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- WISE workshop information - David Groep
Highly successful event, global attendance, including the key infrastructures. Wide range of topics were discussed: formal standards, information sharing, trust groups, threat intelligence, training, etc. A lot of interest in engaging in shared activities was expressed, including higher level of data infrastructures, community structures, doing prediction of incidents. Some of the possible shared actions were identified, such as shared training, shared use of information security standards (network and e-infrastructures globally), marketing some training materials as "best WISE training materials". On the managerial level more work needs to be done, mainly to allow the technical staff to collaborate and share information freely. There is a need to create a persistent structure (perhaps REFEDS-like structure or similar). Steering committee is already elected. WISE will need to get funding, but even in the absence of funding people are convinced that it should go forward There is a difference between TF-CSIRT and WISE: TF-CSIRT is an organisation based group and WISE would bring more different institutions and individuals who want to collaborate.
The next possible step now is reaching out to Asia Pacific organisations and get them to participate. Alessandra will attend the APAN meeting and other meetings in Asia.
- EGI Conference information - Open Science Cloud discussion - Valentino Cavalli
At the EGI Conference there were a few sessions related to AAI - including one AARC organised outreach event.
The work in the area of Open Science Cloud done up to now includes establishing a high level expert group on the European Open Science Cloud and a work programme for 2016-2017, which includes two calls for a pilot: the first is mostly for the user led initiatives and the second - to build services to support the OSC.
The Open Science Cloud workshop at the EGI Conference was co-organised by GÉANT, EUDAT and EGI, divided into 3 sessions addressing different aspects.The workshop was meant to get various actors to get together and agree on common way of working. It was successful in getting different people to express their view and ideas, but more work needs to be done to get to a coherent vision of where it needs to go.
- GÉANT OER update and ICT-22 call proposal - Peter Szegedi
PS informed the TTC about a new call under the ICT programme (deadline - April next year), which is highly competitive, but relevant to possible continuation of the work that has been done so far in OER. At first, OER was a 9 month pilot that lead to a development of the aggregation engine and a portal, later picket up by GN4 - it is now a separate activity (SA8). It is expected to launch the OER portal by the end of the project. This area will not be funded in the 2nd phase of the GN4, but the service has more potential than a GN4 activity, so there is a need to look for funding elsewhere. PS is now working on creating a strong consortium, including commercials, libraries, universities that would create proposals - broader community needs to be involved.
ICT is the closest opportunity to receive funding, however, there are other calls that are relevant and will be looked into.
- TF-CPR update - Laura Dunford
Task Force meeting was held in Cambridge in October. The members requested to have a clearer overview of other TFs and SIGs, on which LD gave a presentation. There was a brief discussion about a possibility that TF-CPR might have to become a SIG. Other discussions included Cloud Services (what is it that they need to know in order to be able to promote those services), raising the visibility of the trainings, maintaining websites and blogs, and the future of the PeaR community news (still generated in the old TERENA way).
One of the issues raised was user outreach - Cambridge office described some of their work, which made it clear that there are too many projects for a few people to cover. TF members took a tour of the NOC to better understand what they want to promote.
Reporting mechanisms of the work should be more coordinated in the future. Some of the ideas: 5 min update, quarterly report, thematic updates, etc.
- REFEDS Update - Nicole Harris
- TF-MNM
Review of the slides on the Middleware issues - Peter Schober
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