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Overview of Virtual Team projects

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This page provides information about the "Virtual Team framework", the "NGI International Liaison" and the Virtual Team projects that exist in EGI.


Context

In 2011 the EGI-InSPIRE project revised the user engagement activities of the project and defined a new structure for the NA2 work package in an updated Description of Work. The purpose of the restructuring is to improve the efficiency and flexibility of the interaction between the NGIs, EGI.eu and other organisations to achieve common goals in the field of "Engaging with New User Communities" (NA2 is titled Engaging with New User Communities).

The new structure consists of two key elements:

  1. Virtual Team framework: The Virtual Team framework enables NGI and EGI.eu persons to initiate and participate in short living projects (Virtual Team projects) that focus on well defined, non-operational activities around the production infrastructure. These activities cover areas like Marketing & Communication; Strategic Planning and Policy Support; Community outreach and events for new users; Technical outreach and support to new communities. The VT project framework was developed within the NA2 activity of the EGI-InSPIRE project, but it is open for NGIs, countries and regions that do not work in NA2 or are not in EGI-InSPIRE. These entities can join existing Virtual Teams or propose new Virtual Teams.
  2. NGI International Liaisons:

The interaction between the NGI teams and EGI.eu on non-operational activities is undertaken through an NGI International Liasion, who is responsible within the NGI for the delivery and interaction of non-operational tasks.


Virtual Teams enable on the following non-operational activities:

  • Marketing & Communication
  • Strategic Planning and Policy Support
  • Community outreach and events for new users
  • Technical outreach and support to new communities

Virtual Teams can be established and used to enable the development of a strategy for the long-term evolution of EGI, or to significantly increase both the diversity and quantity of users and communities exploiting the infrastructure for world class research. The application of the framework is limited only by the scope and imagination of the NGIs to commit resources to any particular goal.

What is a Virtual Team?

It is foreseen that different members of EGI want to participate in different types of targeted activities that directly or indirectly relate to engagement with new users. The skills needed for EGI to successfully engage as a community with new users exist in many different organisations within EGI-InSPIRE and in the broader EGI ecosystem. The individuals with these skills will be brought together in Virtual Teams. Virtual Teams provide a flexible and dynamic means to rapidly bring together certain members of the community for a well defined series of tasks to meet a specific need that needs to be achieved in a relatively short period of time (on the order of weeks or months) before being disbanded. The focus of these Virtual Teams will be to either directly increase the number of EGI users (e.g. through integrating a new application) or indirectly (e.g. by raising the profile of EGI and an NGI through a NGI hosted event for its users).



November 2011 the EGI-InSPIRE project works few months we will be establishing a network of ‘NGI International Coordinators’ that will help build this vital aspect of our community. The initial phase of this work will be in defining the strategies that will be adopted to engage new user communities both locally and at a European level. Growing the diversity and usage of our user community will help to demonstrate the importance of further investment nationally and within Europe.


Who are the NGI International Liaisons?

NGI International Liaison's name Deputy's name (if any)
Netherlands Tom Visser -

Processes

Joining an existing Virtual Team

Establishing a new Virtual Team


Current VTs

Finished VTs

Further information

The New NA2: Engaging with new user communities