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Second Grid Forum Conference
User Services Work Group

October 19 to October 21, 1999
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois


October 19 and October 20, Break Out Sessions
Co-Chairs: John Towns and Rita Williams
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SUMMARY MINUTES
Issues to Address Prior to this conference the question as to whether a User
Services WG within a grid context was a premature undertaking
was raised. Clearly, before moving forward to comply with the
objectives set forth by the forum for the WGs this issue had
to be resolved.

During the course of the discussion, the group collectively
agreed
that:
* There was a definite need for user advocacy in a grid
environment, and
* To be most effective user services should evolve in tandem
with the other WGs in the forum; therefore,
* Now is the time to devote resources to determining the needs
of a grid user community and moving forward with fulfilling
those needs.

While there was a proposal to establish an interest group for
this topic within the forum thereby eliminating the need to
attend large, face-to-face meetings, the participants choose
to retain the User Services WG.


Preliminary Charter As defined by the WG Chairs in a conference call in September, the charters for the WGs will more closely resemble a mission
statement. Goals, objectives and milestones for the WGs will be
outlined in a separate document.

The following is a preliminary charter proposed by those in
attendance at the conference.

Foster a common understanding of user and support staff requirements
in a grid environment, act as a venue for sharing resources and
facilitate communication for grid activities between users and
support staff and developers.

Further refinement of the mission statement has been left to
be done through e-mail.


Proposed First Year Goals Quite a "laundry list" of tasks were collected: * Identify services required by users to effectively use grid infrastructure and environments * Identify tools required by staff to support the use of grid infrastructure, services and environments * Define requirements and schemas for sharing user support resources utilizing information infrastructure * Identify and make available through a clearing house mechanism: - Important information, - Documentation, - Training resources, - Tools, and - Other resources for users and support staff utilizing technology like the Repository in a Box * Whenever possible, sources of these resources should link back to user support pages * Evangelize developing documentation/training content by developers * Identify user services milestones and needs for supporting user within the life cycle of grid technology at each stage of development * Consciousness raising on user and support levels Due to time constraints this list was not refined or prioritized. Therefore, choosing the tasks that can be accomplished within a year, assigning individuals to the tasks and setting milestones was left to be done either through e-mail and/or subsequent meetings. Goals for February Grid Forum * Have a finalized charter in place * Define first year tasks - Establish priorities - Set requirements - Identify task teams - Have some preliminary work completed Participants Glenn Bresnahan, Boston University Jim Ferguson, NLANR/NCSA Al Gilman, U. of Wisconsin, Trace R&D Center Sridhar Gullapalli, Globus Reagan Moore, NPACI/SDSC George Myers, NASA ARC/Sterling Satoshi Sekiguchi, Electrotechnical Lab/MITI Tracey Smith, ASC MSRC/NRC Jenny To, ARL MSRC/HPTi Steve Quinn, NCSA Leigh Ann Tanner, NASA ARC/MRJ Jenny To, ARL MSRC/HPTi John Towns, NCSA Judith Utley, NASA ARC/MRJ-ERDC MSRC Rita Williams, NASA ARC/MRJ





Please send edits or updates for this working group to virginia@ncsa.uiuc.edu.

Posted November 19, 1999


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