1. Dissemination, Training and Certification
ETICS 2 Periodic Review
Isabel Matranga
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA
Brussels, 3 April 2009

2. Contents Goals Major Achievements Metrics and Statistics
Challenges and Issues
Future Plans
Conclusions
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4. Goals From the project Technical Annex
“Disseminate the knowledge produced by the project”
“Train engineers, scientists and service providers in the use of ETICS through the organization of focused events”
“Maintain, improve and promote the ETICS Grid Quality Certification Model (GridQCM – now A-QCM)”
“Evaluate long-term sustainability strategies and possible business models for the commercialization of ETICS services”
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6. Dissemination of ETICS Rebranding
New Logos
New Website Design
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7. Dissemination of ETICS Promotional material
Brochure
Posters
Website
Contributions to EC FP7 Folder and EGEE booklet
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8. Dissemination of ETICS Getting in touch with communities
Condor week 2008
IDPT 2008
OGF23
Physics Service (PSM)
EGEE 2008
Grid Seminar in Krakow
European Condor week 2008
OGF25/EGEE User Forum
UMD Workshop
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9. Dissemination of ETICS ETICS in the news and on the web
CERN computer news letter
Zero-In e-Magazine
Contributions send to iSGTW and Primeur magazines
Promotion on the web
EGEE Collaborating Projects page
EGI-DS knowledge base page
Gasuc (Grid Application Support Centre) page
Belief II digital library
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10. Dissemination of ETICS Promotion towards …
… other projects
…. commercial activities and services
EUMETSAT (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites -
ESOC (European Space Operration Centre
CBT (Cosmic Blue Team SpA
QualiPSo
Pharos
BEinGRID
UNICORE
KnowARC
EGI_DS
BalticGrid
See-Grid
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11. Dissemination of ETICS Scientific Contributions
ETICS Meta-data Software Editing - From Check Out To Commit Operations (Journal of Physics Conferences Series)
ETICS: the International Software Engineering Service for the Grid (Journal of Physics Conferences Series)
A Multi-node Mechanism to interoperability Issue in health care (Accepted for publication on Transactions of the SDPS: Integrated Design & Process Science Transdisciplinary International Journal)
The Impact of Grid on Health Care Digital Repositories (Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on System Sciences)
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12. Training on ETICS System Tools and instruments
Training Plan :
Type of training
Potential training targets
Forms of training
Channels
Material
Training Material revised and updated
Training demos
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13. Training on ETICS System Events
2 Induction Training courses for new users at FZJ, SZTAKI, VEGA, INFN
3 Standard Training courses for UNICORE and ARC developers and OGF25/EGEE User Forum attendees
1 Advanced Training course for gLite developers
Tutorial of ETICS at BalticGrid Summer School (July 2009)
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14. A-QCM Feedback and improvements
Grid-QCM becomes A-QCM (Automated Quality Certification Model)
Collected feedback from internationally recognised experts
Conferences
Experts
Alain Abran – Software Metrics expert - Professor - Department of Software Engineering & I.T.
Günter Glöe – Certification Expert - TÜV NORD
Kazuhiro Esaki – Industrial Expert - EBARA Corporation
Validation and refinement
Improvements to the Coding Style module according to feedback received
OGF23
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15. A-QCM Other activities
New collaborations
STAR-LAB project run by the University of Genoa in Italy
CTI (Centro de Tecnologia da Informação Renato Archer) an organisation working in the domain of product quality evaluation
Design for the A-QCM report generator interface
Mapping of ETICS guidelines and processes to established standards (ISO/IEC Software Lifecycle Processes)
Analysis of other products/services on the market related to quality verification
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16. Long-term sustainability strategies
Long-term sustainability strategies Exploitable knowledge and its market
Revision and update of exploitable knowledge
ETICS System for building and testing software
Quality Certification Service
Identifcation of the potential target market and motivations
EU and national research projects.
Large software companies
Large research centres
SME associations
Competitors analysis
Cruise Control
Anthill
Bamboo
Continuum
Pulse …
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17. Long-term sustainability strategies ETICS Offer
Identification of a set of potential services
Installation and setting up of the ETICS system
Hosting of the ETICS System
Hosting of ETICS core infrastructure
Quality Certification Service
Testing Services
Support Services
Training
Identification of a possible revenue mechanism
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18. Long-term sustainability strategies Scenarios and the business model
Discussion on possible sustainability scenarios
ETICS after ETICS 2 “commercial entity”
Merge with other consortia or activities
More focused public funded projects
Chosen a Business Model template
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19. Metrics and Statistics
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20. Metrics and Statistics Deliverables
DNA2.1 (Training Plan)
RELEASED
DNA2.2 (Dissemination and Use of Knowledge Plan – first update)
DNA2.3 (ETICS Grid Quality Certification Model Activity Report)
DNA2.4 (First year Analysis of Training and Tuning Activities)
DNA2.5 (Dissemination and use of knowledge plan – second update)
DNA2.6 (Long-term Sustainability Strategy and activity report – first release)
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21. Metrics and Statistics Milestones
MSA2.1 - Public relation and promotional material available OK
MNA2.2 - Training courses and demos available on-line
MNA2.3 - Dissemination events organized (according to dissemination plan)
MNA2.4 - Two projects are issued with a A-QCM certificate (gLite, UNICORE)
Postponed to M18
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22. Metrics and Statistics Year one quality metrics 1/2
Number of new projects registered
in the ETICS System
6 (4)
Friends of ETICS2
80 (50)
Website
Nr. of accesses per month
Nr. of downloads
Nr. of reverse links
667 (100)
Around 200/month
12 (10)
News echos
Press release
News echoes
3 (2)
2 (8)
Number dissemination events
Other Events
Papers
5 (2)
4 (2)
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23. Metrics and Statistics Year one quality metrics 2/2
Number of brochures/flyers/fact sheets
3 (2)
Number posters exhibited in external events
2 (2)
Number of training events and trained people
Training Events
Trained people:
6 (2)
68 (40)
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24. Metrics and Statistics Highlights
6 new projects registered in the ETICS System
Approached by several software professional interested in ETICS
BalticGrid for the organisation of a tutorial
Cosmic Blue Team for organisation of a demo
ARC for more information on A-QCM
Around 700 accesses/month to the project web site
6 well attended training events organised
5 events organised by ETICS team to interested others (2 had been planned)
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25. Challenges NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification
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26. Challenges and issues
Dissemination – no particular challenges need to be reported
Training - development of the training material took longer than expected due to difficulties in recruiting suitable personnel
Trial certifications: the late implementation of the needed A-QCM components implied postponing the start of the trial certifications
Commercial applications requirements: the analysis of the specific requirements highlighted differences in priorities of research and commercial users.
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28. Future Plans
Dissemination towards markets not necessarily Grid related
Hannover Messe on April (
Service Wave 2009
ICCSEA 2009
A-QCM
Improvement and validation through feedback from experts and users
Start activities for presentation to ISO for standardisation
Organisation of targeted workshops for identified potential users
Consolidation of the sustainability strategy
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30. Conclusions Dissemination A-QCM Training Sustainability strategies
Participation to various events
New liaisons created
A-QCM
Implementation well under way
M18 trial certification
Feedback and improvements
Training
New training material available
Trained 68 new developers
Sustainability strategies
Analysis of ETICS and its market
Discussing Business Model options
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