EGI-Engage:AMB-2016-02-10

EGI-Engage project:	Main page	WP1(NA1)	WP3(JRA1)	WP5(SA1)	PMB	Deliverables and Milestones	Quality Plan	Risk Plan	Data Plan
	Roles and responsibilities	WP2(NA2)	WP4(JRA2)	WP6(SA2)	AMB	Software and services	Metrics	Project Office	Procedures

Activity Reports

WP1 (NA1) (Yannick Legre)

Dissamination reports

Task NA1.2 Technical Management

• Finalization of the EGI Conference 2016 programme
• Planning of the III workshop on the Open Science Cloud
• Planning of meeting on Data as a Service (Feb)
• Planning of meeting on Open Science (Feb)
• Revision of TCB structure and composition and discussion with the EB

WP2 (NA2) (Sergio Andreozzi)

Dissemination reports

Milestones & Deliverables

• D2.6: “Report on data sharing policies and legal framework in fishery and marine sciences data sector” (FAO)
  • interviewed key experts, drafting deliverable, attended RDA/CODATA legal interoperability call
    • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bKqccKNCeu-xsMpsrC5tL_xr7iqad8fYUYHdVn0b7Nk/edit?ts=56ba1724#gid
  • document ready for external review planned for end of February, deviation due to delay in hiring key expert
• D2.7: “Market Report on the fishery and marine sciences data sector”
  • Full internal review provided (SH)
  • Currently In external review (deadline 15 Nov): https://documents.egi.eu/document/2700
• D2.8: “Communications, Dissemination and Engagement Report and Updated Strategy”
  • Collation of content from activity contributions
  • Full internal review
  • Developed draft for external review sent on 9 Feb
• D2.9: “EGI Sustainability and Business Development Plan”
  • Restructuring of content to better match implementation of strategy - current draft of content available (v7): https://documents.egi.eu/document/2669

Task NA2.1 Communication and Dissemination

• Preparations for Krakow 2016: Development of Programme Committee, Naming & Branding
• Website redevelopment: paperwork, development of sitemap
• New EGI banners: ordering
• Collecting EGI publications: reminders and collecting input
• eInfra EC booklet: use cases & project description
• Adapting case study collection for the new website
• Review service description and added values for website
• Newsletter 22: published
• Newsletter 23: line-up preparations
• Amsterdam 2016: programme & registration online, logistics

Task NA2.2 Strategy, Business Development and Exploitation

• Strategic Planning and Evaluation
• Service & Solution Strategy
  • Defined plan for ISO 9000/20000 certification for EGI.eu
    • 12 Jan: Full day F2F meeting with Thomas on “Integrated management system” to review ITSM implementation and initial information on moving to ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 20000-1 certification
  • Setting up of Integrated Management System
  • Developed session for "Managing service portfolios for research in Europe" for the EGI Conference
  • Collaboration with other e-infrastructure related projects to develop a joint definition for a common catalogue of services (2 calls, editing of joint document)
  • Collaboration with e-Infrastructure unit of DG Connect on booklet for e-Infrastructure services (2 calls, preparation of material)
• Cross-border procurement of e-Infrastructure services
  • Developed agenda for April conference
• Pay-for-Use
  • Checklist meeting planned with operations for moving into production
  • Next meeting scheduled for Friday 19 Feb
• 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)
    • 26 Jan Call: Internal integration update meeting
    • Several rounds of testing with SlipSteam and Cyfronet
    • 8 Feb Call: update on testing issues
    • Finalizing first invoice based on completed timesheets
  • FitSM Trainings
    • Finalize first round of trainings: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dC5N1m2Oc7l2vYTQmGEAL8HSqpZRWz6IgAkkqANB39U/edit
      • Webpages and promotion to be done once deliverables are sent
    • GEANT: F2F meeting scheduled for 10 Feb to introduce FitSM

Task NA2.3 SME/Industry Engagement and Big Data Value Chain

• SME Engagement
  • 27 Jan Call with INFN to advance activities
  • 28 Jan Call with CloudSME https://docs.google.com/document/d/1npH2rwgsDDL5RTpygeToJ0L_by54BmcydI9L4-_D9lM/edit
    • Mail sent to P4U and SME engagement list for expressions of interest
      • 4 received so far: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Pe7xhMJlJ73w3BLQAXzKh-h_6KavI1sZ03EUTp3BLJM/edit
  • 3 Feb Group Call: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fAfIQ7KK7gh3-Hcu_8_NA9BtffnYbM5AbJOH_C5WQ0A/edit
  • Contributions from all partners provided for D2.8 (see deliverable section)
• Market Analysis
  • Call 29 Jan to follow up on progress: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1krXkXj85w3cis8o0FoQA6XgaHRGyzIFAnQ3WDQvtjzM/edit
  • Main work around deliverables (see deliverable section)

WP4 (JRA2) (Matthew Viljoen)

Dissamination reports

Milestones & Deliverables

• D4.4 In final review
• D4.5 In final review
• D4.6 In final review

Task JRA2.1 Federated Open Data

• Implementation of snapshot support in Onedata for generation of static open data sets.
• Meeting with Nanjiang Shu from BILS who have open data they want to share across the fedcloud and intereseted to trail OpenData platform.

Task JRA2.2 Federated Cloud

• NTR (Enol away until next week)

Task JRA2.3 e-Infrastructures Integration

• OOI paper published: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711016000029
• Useful meetings in Rome at EUDAT-UF with EPOS, ICOS over their EUDAT/EGI interoperability usecases

Task JRA2.4 Accelerated Computing

• Finalised contribution to D4.6
• Definition of the Accelerated Computing Session at EGI Conferece. Asked contributions to three communities: positive answers from MoBrain and Lifewatch communities, no answer from INAF-CTA so far.

WP5 (SA1) (Peter Solagna)

Dissamination reports

Milestones & Deliverables

• D5.1 in preparation first draft. Status 70%
• D5.2 in preparation first draft. Status 50%
  • Survey among NILs/NGIs has not produced results so far.

Task SA1.1 Operations Coordination

• Follow up with ARGO team for deployment of central monitoring
• Follow up with APEL team for the deploymeny of storage accounting (continous delays)
• Follow up with Ops Portal for the GSTAT-replacement features
• Proposed a plan for the integration of cloud probes in the official EGI A/R tables
• Agreement with dCache developers for an extension of support of a release close to end of life
• Finalization of the phase2 core activities budget
• First draft of PROC23 for the deployment of new releases of production services
• Assessment status of WMS support
  • INFN suggests to plan a phase out of the product

Task SA1.2 Development of Security Operations

• Collection of the first round of assessments for the security threats risk

Task SA1.3 Integration, Deployment of Grid and Cloud Platforms

• ESA/Terradue explotation platform integration: in progress
  • Successful tests in Bari
  • Contacting GWDG German site for the geohazard datasets. The preference is to keep them in Germany.
  • Development of the OCCI driver by Terradue
• Long tail of science
  • Assessment of the open actions
  • Collection of use cases from NGIs, in progress

WP6 (SA2) (Gergely Sipos)

Dissemination reports