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This page is the "internal wiki" of NA3. It serves as an area where ideas, suggestions, useful information, links can be collected. The activity management contributes, as well as monitors the content of the page and incorporates contents from here into the EGI user support processes.

Please note that because this page can be read by anybody, sensitive information should be collected in separate documents with restricted accessibility (e.g. a GoogleDoc) and only links to these documents should be inserted here!


Wiki Publisher

The Sun Wiki Publisher enables you to create Wiki articles on MediaWiki servers without having to know the syntax of the MediaWiki markup language. Publish your new and existing documents transparently with the Writer to a wiki page.

An empty test space was created to send the OOO files to. After some testing, we are still not able to do this ...

FAQ

Task : collect FAQs relevant to UCST

1) http://faq.eu-egee.org/

other: http://www.gridcomputing.com/gridfaq.html


EGI User's FAQ

"What is..."


1)What is EGI ?

European Grid Infrastructure

2)What is NGI ?

National Grid Infrastructure/Initiative

3)What is VO ?

A VO(Virtual Organization) is a group of researchers with similar interests and requirements, who are able to work collaboratively with other members and/or share resources (e.g. data, software, expertise, CPU, storage space) regardless of geographical location.

4)What is VRC ?

A VRC(Virtual Research Community) is groups of researchers, typically residing in more than one country, working together effectively through the use of information and communications technology (ICT) and having an effective coordination model that can articulate prioritised requirements and other needs on behalf of the community.

5)What is personal grid certificate ?

Everyone using grid has his personal grid certificate to get resources and for the authentication and authorization reasons, for more details please read about the mechanisms X.509(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.509) and SSL(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer) used.


"How to..."


1)How to start using EGI ?

You can find useful information at EGI.eu User Support section and also you need to attend EGI.eu training events those could be organized in your country, for the up to date events list please use events webpage(http://training.egi.eu/)

2)How to get personal grid certificate ?

To obtain a personal grid certificate that authenticates the user within the grid infrastructure and grants access to computing, storage and other types of resources you need to do it through the local grid Certificate Authority(CA) of your country, which can be found through the webpage of the International Grid Trust Federation(http://www.igtf.net/).

3)How to find details about all applications used at EGI ?

You need to visit applications database webpage(http://appdb.egi.eu/) where the all applications are fully described

4)How to find details about all NGIs ?

You need to visit EGI.eu website (http://egi.eu/production-infrastructure/Resource-providers/) to get the full list of NGIs.

5)How to find details about all VOs ?

You need to use VOlist(http://operations-portal.in2p3.fr/vo/vOlist) interface to extract relevant information about VOs.

6)How to join VO ?

Each VO have they one rules for joining and various User Accept Policies, you should contact the VO manager of the VO you want to join

7)How to create VO ?

You should ask for a new VO to be set up if none of the existing VOs is relevant for your scientific domain by contacting the user community support team at community-support (at) egi.eu.

8)How to create VRC ?

9)How to report an issue ?

EGI User Community Support Unit can be reached by filling the GGUS.org ticket for day-to-day issues.

User Feedbacks and recommendations gathering

1) EGI.eu google form spreadsheet

Example of forms to gather information:

User Story (View live form)

Assess requirements (View live form)

How to style google forms - http://www.morningcopy.com.au/tutorials/how-to-style-google-forms/

Embed slides into mediawiki - http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/Iframe

2) RT

Request Tracker - rt.egi.eu

3) GGUS

ggus.org

4) blogging

blog & comments & votes & RSS feeds

5) survey service

i.e. zoomerang

Source Of Requirements

From: EGI TF 2010 Summary

From: EEF 2010

From: HealthGrid

From: OGF

EEF - European E-infrastructure Forum

EEF homepage - http://www.einfrastructure-forum.eu/

EEF Work documents - https://documents.egi.eu/public/ListBy?topicid=1

2010, ESFRI Projects requirements report by EEF - https://documents.egi.eu/public/ShowDocument?docid=12

2008, ESFRI Projects requirements report by EEF - http://www.einfrastructure-forum.eu/documents/EEF-report

Members:

ESFRI Projects

Requirements of Communities observed at EGI TF 2010 Summary

Reasearch Infrastructures (RIs) - http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=projects

Existing Infrastructures

Reasearch Infrastructures funded under FP7 - http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=ri_projects_fp7

List created on 2010-10-04

Engineering and Energy:

Life Sciences:

Social Sciences and Humanities:

Environmental and Earth Sciences:

Materials Sciences & Analytical Facilities:

Mathematics and Computer Sciences:

Physics and Astronomy:

New Infrastructures (or major upgrades of existing ones)

New Research Infrastructures(RIs) in preparation phase - http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=preparatory_phase_projects

List created on 2010-10-04

Biological and Medical Sciences:

e-infrastructures:

Energy:

Environmental Sciences:

Materials and Analytical Facilities:

Physical Sciences and Engineering:

Social Sciences and Humanities:

Particle Physics:

Fields of Science

Fields of Science - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_of_science

User Related Links

VO & Operations Portal

Old Operations Portal

Central Operations Portal

[Regional Operations Portals]

User interfaces & portals & tools

http://appdb.egi.eu/

Monitoring

Mon Tools website

Dashboard

Gstat

GridMap

GridView

[MyEGI]

Usability inspection

Apple Human Interface Guidelines

Task-Centered User Interface Design

Usability Study