EGI-Engage:AMB-2016-01-13
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Activity Reports
WP1 (NA1) (Yannick Legre)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task NA1.1 Administrative and Financial Management
Task NA1.2 Technical Management
Task NA1.3 Quality and Risk Management
- creating procedures to change Milestones/Deliverables
- risk management revieww interviews
- preparing project report template
- coordinate review process
- working on effort reporting progress
- discussion with CESGA about metrics portal requirements
WP2 (NA2) (Sergio Andreozzi)
Milestones & Deliverables
- D2.6: “Report on data sharing policies and legal framework in fishery and marine sciences data sector” (FAO)
- Confirmed from new FAO appointee that work will continue starting 7 Jan on the report
- They are also contacting some RIs that Gergely put them in contact with
- D2.7: “Market Report on the fishery and marine sciences data sector”
- First draft in progress
- D2.8: “Communications, Dissemination and Engagement Report and Updated Strategy”
- Call held Friday 8 Jan with several team leaders to finalize first draft of ToC, which is available at: https://documents.egi.eu/document/2668
- D2.9: “EGI Sustainability and Business Development Plan”
- ToC available at: https://documents.egi.eu/document/2669
- First draft in progress (initial version should be ready for internal team review by end of week)
- M2.2 “EGI Flagship Events 2015” (previously 'Technical Forum 2015 is organised')
- Final version in review
- Sy is a reviewer, which will be provided by end of week
Task NA2.1 Communication and Dissemination
- Preparations for Krakow 2016: setting up SC meeting, negotiating MoU
- Published new case study
- Website redevelopment: interviews with designer agencies
- Commission design for new EGI banners
- Collecting EGI publications: sending emails
- Impact reporting: first thoughts, collecting examples, methodologies
- eInfra EC booklet: use cases & project description
- Adapting case study collection for the new website
- Review service description and added values for website
Task NA2.2 Strategy, Business Development and Exploitation
- Pay-for-Use
- New e-GRANT testing phase
- Updates underway from full review: https://docs.cyfronet.pl/display/~plgrrozanska/new+e-grant+testing+phase
- Technical and user facing documentation underway
- Production ready version still scheduled for April 2016
- New e-GRANT testing phase
- Business Development
- TEISS (included here as not all effort is funded within the stimulus project, and this work goes towards the overall business development of EGI which seems to be fair game during EC reviews)
- Internal technical meeting
- Milestones clarified - to be discussed during a project call Friday
- FitSM Trainings
- Trying to finalize dates for 2016 calendar (with Yannick)
- Liaison with SURFsara as they working on their overall training programme and interested to understand how FitSM can fit and the role of EGI
- TEISS (included here as not all effort is funded within the stimulus project, and this work goes towards the overall business development of EGI which seems to be fair game during EC reviews)
- Service Management
- 3 individual process implementation meetings held: SPM; CSI; SLM; SRM
- Preparation for full day F2F meeting with Thomas on Thursday 14 Jan “Integrated management system” to review curring ITSM implementation and initial information on moving to ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 20000-1 certification
Task NA2.3 SME/Industry Engagement and Big Data Value Chain
- SME Engagement
- EGI represented through FR-NGI at JRES conference (Dec’15) with large industrial representation: https://www.jres.org/en/exhibitors
- Lessons learnt, opportunities and areas for improvement provided by Genevieve + 1 concrete contact around IPv6 services/support
- UberCloud: initial gathering of EGI FedCloud text to be polished for EGI Store on the UC marketplace
- Post-holiday progress call scheduled for Wed 20 Jan
- EGI represented through FR-NGI at JRES conference (Dec’15) with large industrial representation: https://www.jres.org/en/exhibitors
- Market Analysis
- Main work around deliverables (see Del/MS section above)
- Post-holiday progress call scheduled for Wed 20 Jan
WP3 (JRA1) (Diego Scardaci)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task JRA1.1 Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure
Task JRA1.2 Service Registry and Marketplace
Task JRA1.3 Accounting
OTAG to discuss portal requirements Work on implementation of the navigation in the New Accounting Portal Work on the first/main page on the portal Installed watchdog service to automatically recover from Apache downtimes. Implemented logrotate to avoid out of disk space events. Fixed Path selection filtering on EMI3 Tier1 view. Requested additional SSM queues to maintain several instances on sync.
Task JRA1.4 Operations Tools
GOCDB
- Working on v5.5.1 - Reserved/protected scopes and cascading rules, downtime calendar, multiple custom properties and .properties file upload.
Task JRA1.5 Resource Allocation – e-GRANT
- implementing bugfixes for the new e-GRANT version
- analysis of the reqirements from pay-for-use team
WP4 (JRA2) (Matthew Viljoen)
Milestones & Deliverables
- D4.4 Content is ready and will be ready for review by the end of this week
- D4.5 TOC finalized: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lYXKKL4oJIAiEZ0LZlFWUbgq7DxZ_S6Qp6ZNbSNVk7M/edit
- D4.6 Contributions deadline is next week. TOC finalized: https://docs.google.com/a/egi.eu/document/d/1QHfggB1hmfmZRqsB2mZKxP0WU9sBn7bC0NYM6ncPebM/edit?usp=sharing
Task JRA2.1 Federated Open Data
- Completed document outlining usecases.
- Working on user interface design for open data
Task JRA2.2 Federated Cloud
- Keystone-VOMS release 8.0.0 (Liberty).
- Working with IM developers to evaluate its suitability of it to be used to manage VMs from AppDB
Task JRA2.3 e-Infrastructures Integration
- TOC of D4.5 available
- Started work for D4.6
- Discussion of accounting requirements for D4Science
Task JRA2.4 Accelerated Computing
No progress during Xmas holidays.