Benefits of Engagement with OGF-Europe

OGF-Europe is committed to engaging with distributed computing communities across Europe, both current and future users. By interacting with players from diverse industry sectors and scientific domains, OGF-Europe aims to ensure that the standards work ongoing within OGF is catered to real-world user problems. OGF-Europe Reports focus on the main outcomes of events & user surveys to help steer standardisation in the right direction.

Benefits of Engaging with OGF-Europe

Community Outreach Seminars place a strong emphasis on best practices adopted by specific user groups, fostering knowledge exchange and demonstrating the major value that distributed computing bring to businesses and the scientific communities. Seminars are designed to address issues and sectors that are important to Europe, such as Digital Repositories, Green IT, Telecommunications, Creative Industries, Software Develpment and Intelligent Transport Systems.

In-depth Tutorials provide an avenue through which OGF-Europe can inform current and potential users about how OGF conforms, or is working to conform, to various Web and Grid specifications. This can assist users in making informed choices as to whether the speifications meet user requirements and will integrate well with other products they require. Tutorials target developers & IT decision-makers that already adopt or are interested in deploying distributed computing technology in their organisation. Participants come away with in-depth knowledge of technical specifications and a better understanding of the business value of distributed computing.

International Events offer a prime opportunity to broaden the discussion on adoption and standardisation at key conferences addressing a truly global community. These events feature enterprise & eScience best practices seminars, showcase real-world applications and user studies, offering an opportunity to network with OGF and experts to foster strong relationships with actors from diverse fields. The 1st International Event was set within OGF23, 2-6 June 2008, Barcelona, Spain in collaboration with OGF and BEinGRID Industry Days. The 2nd International Events takes place with OGF25, 2-6 March 2009 in Catania, Sicily, in conjunction with the EGEE User Forum.

Surveys on Building & Operating Distributed Computing Technologies offer Grid adopters from EU the chance to profile their organisation in terms of Grid adoption, pinpoint key issues and requirements to help map top priorities across different markets and steer future Grid development in the right direction.

Dieter Kranzmueller engages with the OGF community at OGF23