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GGF Community

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Community Mission

Build an international community ofend-users, researchers,

vendors/developers and special interest groups who share common interests and

objectives around the adoption, development and use of Grid technology

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The GGF Community1. End-Users (EU) from research, industry and

academia who use Grid technology for some end purpose, e.g. weather modeling, risk analysis, reservoir modeling, car crash simulation, etc.

2. Researchers, typically computer scientists, who actually research Grid technology itself, e.g. ways to manage data, manage infrastructure resources, manage applications, etc.

3. Vendors and developers who implement standards, architectures and reference models

4. Special Interest Groups (SIGs) may be any combination of EUs, Researchers or Vendors/Developers who have some unique yet common interest, e.g. major Grid projects around the world who want to achieve interoperability between each other, etc.

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Overall Community Objectives

1. Education: Help end-users in research, industry and academia understand and use and understand Grid technology

2. Research: Provide a forum for international researchers to develop and discuss new ideas for Grid technology standardization

3. Requirements: Identify, prioritize and drive end-user requirements into the GGF standards process

4. Adoption: Make GGF standards valuable for vendors & developers to adopt and help them adopt the standards

5. Special Interest: Provide a forum for special interest groups to achieve their unique objectives, e.g. GIN

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Community Objectives and Forums

OBJECTIVES FORUMS1. Education: Help end-users in research,

industry and academia understand and use and understand Grid technology

Enterprise Adoption Forum (EAF)

2. Research: Provide a forum for international researchers to develop and discuss new ideas for Grid technology standardization

Grid Research Forum (GRF)

3. Requirements: Identify, prioritize and drive end-user requirements into the GGF standards process

Voice of the Community (VOC)

4. Adoption: Make GGF standards valuable for vendors & developers to adopt

Vendor Adoption Forum (VAF)

5. Special Interest: Provide a forum for special interest groups to achieve their objectives

1. GIN SIG2. SNIA SIG

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Community Model

End-Users

StandardsGroups

Vendors andDevelopers

Use Cases,Requirements

Architectures and Specifications

Interaction

Flow of Tangibles

Solutionsand

Building Blocks CreateValue

DeliverValue

“MAKE STANDARDS RELEVANT”

“MAKE STANDARDS COST EFFECTIVE TO APPLY”

“MAKE END-USERS SUCCESSFUL”

Prototypes

Researchers

GIN

SNIA

Special

Interest

Groups

(SIG

s)

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VOC and VAF Groups and Interaction

FSI

Auto

Pharma

VOC

Gov

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DRM VAF

Data(others)

Infra Mgnt

SOA

Research

VOC Subgroups

VOC Main Group

VAF Subgroups VOC Main Group

VAF/VOC Common Group

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Proposed Community Structure

• VOC (Voice of the Community) AD*– Financial (chair)– Telco (chair)– Research (chair)– other

• VAF (Vendor Adoption Forum) AD*– Data (chair)– DRM (chair)– SOA (chair)– Virtualization (chair)– Infrastructure Management (chair)– other

• EAF (Enterprise Adoption Forum) AD*– CEO, CFO or general biz level (chair)– CTO, CIO or IT Architect (chair)– IT Sys Admin, Developer (chair)

• GRF (Grid Research Forum) AD*• SIG AD*

– GIN (chair)– SNIA (chair)

* Two ADs per area to ensure redundancy/coverage

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EAF (Enterprise Adoption Forum)

• Consists of EUs1. CEO, CFO or general biz level (i.e. not technical)2. CTO, CIO or IT Architect3. IT Sys Admin, Developer

• Purpose:– Understand Grid technology impact and trends– Learn how to actually apply/use Grid technology

• This becomes “the Enterprise track” for GGFxx

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GRF (Grid Research Forum)

• Consists of researchers, typically computer scientists, who actually research Grid technology itself

• Purpose:– Forum for researchers to meet and discuss ideas

around Grid technology– Develop prototypes– Introduce and “pitch” new ideas to Standards

function

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VOC (Voice of the Community)

• Group(s) of EUs (or EU reps/mindset)• Understand Grid technology so it can be

applied to a model– Use Grid tech to impact biz– Make the biz case/argument for Grid tech

• Capture needs, wants and expectations in the form of Use Cases and Requirements (VOC doc)

• Work with Standards function to represent VOC in the standards development process

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VAF (Vendor Adoption Forum)

• Group(s) of Vendors or developers• Understand Grid technology to fit a biz

model or to build a market• Identify issues and constraints that make it

feasible to adopt standards (VAF doc)• Work with Standards function to represent

issues and constraints in the standards development process

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Community Timeline• GGF17:

– Get VOC and VAF started via BoFs

• GGF18:– Get EAF started as a BoF– Establish VOC and VAF as CGs– Get VOC and VAF subgroups started via BoFs

• GGF19:– One common session for VAF and VOC– Hold CG sessions for select groups from GGF18

BoFs– Hold BoF sessions for any new groups

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Issues

• Who is the right audience to solicit• How to make the sessions more productive

– Translators

• How to solicit participation– Use competitive nature of enterprise

• How to drive and sustain long-term results/interest

• Tie to other events/actives outside GGF

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BACKUP & REFERENCE

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Community Deliverables Rollup

Enterprise Adoption Forum (EAF) 1. Lectures, panels, white papers, BoFs, tutorials on the use of Grid technology

GGF Research Forum (GAF) 1. Panels, BoFs

Voice of the Community (VOC) Forum

Vendor Adoption Forum (VAF)

SNIA SIGGIN SIG

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Success Metrics• High member satisfaction (events and overall)• Year/year growth of end user membership, event

attendance and overall community• High ratings on event content• End-user success stories and references in terms of:

– being helped in understanding and use of Grid technology, – value of participating in GGF overall– value delivered by Grid technology

• Growth in number and size of VOC groups• Positive PR/AR on value of GGF to end-users and

vendors• Growth of VAF• High VAF member satisfaction (events and overall)• Vendor success stories and references (e.g. usability

tests of OGSA)

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Overall Community Deliverables

• Provide content for GGF events– Help attendees understand and use Grid technology

• Build Voice-of-the-Community (VOC) groups across key verticals– Establish interaction mechanism with Standards function

to drive VOCs into the GGF standards process

• Establish Vendor Adoption Forum (VAF) to champion efforts to make GGF standards valuable for software suppliers & developers to adopt– Establish interaction mechanism with Standards function

to drive VAF results into the GGF standards process

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Objectives & Measures – Community

1. Establish and grow international research and industry communities

o GGF and non-GGF events forumso Recruit/retain memberso International regionso Recruit thought leaders and key orgs

• High member satisfaction (events and overall)• Year/year growth of overall community• Event content (GGF16, GGF17, GGF18, etc.)

2. Help end users understand and use Grid technology

o Docso Event content

• Year/year growth of end user membership and event attendance

• High end user member satisfaction (events and overall)• End user success stories and references• Event content (GGF16, GGF17, GGF18, etc.)

3. Identify, prioritize and drive requirements and use cases into the GGF standards process

o Voice-of-the-Community (VOC)o Drive VOCs into standards processo Major Grid projects communityo Development of prototypes

• VOCs for Finance, Pharma and Telcom• Cadence with standards group to vet VOCs• VOCs sessions at GGF16, GGF17 and GGF18

4. Champion efforts to make GGF standards valuable for software suppliers & developers to adopt

o Economic factors of adoptiono Suppliers/developers & open source

• GGF Vendor Adoption Forum established• Year/year growth of vendor membership and event

attendance• High vendor member satisfaction (events and overall)• Vendor success stories and references (e.g. usability tests of

OGSA)• Vendor sessions at GGF16, GGF17 and GGF18

Objectives Measures

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GGF Community CouncilRobert Fogel Intel vc communities

Gwen Nichols-White GGF Community Program Manager

Satoshi Matsuoka Tokyo Inst. of Technology research apps

Thilo Kielmann Free University of Amsterdam research apps

Craig Lee the Aerospace corporation industrial apps

Bob Cohen Economic Strategy Institute industrial apps

Ken Klingenstein Internet2 (US) grid operations

Charlie Catlett Argonne National Lab grid operations

DeRoure, David Univ of Southhampton, UK tech innovators

Dennis Gannon Univ Indiana, US tech innovators

Wolfgang Gentzsch MCNC, D-Grid and RENCI major grid projects

Victor Alesandrini IDRIS (Fr) major grid projects

Alan Blatecky Univ. of NC major grid projects

Geoffrey Fox Univ Indiana, US community affairs

Hai Jin Huazhong Univ, Wuhan, China major grid projects – China

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Community F2F Jan’06 Results(pg 1 of 2)

• New Community Areas and rethinking existing Community Areas

• Socialize Vendor Adoption Forum Concept at GGF16

• Socialize VOC to Telco-CG at GGF16• Vendor Adoption Forum BoF at GGF17• Vendor Adoption Forum 1st Meeting at GGF18• Establish GCAB by GGF17• Establish Standards/Community interaction

team

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Community F2F Jan’06 Results(pg 2 of 2)

• Accreditation of GGF documents • Research gap analysis (what are the topics

that we’re not covering)• Co-locate with academic conferences• Major Grid Project Directory• Develop ways of collaboration among major

grid projects (e.g., in the area of migrating to new software releases)

• Establish a means for exchanging grid technology components

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Overall Community Deliverables• Provide content for both GGF and non-GGF events to help end-

users understand and use Grid technology• Provide content for both GGF and non-GGF events to help

vendors understand GGF and GGF standards• Recruit/retain Community members• Establish international Community regions• Recruit thought leaders and key orgs• Build Voice-of-the-Community (VOC) groups across all key

verticals• Use VOC documents to identify, prioritize end-user

requirements and use cases• Establish close interaction with Standards Function to drive

VOCs into the GGF standards process• Make VOCs documents easily/readily available• Establish Vendor Adoption Forum (VAF) to champion efforts to

make GGF standards valuable for software suppliers & developers to adopt

• Use VAF to drive GGF standards adoption