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
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Updated EGI Champion programme by Sara Coelho
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Community presentations (by VTs, NILs, Champions, UCB members, CC representatives)
- Robert: Promoting Desktop Grids VT
- Afonso: Genome Analysis and Protein Folding VT
- Fotis: Dataset Replication VT
- Lukasz/Giacinto: Federated Data VT
- Alexandru Nicolin: Engaging with and supporting Nuclear Physics communities
- Tomasz Piontek: Supporting users with the PL-Grid Application Registry
- Genevieve Romier: Engaging with and serving national users in France
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Afonso Duarte: Reaching out to life science users
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Discussion topics
- Support for the Competence Centres
- Application of the EGI Long Tail Platform within the NGIs and within communities
- What Virtual Teams to establish next?
- EGI User Forum 2015 (Bari, November 10-13)
- Other events - Community events? NGI events?
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Regular engagement teleconference meetings
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AOB
