Attendees: Mira, Leonardo, Grace, Branko, Andrijana, Lars, Luis, Casper,
Apologies: Mario, Gyongyi
Agenda:
1) Alignment Marcomms efforts for T&I services
Comms plan 2026 draft by Lars: https://docs.google.com/document/d/173Lx3D66OorVfQUJKQbc7ilG759R8pBI/edit → simplified plan compared to 2025.
Now Lars is looking into promotional materials for eduroam and Wallets.
Lars to share CANARIE materials on eduroam with Leo.
Partner Relations is available to promote the services or service specific updates.
Service marketing task in WP2.
Next steps: Leonardo and Lars will collaborate on comms plan. Task leads will be invited to provide input.
2) Service updates
| Updates BusDev | Requests & questions from PR/IR/MarComms/RE | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| eduroam | Responded to mail from Uzbekistan - no further contact Helping Egypt to move forward - waiting for new certificate from our side, stalled. | CAT tool - CANARIE | How to change the perception that NROs provide eduroam directly to end users? Risk of reputational damage to GÉANT and the NROs. Branko will set up meeting with marcomms and Casper. |
| eduGAIN | Team focussing mostly on the forthcoming eG training at the moment, March 30 to April 3 in Paris, at RENATER. Mozambique, Nigeria and Ethiopia will be sending trainees. | it would be good to come up with a press release, or a communication post on our social media channel on the training itself: | Andrijana will check with the team if there are hybrid options. |
| InAcademia | Outcome of effort last period on bilateral discussions: Outreach for early 2026: | ||
| Incubator | Trust & Identity Incubator's half-time demo on Thursday, 05 February 2026, from 16:00 to 18:00 CEST | ||
| CoreAAI | PR has a need for supporting materials. Marcomms created some drafts, but not ready to share publicly. | ||
| Wallets | Preparing article: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EktU2lnbihR1wzvOOKe-sy7MfezzrSJsg-z_6YpMCnw/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.zkt4v78e310 (draft) This article is meant to start the community building efforts. What would be the best strategy for publishing (1 article vs. short series)? - GÉANT Marcomms working on article and social media posts about DC4EU final paper, tripartite trust model, and eduGAIN using OpenID Federation | Publish as feature article. Publish on CONNECT Online. |
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