EMI is partially funded by the European Commission under Grant Agreement RI-261611

NA2 : Outreach and Training

Emidio Giorgio, INFNNA2 Leader

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• NA2 Objectives• Recommendations from 1st review• 2nd year strategy– Achievements

• Toward 3rd year : conclusions and outlook

Overview

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• Objective 4: Strengthen the participation and support for user communities in the definition and evolution of middleware services –Sub-objective 4.1: Establish a dissemination plan to make the

objectives and achievements of the EMI project known and a sustainable training and knowledge exploitation plan to integrate the results of the project in the long-term activities of EGI, PRACE and other DCIs and transfer knowledge and competences to community and commercial initiatives–Associated Y2 deliverables and milestones

NA2 objectives

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Recommendations from Y1 review

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“Improve online promotion and marketing to increase traffic to website so that many more people will use the website than the currently reported numbers.”

“Improve the website, taking into consideration the suggestions made elsewhere in this review report.”

Actions

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• Web presence– web site revamping– New channel : social (Google Plus, Facebook), high level video

• Dissemination – promotion of EMI through the web site

• Publications – EMI Technical conference proceedings – Production of dissemination content– Factsheets

• Training

2nd year strategy

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New channels

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See References [1-5]

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Attended Events

International Super Computing 2011

WLCG Collaboration Workshop

EGI Technical Forum

Super Computing 2011

OGF 33/34

Hepix 2011

Cloudscape IV

International Symposium on Grid and Cloud Computing 2012

International Conference Research Infrastructures 2012

EGI Community Forum 2012 /EMI Second Technical Conference

CHEP 2012

Dissemination

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Dissemination Material

A0 Posters (10) Brochure 2012

High level videos (2) Bookmark

Banner EMI Online Conference Survey (2)

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Web content

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Articles on EMI web site

EMI and UMD Middleware - Standardization

Data Area: Data evolutions in Matterhorn

Security Token Services

Content for other magazines

EMI 1 Kebnekaise released by EGI as UMD 1.0.0.

EMI has a new e-infrastructure client: iMarine

EMI and IGE

Getting-to-bottom

EMI and OpenSource

EGI Community Forum Tuesday

Leading Publication of “Proceedings of EGI Community Forum 2012 – 2nd EMI technical conference”Proceeding of Science – SiSSA ~60 contributions

See References [6-11]

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Web presence

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Web accesses overview

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2011 2012 Trend

Visits 5160 12484 +141,94%

Unique Visitors 2179 4868 +123,41%

Pageviews 17,406 40238 +131,17 %

Trends comparison Nov 2010 - Apr 2011

Nov 2011 - Apr 2012

Top 5 visited pages• Products• Emi-1-kebnekaise

• Documentation

• Releases

• Emi-1-kebnekaise-updates

Top 5 search keyword • Emi middleware

• emi

• Emi grid

• European middleware initiative• Configure LB WMS same host

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• In reach –Debian packaging tutorial–EMI 2 QA policies changes

• Out reach– DCISS 2011 : Basic and

advanced end users training– GridKa school for sysadmin– EGI TF : End users tutorial – Second EMI Technical Conference • Sysadmin and developer sessions featuring EMI 2

highlights (WNoDeS, EMI-ES, ARGUS API)

• Material available on the EMI Web Site [R14]– Synchronized with EGI repository

Training

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KPI Target Y2Number of international events organised

2 1

Number and type of published material

4 63[1]

Number of training events 4 7

Key Performance Indicators

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• Consolidation of Y2 achievements• Support the transition from project to collaboration– ScienceSoft

• Future events– OGF 35/36 – EGI Technical Forum 2012– EMI event 2013

• Training– webinars – document deployment scenarios– Joint training with EGI/NGI

Conclusion and outlook

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• Questions ?

Thanks for listening

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• [R1] http://www.eu-emi.eu• [R2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Middleware_Initiative• [R2] https://plus.google.com/b/114072116403500894509/me• [R3] http://www.youtube.com/user/emieurope• [R4] http://www.flickr.com/photos/emi-eu/• [R5] http://cordis.europa.eu/wire/index.cfm?fuseaction=article.Detail&rcn=27571&rev=0• [R6] http://www.isgtw.org/announcement/emi-has-new-e-infrastructure-client-imrine• [R7] http://gridtalk-project.blogspot.it/2012/03/emi-ige-together-we-stand-divided-we.html• [R8] http://gridtalk-project.blogspot.it/2012/03/getting-to-bottom.html• [R9] http://gridtalk-project.blogspot.it/2012/03/emi-and-opensource.html• [R10] http://gridtalk-project.blogspot.it/2012/03/egi-community-forum-first-day.html• [R11] http://www.eu-emi.eu/further-readings• [R12] http://www.eu-emi.eu/3rd-inreach-deb-packaging-webcast• [R13] http://www.eu-emi.eu/emi-2-updated-policy-changes-webcast• [R14] http://www.eu-emi.eu/training

References

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