Current Status of the Project C. Loomis CNRS/LAL The StratusLab project is co-funded by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (Capacities) Grant Agreement INSFO-RI

2 Administrative Points Collaboration Agreement  Signed by all partners, in force since end of July 2010  All partners should have received countersigned signature pages  Full copies can be requested from Guillaume Bénard Grant Agreement  After long delay, resolved IBBA issue between CNRS and EC  EC countersigned Grant Agreement 25 August 2010 Pre-financing  CNRS ready to distribute pre-financing to partners with Form A and Bank Info.  Waiting funds transfer from EC  Optimistically, partners should have money by end of September Partne r Form ABank Info. CNRSNAOK UCMOKMissing GRNE T OK SixSqOK TIDScanned TCDMissing

3 Technical Points Sprints  Completed Sprints 0, 1, and 2 (see JIRA, indico)  Currently in Sprint 3, result will be content of first StratusLab release  Sprint 4: likely to be clean-up, documentation, packaging Attendance at EGI-TF  5 people attending (CNRS, GRNET, TCD, UCM)  3 specific StratusLab presentations, additional OpenNebula talks Demo Preparations for EGI-TF  Will have booth at EGI-TF, manned by StratusLab attendees  Open question about projector/screen  Preparation of posters/flyers next week  Will need quick turnaround on comments for that material

4 Deliverables & Milestones Current Status Suggested Deliverable/Milestone Policy  Draft for review available no later than end of month.  Comments from TSCG, participants, (ext.) reviewers within 1 week  Final version available 1 week later  Sent to EC within 15 days of the end of the month DocumentStatus D2.1 (PM2): User/Admin SurveySubmitted (13 Aug. 2010) D4.1 (PM3): ArchitectureDraft for comments D5.1 (PM3): Infrastructure Spec.In preparation MS1 (PM3): Mgt. Infra. And Metrics Draft for review MS6 (PM3): WebsiteDraft for review QR1 (PM3)Waiting input from Activity Mgrs.

5 Points for Discussion Partner Participation  Generally good, worry about visibility of TID, UCM Hiring Issues  Need to ensure manpower is available for work plan Tighten Up Procedures  More rigorous testing, continuous integration procedures  Regular meetings of TSCG, more involvement in Sprint definitions Interactions between OpenNebula and StratusLab  Ensure consistent message between the two projects  Ensure close collaboration to avoid divergence of software Deliverable/Milestone Procedure (on agenda) Intellectual Property Decisions (on agenda)

6 Deliverable/Milestone Policy Suggested Deliverable/Milestone Policy  Draft for review available no later than end of month.  Comments from TSCG, participants, (ext.) reviewers within 1 week  Final version available 1 week later  Sent to EC within 15 days of the end of the month External Reviewers  Leave external reviewers to discretion of activity managers  Frank Harris willing to work informally with us with these

7 Deliverables/Milestones Propose common (all partners) copyright statement  Copyright © 2010, Members of the StratusLab collaboration: Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Greek Research and Technology Network S.A., SixSq Sàrl, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo SA, and The Provost Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth Near Dublin. Acknowledgement of EC funding on all documents  “StratusLab is co-funded by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (Capacities) Grant Agreement INSFO-RI ” Propose release under CC BY (attribution) license  Requires attribution, allows commercial/non-commercial reuse 

8 Presentations Propose to treat presentations like Deliverables/Milestones  Acknowledgement of EC funding  Common copyright  CC BY license

9 Code Copyrights  Propose that only partner creating file appears in copyright statement  Propose also acknowledgement of StratusLab before copyright –“Created as part of the StratusLab project (  Each file needs to contain copyright and license statement License  Partner decides what license to use  Should be strong preference for Apache2 to allow coherent StratusLab distribution  If not Apache2 or compatible, need evaluation of how code will fit into StratusLab distribution without contaminating other code before development starts

10 Scientific Papers Acknowledgement  “The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the European Commission to the StratusLab project ( Grant Agreement INSFO-RI ” “Open Document” Requirement  Scientific papers can only be submitted to journals that accept the “Open Document” requirement from the EC  Journal editors should be warned of this requirement when papers are submitted.  Authors must post the final document in an appropriate repository