ELIXIR Competence Centre planning meeting

Europe/Amsterdam
Description
This is the first meeting for the members of the ELIXIR Competence Centre of the EGI-Engage project. The plans and details of the competence centre will be discussed at the meeting. The meeting will be hosted in the EGI Webex system. WEBEX CONNECTION DETAILS: Connection link: https://egi.webex.com/egi/j.php?MTID=m925f36e95c6c4dd43a0c9b752c59055a Meeting password: engage

ELIXIR Competence Center organising

4.3.2015 14 - 15 CET

Participants:
   * Tommi Nyrönen, ELIXIR Finland@CSC head of node
   * Kimmo Mattila, CC main contact point (coordination)
   * Gergely Sipos, support 8 competence center and integrate to EGI, secure resources for 
   * Fotis Psomopoulos, bioinfo support for GRNET
   * Kostas Koumantaros, representative GRNET EGI ELIXIR GRNET contact
   * Ludek Matyska, CESNET -> Miroslav Ruda main contact, cloud & aai interest 
   * Rafael Jimenez, ELIXIR technical coordinators, in-kind
   * Rub Quick, OSG, US based, genomic. Not able to make Lisbon. Bill Barnett PI OSG trying to attend.
   * Steven Newhouse, head of EBI tech, cloud taskforce lead. Trying to recruit before 

Minutes

1.      Coordinator of the CC is CSC and the main practical contact is
Kimmo Mattila kimmo.mattila@csc.fi <mailto:kimmo.mattila@csc.fi>
 
2.      Checked CC Contacts cc-elixir@mailman.egi.eu
<mailto:cc-elixir@mailman.egi.eu>
 
https://www.egi.eu/sso/group/cc-elixir
 
3.      Next practical steps
 
a.      EGI community forum in Lisbon 
 
Fotis yes, Steven second half of the week, Ludek yes, Gergely yes, Kimmo yes, Rafael maybe,
Tommi not able to attend, Robert not able to attend

EGI CF 2015 Programme
   * Monday Advert about competence center (Blue) for general audience and other competence centers - voluntary basis Rafael checks if this is possible for him to give ELIXIR talk
   * Tuesday Inform state of federated cloud, and how to improve the Fedcloud. 

-> ELIXIR competence center kick-off meeting planned for Tuesday afternoon, chaired by CSC (default) 

   * Wednesday, cloud, licenses 
   * Thursday, open data, high-throughput computing 
   * Friday, AAI 

b.      AOB

Short discussion on the Selection process for the driving scientific use case (by Dec), lead EBI

1. We need to set Criteria  / boundaries to avoid false expectations; CC resource allow for only one or two high-impact scientific cases to be delivered and then marketed/advertised to the community

- Collaboration with ELIXIR Excelerate use cases is important
- We focus on non-sensitive (likely not human data as well) data procesessing
- Each CC member should consult use case priorities from their ELIXIR node, e.g. try to identify a local scientific stakeholder who benefits

2. On the running of the first CC session in May
- Early analysis from technica perspective of scientific use cases ELIXIR Excelerate has prioritised
- Analyse other potential/invited use cases -> interest is expected to raise after the session and there must be a way to justify our focus on just one or two cases of high impact. E.g. funding
- Introduce ongoing EGI initiated pilots to support life science. E.g. potential biodatasets for replication. Distribution of virtual machines for genome analysis. (Action for Kimmo to organise)

4.      Use of tools provided by EGI.eu
 
*         Contacts to affiliated organisations cc-elixir@mailman.egi.eu
<mailto:cc-elixir@mailman.egi.eu>

https://www.egi.eu/sso/group/cc-elixir
 
*         EGI Wiki is to be used for documents
https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI-Engage:Competence_centres

(Milestones and deliverables
https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI-Engage:WP6_(SA2)_Knowledge_Commons#Milestones_.28M.29_and_Deliverables_.28D.29)

*         Videoconferencing default : EGI Webex 
 
*         Key EGI relations officer : WP lead Gergely Sipos
 
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