1. Towards Professional Grid Certification E&T Session October 16, 2007 Kilian Schwarz OGF21

2. agenda agree on text "towards professional Grid certificaton" (see groups gridfordge project – documents) –newest version of the document ? –something wrong ? –something missing ? –something unclear ? –passages to be removed ? can we start public comment phase ?

3. things to be discussed/clarified role of OGF/GPI –OGF: define the basic skill sets required copyright of certification details define procedures for quality assurance –GPI: responsibility for the entire process maintain training infrastructure

4. things to be discussed/clarified relationship between professional Grid certification and education offered by academic institutions

5. to be discussed/clarified length of knowledge acquisition: –how long should a course leading to certification last/ how much into detail goes the question catalogue ? 5 days per module (suggested by Macolm last OGF) –type of knowledge to be questioned/scope of examination

6. how to proceed do we start work on GCT/GCP ? define general content of base module (E&T Content ?) find some institution which would like to take the role of the GPI get feedback from industry (this afternoon) make sure that certification is visible and finds general acceptance

7. AOB ???