Engagement meeting

October 4th 2017

Agenda page: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3503/

Chair: Gergely Sipos (EGI Foundation)

Attendees:

BG: Emanouil Atanassov

FR: Genevieve Romier

PT: Joao Pina (ibergrid)

NL: Natalie Danezi (Surfsara)

HR: Emir Imamagic and Tomislav

EGI Foundation: Sara Coelho, Giuseppe LaRocca, Diego Scardaci, Themis Athanassiadou, Yin Chen

Introduction (Gergely - See slides on Agenda):

• Reminder about the NIL role and purpose of the NIL meetings.

• New: handling of service orders from Website and soon from Marketplace

  • Most NGIs still don’t have a delegated person to deal with user service orders. Please contact Gergely to delegate someone. (can be a local user support email list too)

• NIL Survey: Gergely sent this out to the NILs, most countries already responded, those who did not received a reminder from Gergely in late Sep/early Oct.

  • ACTION FOR NILS: Those who did not respond please respond ASAP.

• Based on those who responded so far I prepared a map that shows the status of NGIs with respect to engagement activities. (slide 4)

Question Genevieve: why is FR, TR mentioned under Service Order?

Answer: Gergely: Only those two countries delegated service order contact so far. They are the positive examples. Other NGIs should still delegate someone.

Demo of EGI Marketplace (Diego)

• Landing page tour/ navigation bars

• General purpose instance - demo of requesting a VM/adding to cart

• Adding storage walkthrough

• Checkout process

• AoDS integration and rt-ticketing system.

• Call for testing - send email to list. (Action Diego)

New Brochures (Sara - See slides on Agenda)

• Publications (EGI Service catalogue, and use cases)

• New: CSIRT, EGI Check-in

• Next: Strategy, EGI & Research Infrastructures

• Service brochures? Sara asking for input on what would be useful.

• DI4R

• ACTION FOR NILS: If you need paper copies of these brochures then please contact press@egi.eu

Genevieve: thinks brochures are very useful. She will contribute with use case if something interesting comes up.

Tracking EGI/NGI publications/Datasets with OpenAIRE (Giuseppe - See slides on agenda)

• What is open access?

• What is OpenAIRE?

• Demo/example how to claim publications using openAIRE.

• New claims available in a week

Genevieve: she sent info to EGI

Link between openAIRE and other repos. Avoid duplication of efforts.

Correct harvesting by OpenAIRE - automation. Not willing to do this manually.

Emir: they (Croatia NGI) are setting up a portal to connect databases with their internal one.  OpenAIRE connection seems relevant.

Galaxy/Jupyter aaS in EGI (Giuseppe - See slides on agenda)

• What is Galaxy

• What is Jupyter

• Explain Galaxy as a service in EGI

• Explain JupyterHub as a service on EGI

• Need to define how the service should like like with NGI (OLA/SLA with providers)

• Asking for feedback from representatives

• Creation of task force. ACTION FOR NILS:

  • Join the task forces that finalise and release these two services. (giuseppe.larocca@egi.eu)

  • Propose similar services for support if you think those would be attractive for researchers. (giuseppe.larocca@egi.eu)  

EGI Engage update (Gergely - See second part of introduction slides on agenda)

• Suggested reading for NILs: D2.14 Final Report on Communications, Dissemination and Engagement. This provides a status update about community engagement, and highlights follow-up plans

• EOSC-pilot

• EOSC-Hub

Roundtable updates:

BG:

- Expecting results for national calls that were closed earlier this year (applications, infrastructure). Expected result in November, more than 10m EUR bidded

- Waiting for national roadmap for RIs, which can lead to additional national proposals

HR:

- Waiting for the big (already approved) project to start (2 more years). Currently planning a transitioning to this new infra, also bringing in new resources to EGI federated cloud

- Preparing a national workshop about EGI and NGI services. Use the Marketplace or AODS?

FR:

- Organising 'Success Days' (talks, demos, panels)

- Tutorial for iRODS admins and OpenStack Neutron admins (both French speaking)

- Info about events will be sent to EGI for promotion

PT:

- New roadmap is available for 3 years, starting from July

- LIP is infra provider (providing resources for all the other infras featured on the roadmap)

- So far established connections with LifeWatch and ELIXIR. We should find out similarities/alignment with EU level LW and ELIXIR activities

- Trying to collaborate with EMBRC-Lab

- EuroBioImaging: D2.14

Next meeting in 2 months (early Dec). Doodle will come.

AOB:

Q: What is position of EG wrt DIRAC? (Emir)

A: It is under finalisation to become part of EGI service catalogue. (Gergely)

Q: Asking because the dirac.egi.eu page is blank/uninformative

A: I’ll check but probably because the page assumes X509 cert and VO membership. I agree this should not be like that and the landing page should be informative for any visitor. I’ll raise this to the service owner.