Grid Technical Working Group
From BeSTGRID
The Grid Technical Working Group is convened to discuss technical requirements related to BeSTGRID's grid middleware.
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[edit] Mailing Lists
- Operators - https://list.auckland.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/bestgrid-operators
- This list is for BeSTGRID site operators, to coordinate with other site operators around New Zealand.
- Grid - https://list.auckland.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/bestgrid-grid
- This list is for those actively involved in developing and implementing BeSTGRID applications and services, coordinated through the BeSTGRID project.
[edit] Meetings
[edit] Recordings Archive
An archive of many meetings is available to watch here: http://media.bestgrid.org/
[edit] Recoding Instructions for TWG convenor
Record the meeting by pressing the Recorder button in the main Koala window and then starting the recorder
To publish the recording:
- Follow instructions in EVOPlayer manual: [1]]
- Open the recording in EVO player: start EVOPlayer from: [2]
- Choose *File* -> *Export* -> *EVXCreator*
- Enter the name of the recording: TWG-YYYY-MM-DD
- Enter source URL on the BeSTGRID Media server: http://media.bestgrid.org/TWG-YYYY-MM-DD/
- Select a folder ($HOME/EVO Recordings) and enter EVX file name - TWG-YYYY-MM-DD.evx
- Upload the EVO recording files (via SCP) to media.bestgrid.org/var/www/html/TWG-YYYY-MM-DD
- Put the EVX file into /var/www/html
- Update /var/www/html/index.html to point to the EVX file (as an argument to EVOPlayer)
[edit] Meeting Notes
- Thursday, August 21, 2008, 1:00pm - notes
- Thursday, September 25, 2008, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, October 30, 2008, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, November 27, 2008, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, January 22, 2009, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, February 26, 2009, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, March 26, 2009, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, April 30, 2009, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, May 28, 2009, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, July 23, 2009, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, August 27, 2009, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, September 24, 2009, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, October 29, 2009, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, November 26, 2009, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, January 28, 2010, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, February 25, 2010, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, March 25, 2010, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, April 29, 2010, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, May 27, 2010, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, June 24, 2010, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, August 5, 2010, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, August 26, 2010, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, September 30, 2010, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, November 4, 2010, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, November 18, 2010, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, November 25, 2010, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, December 16, 2010, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, January 20th, 2011, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, March 3rd, 2011, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, May 26th, 2011, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, June 9th, 2011, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, August 4th, 2011, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, August 18th, 2011, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, October 27th, 2011, 10:00am - notes
- Thursday, November 24th, 2011, 10:00am - notes
[edit] Membership
All contracted technical project members are required to actively participate in the Technical WG, and participation is open to other members of the community working directly with BeSTGRID. If you would like to participate, or know more about this group, please contact us.
Members of the Technical WG include:
- Vladimir Mencl - Chair (Canterbury)
- Andrey Kharuk Advanced eResearch Systems Administrator, Request Authority Operator, Sakai, Wiki, University of Auckland
- Yuriy Halytskyy eResearch Programmer, Identity and Access Management, BeSTGRID Cluster, University of Auckland
- Kevin Buckley (Victoria)
- Stuart Charters (Lincoln)
- Niels Hoffman (Landcare)
- Tim Molteno (Otago)
- Rushad Irani (Massey)
- Aaron Hicks (Landcare Research)
- Dave Crofts (AUT)
- Gene Soudlenkov (AUT)
- Marcus Davy (Otago)
- Stephen Cope (Auckland)
- Guy Kloss (Massey)
- Peter McGavin (IRL)
[edit] Role of the Technical Working Group
- Host a Technical forum: Provide a monthly forum for the hands on technical community and other interested parties to
- discuss current technical work streams;
- mentor other members;
- facilitate technology transfer between sites and institutions;
- replication of capabilities and services;
- share progress, experiences and insights through demonstration and presentation.
- Facilitation & Coordination: Coordinate the focus of every forum session with the Project Manager, with the aim of keeping the technical community aligned with contract and project milestones and progress.
- Communication: Communicate out to both the Steering Committee, and to Operators and Stakeholders, on issues of relevance, and in feeding back on specific requests. This should include
- notices to Stakeholders and Operators on (planned and unplanned) service related issues, changes, outages, etc;
- feedback to the Steering Committee on requests for information and technical advice;
[edit] Responsibilities of the Chair
- Plan in advance all meetings for the remainder of the project, aligned with contract and project deliverables and KPIs.
- Coordinate with Strategy groups on selection of focus areas and agendas.
- Manage meeting schedule
- Coordinate meeting agenda with Project Manager and appropriate presenters
- Promote meeting agenda at least 2 weeks in advance
- Maintain record of meeting attendance, agenda, and discussion
- Report quarterly to Project Manager inline with Contract and Project reporting requirements
