’09

13. Associate members Gold Silver Bronze Ad hoc Increasing prominence of content Increasing commitment Associate members with regular contributions Membership is open!

14. Cloud Virtualization Grid SOA Case Studies Business benefits Market trends Company profiles Product analysis Insider perspective Videos Contributions Analyst reports Software components Design patterns

15. Next Steps Increase content from the BEinGRID project Improve access to content in Gridipedia Launch the new look and feel Step up the communication plan Finalise the plans for sustainability

17. Content vs Container & Owners GRIDIPEDIA REPOSITORY Act 1 Software / Tech reports Act 2 Biz Reports / Consultancy CONTENTS BE Solutions Links, Films, External contributions Content Owners A, B, C … Gridipedia Owner(s)

18. Step 1: Benchmarking What does already exist in the market ? Other sites overview / competitors? Revenue model (if any) ? Suppliers of Grid. * Documents Marketplace Community News …