*Minutes of FedCloud Meeting, 28 April 2015*

*Attendees:* Enol (chair), Boris, Mirek, Zdeněk, Björn, Carlos, Danielle, David, Emir, Jens, Jerome, Malgorzata, Linda, Luis, Marios, Miguel, Mischa, Viet

*Aplogies:* Owen, Piotr, Michel, Sven, Diego, Vincenzo

*New members:* none

*Minutes from last meeting* in Indico


*Actions from last time:*
  - VMCatcher Release – already done two weeks ago
  - Approach to protecting VM Images – no news


Scenario Reports
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*VM Management:*
Boris:
  - Processing separate meeting results (Fri
  - Security Scenario Wiki page: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Fedcloud-tf:WorkGroups:Security
  - Preparation for Lisbon
David: Everyone encouraged to attend OCCI discussion in Lisbon

*Data Management*
Christos not present

*Accounting*
Stuart not present

*Monitoring*
Emir:
  - Availability tests improved
  - Discussion of CA/trustanchors version monitoring

*Information Discovery*
Peter not present

*Federated AAI*
Paul not present

*VM image Management*
Marios:
  - Defining work plan for Engage
  - Preparing for EGI Conference
  - Datasets implementation in AppDB – not strictly related to FedCloud
Enol: discussion of supported formats, results this week.
Marios: a matter of policy at this point


*Brokering*
Replacement scenario leader not found yet, Enol will find one.

*Intra Cloud networking*
Zdenek:
  - Attended INDIGO kick-off, establishing implementation team
  - Observers invited to join mailing list (write to Zdenek)
  - Will start a Wiki page for the scenario
Enol: reorganising Wiki with Mal, will send link to new page

*Federated Cloud Security*
Linda:
  - No news since last week.

*Operational Status and Issues*
Malgorzata:
  - Trying to find out how to monitor CA versions.
  - Working on reorganising Wiki Pages

*User Community news*
Diego mailed in a report:
  - Training events: HPCS and Harness events. Still looking for trainers. 
  - Training infrastructure: I'll send a proposal to create a training infra on cloud resources in the next days. 
  - Human Brain Project: we had a first meeting to assess the use cases. We will organise an internal meeting in the next days to organise the follow-up 
  - ESA Stimulus project: new use case, pay-for-use. In Assessment phase 
  - Chipster: working to start pilots with user communities 
  - BILS: integration is proceeding well. We will work on an SLA agreement when the integration of the first use cases is completed 
  - DRIHM use case: integration work is completed, feature exploiting the FedCloud integrated in the DRIHM Science Gateway. Use case in production. We are starting to work on dissemination and exploitation plans. SLA negotiation is running 
  - Auger: ready to move to production 
  - The DRIHM community is interested on Software License Management Solutions for the Cloud.    
  - Any plan in the FedCloud? 
Other requirements from users: 
  - VM image formats supported: what is the outcome of our discussion? 
  - Create and download snaphot of running VMs 

*AoB*

Enol: F2F meeting in Lisbon, Tue 19 May, probably 5pm
  - EGI-Engage JRA2.2 Roadmap (Alvaro)
  - Managing user requirements (Enol/Mal?)
  - VM image handling (Enol/Vincenzo)
  - VM management (Boris) – if there's time

David: What is the status of sites that were nearing certification?
Enol: France Integrated, LIP Integrated, Kisti asked for assistance on-site. Who wants to go?
CSC: some working environment, more to be done before certification

*Transcript from chat* (thanks Boris)
  Jerome Pansanel (IPHC, NGI_FR):good morning
  Jens Jensen (STFC):morning
  Carlos (BIFI):Good morning to everyone
  Enol Fernandez (EGI.eu/CSIC):good morning, shortly starting
  Emir Imamagic:morning, apologies for being late
  Boris Parák:https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Fedcloud-tf:WorkGroups:Security
  Krakowian:Hi, sorry for being late
  Boris Parák:ad. Security, on Sven's behalf I can report that we are
starting the Security Service Challenge
  Boris Parák:we will be starting VMs and then asking sites to provide
details based on IPs and timestamps
  Boris Parák:(details in the wiki)
  Boris Parák:agreed
  Daniele Lezzi (BSC):bye
  Mischa Sallé (Nikhef):Bye
  Miguel Diaz (CETA-CIEMAT):byee
  Kostas Koumantaros (GRNET):bye
  Carlos (BIFI):bye
  Jerome Pansanel (IPHC, NGI_FR):bye