EGI Conference 2015

Session

Engagement strategies: bringing together Competence Centres, NILs, UCB and Champions

21 May 2015, 17:00

ISCTE-IUL

Conveners

Engagement strategies: bringing together Competence Centres, NILs, UCB and Champions

• Gergely Sipos (EGI.EU)

Description

This session will bring together those EGI members who are active in the 'Engagement with new user communities' area and will offer them a forum to review and discuss EGI's Engagement Strategy, related recent experiences, and future directions to establish collaborations with potential new users. The EGI Engagement Strategy is described at http://go.egi.eu/engagementstrategy.

This session also serve as the first meeting of the 'EGI Engagement Board' since the start of the EGI-Engage project (1st of March). The meeting is open for everyone. Presence of the EGI Engagement board members are expected and is necessary for a successful session:
- NGI International Liaisons
- User Community Board members
- Representatives of Competence Centres
- Providers of user/community-facing tools
- EGI.eu members active in user engagement and support

Agenda points:
1. EGI Engagement Strategy - Overview and recent updates by Gergely Sipos

1. Updated EGI Champion programme by Sara Coelho

2. Community presentations (by VTs, NILs, Champions, UCB members, CC representatives)

3. Robert: Promoting Desktop Grids VT
4. Afonso: Genome Analysis and Protein Folding VT
5. Fotis: Dataset Replication VT
6. Lukasz/Giacinto: Federated Data VT
7. Alexandru Nicolin: Engaging with and supporting Nuclear Physics communities
8. Tomasz Piontek: Supporting users with the PL-Grid Application Registry
9. Genevieve Romier: Engaging with and serving national users in France

10. Afonso Duarte: Reaching out to life science users

11. Discussion topics

12. Support for the Competence Centres
13. Application of the EGI Long Tail Platform within the NGIs and within communities
14. What Virtual Teams to establish next?
15. EGI User Forum 2015 (Bari, November 10-13)
16. Other events - Community events? NGI events?

17. Regular engagement teleconference meetings

18. AOB

314. EGI Engagement Strategy - Overview and recent updates

21/05/2015, 17:00

315. Updated Champions programme

21/05/2015, 17:15

316. Community presentations

Dr Afonso Duarte (ITQB-UNL), Alexandru Nicolin (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering), Dr Fotis Psomopoulos (Institute of Applied Biosciences, Center for Research and Technology Hellas), Dr Giacinto Donvito (INFN), Lukasz Dutka (CYFRONET), Dr Robert Lovas (MTA SZTAKI), Romier Romier (CNRS), Tomasz Piontek (ICBP)

21/05/2015, 17:18

317. Discussion

21/05/2015, 17:48