EGEE-III INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks ?? Athens, May 5-6th 2009 Community Support SSC

EGEE-III INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks Skills for a Connected World - SCOW

EGEE-III INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks Call Virtual Communities Main focus on new communities. Providing a path from first contact to mature engagement Dissemination -> training -> capacity building -> VO Engage with EGI, other e-Infrastructures (PRACE), ESFRI projects, NGIs, other FP7 projects

EGEE-III INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks Expressions of interest from NGIs UK Germany France Discussing with Italy Spain

EGEE-III INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks Currently have the core of a group of training experts and services Need to provide some integration for: NGI provision Project provision Academic provision Address the issue of scale and diversity

EGEE-III INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks In order to address the issues Accessible to all NGIs Accessible to all potential participants Accessible for projects Building the capacity of NGIs, projects and communities to support their own training needs Provide bridges to academic provision and formal Certification processes Only highly innovative options for provision will meet these needs

EGEE-III INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks Build on existing expertise in online delivery, Winter schools Access Grid provision Second Life Materials in iTunes, Facebook, …. Etc Web 2.0 Webinars Build on ICEAGE Multi-middleware support Accreditation Academic course catalogues

EGEE-III INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks AIMS Promote the development of a broad range of communities Development of existing communities Formation of new communities Engagement of new geographical areas Help communities learn from each others experiences Feed experiences back to EGI Spread best practice Support communities in becoming self sustaining

EGEE-III INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks Mechanisms Engaging with EGI’s training coordination role Providing support infrastructures for experimentation During learning By developers By new communities By new regions Bringing new provision models Eg. clouds Shared events between communties/projects/SSCs Collaboration with PRACE/DIESA

EGEE-III INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks Mechanisms Summer Schools Online support winter schools permanently available online tutorials Coordinated training event information Engagement with specific communities, providing exemplars collecting and publicizing case studies of successful engagement Cloud based teaching environments Provision of a online “clearing system” to support users from dissemination through to a VO

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI SSC participation Main participants to EGEE-NA3 are expected to continue the activity : –UK (NGS)‏ –Italy (IGI) –Hungary (SZTAKI) –……. –Additional partners –Germany (FZJ) –Sweden (KTH) Collaborating projects –EELA-2 –EPIKH –……. ESFRI PRACE DEISA ……. Discussions already with Biomed community 11

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI Governance & Technical Organisation The Governance Body will be opened to funding NGIs –representatives from other entities (others NGIs, countries without NGIs, summer schools consortia ) can be admitted A Coordination/Planning Board is expected being setup –representatives both from middleware consortia and operations would improve the quality and effectiveness of the provided services A web portal is expected to be created and maintained without external sustain –Building on existing mechanisms and NGI services

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI Estimated effort Three main activities have been identified –Content Creation, Scheduling, Organisation, Delivery (7 FTE)‏  update and provision of training material, scheduling, organisation and delivery of requested events  Collaboration evetns –Coordinated Support mechanisms  t-Infrastructure provision and coordination (3* FTE)‏ support services (web site, user web forum, direct user support, training tools..)‏ coordinations and overview of production resources devoted to training managing of training-dedicated sites (if any, 1 FTE per site)‏  Coordinated Trainer Support Systems (1 FTE)‏  Agile experimentation environments (Clouds) (1FTE) – coordination with NGS (UK)  Experimentation desktop (1FTE) - SZTAKI –Activity Management and partner coordination (1 FTE)‏  General overview of activities, reporting, liasons with management boards

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI Relation with other SSCs and evolution An interface can be dedicated in order to provide training focused on specific areas –SSC should request this level of support Evolution –??