EGI-InSPIRE:User Services Advisory Group

The User Services Advisory Group (USAG) has representatives from the user communities and from the developer teams of user-facing services to discuss and advice on the evolution of user tools and requirement gathering processes.

Meetings and Minutes

• User Services Advisory Group teleconference 24/11/2010: https://www.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=223

• Terms of Reference (draft)
• Mailing list

List of USAG Members

• Chair: Leader of TNA3.3 task (NGI User Support Teams), Gergely Sipos/EGI.eu
• Secretary, Maria Dimou/CERN
• Representing the customers of user-facing services:
  • User Community Board Chair: Steve Brever/EGI.eu
  • Two VRC representatives to be selected by the UCB to represent the interests of the Virtual Research Communities
• A representative from the Heavy User Communities: Jamie Shiers/CERN
• Representative of the SA3 (Heavy User Communities) work package: Maria Girone/CERN
• Representing the developers and providers of user-facing services:
  • The NA3 Technical Services task leader: Marios Chatziangelou/IASA
  • Training Services: David Fergusson/UEDIN
  • Applications Database: William Vassilis Karageorgos/IASA
  • VO Services: Ignacio Blanquer/UPV, Gonçalo Borges/LIP
  • GGUS helpdesk: Torsten Antoni, Helmut Dres, Guenter Grein /KIT
  • Operations Portal: Hélène Cordier, Cyril Lorphelin /IN2P3
• Representative of Operations (SA1): Tiziana Ferrari/EGI.eu

• USAG Documents

Name of the user tool	Link to current production release	List of requirements, feature requests collected from users	How can additional requirements be submitted?	Expected date and version number of next release	Workplan and planned features of next release
Training services
Application Database
VO services
GGUS helpdesk
Operations Portal