Achievements
The first six months since the project kick-off (Feb 2008) have seen OGF-Europe active in a number of events & initiatives that have been supported by extensive outreach to the global community.
Press & Media
- Media Partnerships with iSGTW, British Publishers, On-demand Enterprise (GRIDtoday), HPC Wire, and EnterTheGrid - Primeur Hoise.
- Synergy with GridTalk project for Dissemination (including GridCasts), Grid Impact Reporting, and Policy. OGF23 GridCast OGF23 Blog. This synergy was developed in early 2008 and officially endorsedin March '08.
- Synergy with European projects to push forward standardisation: XtreemOS, a silver member of OGF.
- Extensive coverage of OGF & OGF-Europe with six monthly eAnnouncements, and a wide range of articles and features
- High-profile Media Conference at OGF23. The Media Conference Report - The Impact of Grid Computing
- OGF-Europe Fact Sheet.
International Events - OGF Events
OGF23, 2-6 June 2008, Barcelona, Spain
- Joint organisation of OGF23 with OGF and BEinGRID Industry Days
- First Community Outreach Seminar: Digital Repositories - Interoperability Using Grid Technologies, led by OGF.eeig, within OGF23
- Three In-depth Tutorials, led by INFN.
- Event participation by five Student Scholars from the Student Scholarship programme, led by PSNC
- Inaugural meeting of the OGF-Europe Industry Expert Group, chaired by Fabrizio Gagliardi, Microsoft Research
- Launch of the OGF-Europe User Survey, led by OERC
- OGF-Europe Media Conference & Report, led by OGF.eeig
- Presentation of OGF-Europe at OGF Town Hall session
OGF22, 25-29 February 2008, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Presentation of OGF-Europe during the Welcome Keynote delivered by OGF President Craig Lee on Monday 25 February 2008. David Wallom, Oxford eResearch Centre represented OGF-Europe.
- Promotional & Networking Activities.
- Launch of student scholarship programme, led by PSNC. Four students attended OGF22, meeting members and luminaries from the Grid community.
International Events - e-Infrastructure Concertation Meetings
5th e-Infrastructure Concertation Meeting, 6 June 2008, Barcelona, Spain
- OGF-Europe Presentation by Silvana Muscella, ogf.EEIG,Technical Co-ordinator of OGF-Europe.
- Wrap-up & Conclusions by Silvana Muscella as Technical Co-ordinator of OGF-Europe.
- Networking with experts from EC-funded projects.
4th e-Infrastructure Concertation Meeting, 5-6 December 2007, Sophia Antipolis, France
- OGF Address delivered by Steve Crumb, Executive Director of OGF.
- Active participation at the session on Standards to map EC-funded projects' engagement with standardisation.
- Networking with a large pool of representatives from new EC-funded projects under FP7.
International Conferences on Distributed Computing
8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, May 19-22, 2008, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Lyon, France
- OGF-Europe Presentation by Technical Director, Silvana Muscella
International BES/JSDL/GLUE Workshop
- OGF-Europe supported BES/JSDL/GLUE workshop, 2-4 September 2008, CERN, Switzerland.
Upcoming Events
- EU & Asia-Pacific Grid Collaborations & Future Challenges Workshop & OGF GIN Chartered Working Group Session within OGF24, 15-19 September 2008, Singapore
- OGF25/EGEE User Forum, 2-6 March 2009, Catania, Sicily
- Upcoming Community Outreach Seminars will focus on key issues & sectors for Europe: Green IT & EC Code of Conduct for Data Centres (October 2008); SoI for Telecoms in collaboration with the EU Technology Platform, NESSI, December 2008; Creative Industries Spring 2009; Software Development for Distriuted computiong within OGF25; & Computing for sustainable Intelligent Transport Systems (Autumn 2009).