Date

, Amsterdam Office.  2pm CEST.

Attendees

Apologies

 

 

Goals

  • Slightly delayed kick-off meeting for Task Force and SIG coordination to confirm current planning arrangements for TFs and SIGs and look at how changes can be introduced to better support reporting, planning and promotion of TFs and SIGs.

Discussion items

TimeItemWhoNotes
15 minutesReview of current work allocations.All 
30 minutesReview of current workplan for the GN4 Task.All

TF-Storage to recharter as something new around cloud / software stack so will make a change proposal around that.

TF-WebRTC will expire in November and may not recharter.

SIG SCOPE: difficult to get the energy to get it going. 

Need to look at time allocations again in October. 

Workshop Series:

 - Puppypaws.

 - DDoS. 

30 minutes

Improving communication:

 - eventr statistics.
 - annual TF and SIG report.

 - minutes / blog posts.

 

All

 - February Nicole to ask all TF and SIG coordinators to talk their groups about the value they have seen over the year and how to describe that value to senior managers.

 - Aim to add presenter information to eventr.

 - Add tag "TF-SIG" to all events on eventr.

 - Aim to do a bespoke two-pager in time for the GA about the achievements of TFs and SIGs. 

 - SIG Marcomms group are looking at rolling out training on blogging. 

 - Create an annual set of a couple of slides for TFs and SIGs that can be reused.

 - How can we get more people involved in TFs and SIGs?  We need to get out to the NREN Annual conferences or away days more and present at these.  Using the model that Sigita had at the LITNET conference. Can we use training lines for NRENs to get people to come along?

 - All of the elements that provided development support to the smaller NRENs has gone.

 - Can we offer CPD / certificates more often and make this a standard part of the offer?

30 minutesGCC - upcoming meetings and general preparation.All

Attendance:

 - Nicole

 - Sigita

 - Brook?

 - Peter

 - Laura?

 - Magda

 - Nadia

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Agenda:

TF-Storage??

TF-WebRTC?

TF-RED?

TNE?

Annabel / eInfrastructure.

30 minutesGCC - paper on communications.All 
15 minutesAOBAll 

Action items

  • Nicole Harris to give Nadia some text on the value of TFs and SIGs.
  • ALL to give Nadia ONE success story per TF and SIG. 
  • Nicole Harris to ask for time allocation to be given to Brook on NA3
  • GÉANT website needs updating in various areas: add SIG-PMV, SIG-NGN, take out running periods for all SIGs.  
  • Nicole Harris to ask for an hours allocation report in October to get an idea about how much time is available. 
  • Sigita Jurkynaite to update requirements for TF and SIG meetings.  
  • Raise the issue of expanding the NREN Liaison role to include people in Amsterdam.