WP2 – Engagement and Dissemination

HN Annual ReviewDr. Giles Hogben

Cloud Security Alliance, EMEA

1This document produced by Members of the Helix Nebula consortium is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://helix-nebula.eu/. The Helix Nebula project is co-funded by the European Community Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under Grant Agreement no 312301

WP ObjectivesThe purpose of WP2 is to communicate that HELIX NEBULA – the Science Cloud - is the beginning of a new infrastructure being built in Europe through Public/Private Partnership and the benefits that will bring.

Specific goalsPresent policy-makers, funding agencies and infrastructure operators with an effective alternative to capital-intensive investment in e-infrastructuresEncourage scientists to see this "Science Cloud" as their first choice of working environment by demonstrating that concerns about putting research data and software ‘on the cloud’ are being addressed sensiblyMobilise the supplier community (especially telecoms providers, the IT industry and innovative SMEs) to participate and benefit from the public/private partnershipEnsure that publicity about HELIX NEBULA is positive and focuses on the efficiencies it brings to the research communities and the societal benefits that can result.

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Effort ContributionLead Beneficiary: CSA EMEA

Person-Months per Participant

Participant Person-months

EGI.eu 3.00

EMBL 1.00

T-Systems 1.00

Atos 3.00

CloudSigma 1.00

SAP 1.00

Logica Germany

1.00

CNR 1.00

CSA EMEA 15.00

TOTAL 27WP2

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WebsiteFlagship use casesHow to become a member of the HN communityEvents Highlights updated with related articlesAnnouncements and newsRegistration to NewsletterDirect link to the HN accounts in the social networksHN material online: HN video and interviews, as well as the HN flyer.

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WP2 Deliverables and Milestones – Period 1

Type Del. no Name Nature Dissemination level

Date Delivered

Deliverable 2.1 Communication Plan Report PU 05/09/2012

Milestone 5 Short-term Delivery-planning is complete

Report PU 11/12/2012

Milestone 6 Communication plan delivery

Report PU 19/06/2013

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Branding materials

Helix Nebula website graphic design templates (M1) Helix Nebula PowerPoint Presentation Template (M1) Helix Nebula deliverable templates (M1) Helix Nebula flyer (M5) Helix Nebula newsletter template (M4)

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Overall modifications, corrective actions, re-tuning of objectives

D2.1 Communication Plan updated withfeedback from T-Systems

Refined list of stakeholders compared to communication plan published in M3Engagement plan

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Scientific/technical achievements and their impact

Helix Nebula Architecture: 544 downloadsStrategic Plan for a Scientific Cloud Computing infrastructure for Europe: 282 downloadsCommunication Plan: 137 downloadsRequirements Template: 115 downloads

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Helix Nebula initiative members

Helix Nebula Users Helix Nebula AdoptersHelix Nebula Suppliers

Atos

CloudSigma

Cloud Security Alliance

Dante - Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe

European Grid Infrastructure

Interoute

Logica

SAP

SixSq

T-Systems

Terradue

The Server Labs

European Organisation for Nuclear Research

European Molecular Biology Laboratory

European Space Agency

Centre National d'Études Spatiales

German Aerospace Center

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment at the National Research Council

AWST - Applied Science, Software and Technology

Capgemini

Orange

Telefonica

Thales

Trust-IT ServicesSwitch

OpenNebula

Ifremer

CNRS

Trinity College Dublin

Visio Terra – Science Consulting for Earth Observation

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Significant communication results: 14 new partners including 3 new candidates demand-side stakeholders + additional interest in membership

Communication ActivitiesHelix Nebula website complete 3 Helix Nebula articles published by the HN consortium3 newsletters24 articles written by outside organizations (HPC, ISGTW, CORDIS news etc)HPC Top Ten cloud initiativesGigaOM network broadcasted video on HN.Monthly calls

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Online Presence

31 videos (including ESRIN HN Public event ‘Results and Engagement’)30 interviews/articles (including at GigaOM Structure Data in October 2012)

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Social Media MetricsFacebook: - 286 total likes - 91.980 friends of fans - 178 Weekly Total Reach

Twitter: - 50 re-tweeted posts from January-June 2013 - 53 other accounts’ tweets mention Helix Nebula - 46 new followers from January-June 2013

LinkedIn: - From 122 to 137 members (31% senior, 20% managers, 11% Entry, 8% CXO, 8% Director, 7% owner)

- 15 on-going discussions

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Website Analytics

Total page views across all pages on the site from June 2012-June 2013: 28.578Using Google analytics and CMS

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Peak 1 in the website visits coincides with the public event ‘Results and Engagement’ and second general assembly, ESRIN Frascati, Italy from 16 - 18 January 2013

Website Analytics

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Peak 2: Helix Nebula consortium represented at strategic events organised by key stakeholders and the EC:The Future in the Cloud – A Finnish Edge, March 25, Kajaani, Finland. CERN introduced the idea of a forum of national communities to contribute to national cloud strategy plans.The management team presented its Horizon 2020 recommendation paper: Taking Helix Nebula to the Next Level: The transition from Pilot Phase to Viable Service at DG-CONNECT, Excellence in Science on 08 March 2013.The 2013 European Cloud Computing Conference, 7 March, BrusselsThe 10th e-Infrastructure Concentration Meeting in Brussels on the 6th and 7th of MarchTERENA storage task force meeting, 5th March 2013, Berlin

Dissemination ActivitiesEvents Participation- Visibility- New partner members- Commercial, social project impactParticipated in 44 events:

- Policy makers, eScience end users, industry (4 events, e.g. RSA Conference, San Francisco, USA, 25 January-01 March 2013, RSA Europe 2012)

- Industry, government and research communities (5 events, e.g. EC Workshop on Towards an EU strategy of Cloud computing for government and science, Brussels, 26 November 2012, Cloudscape V, Brussels, Feb 2013 )

- Industry and Service Providers (3 events: e.g.ISACA INSIGHTS, Berlin, 11 June 2013)

- European eResearch (4 events, e.g. 10th e-Infrastructure Concentration Meeting, Brussels, 06-07 March 2013, )

- Academia & industry, Science and research (3 events, e.g. ISC Cloud’12, Mannheim, Germany, 24 September 2012) etc.- At least 11 more upcoming events

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Interaction with other FP7 projectsand stakeholders outside the consortium

HN Presented to:A4CloudCUMULUSCIRRUSCSA membership – e.g. at CSA events.

Potential new supply and demand-side members

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Regular high-level interaction with the EC

eIRG workshops (Copenhagen, June 2012 & Dublin, June 2013)DCI workshop, Prague, September 2012Clouds for Science and Public Authorities workshop, Brussels Nov 2012eConcentration meeting, Brussels, March 2013European Cloud Computing Conference, March 2013Dedicated meeting with DG-CONNECT & DG-RTD (March 2013) to present expanded version of “Helix Nebula: the Science Cloud : A Catalyst for Change in Europe” report – focusing on the key potential role of HN in Horizon 2020

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