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Year 2


Q1

September - December 20182017

Q2

January 2018 - April 2018

Q3

May 2018 - August 2018

Q4

September 2018 - December 2018

Other Workshops
  • CLAW2018 planning.

Mobility day 2018: Mobility Working Group Meeting Day at TNC18.

CLAW playbook

https://blog.geant.org/2018/08/02/claw-a-crisis-management-workshop-that-puts-nrens-to-the-test

https://blog.geant.org/2018/07/16/gcp - general announcement

https://blog.geant.org/2018/06/01/tnc18-gcp - general announcement

CLAW infoshare.
SIG-NOCMagda Haver took over coordination role from Charlie. Three meetings with SC, preparing November meeting in November at GARR. Active in trying to making training initiative happen again. Contractual talks with trainer, budgeting and evaluating various scenarios.
  • Preparations for SIG-NOC meeting on 21-22 November in Rome, hosted by GARR. Huge interest so far.

Agenda here

  • Training talks still ongoing, mainly finalising contractual agreements with the trainer.

https://blog.geant.org/2018/11/27/sig-noc-ngn-minestrone-in-rome.

https://blog.geant.org/2018/09/28/sig-noc-and-sig-ngn-to-hold-meetings-in-the-eternal-city-21-22-november-and-22-23-november

TF-RED
  • All-hands VC on October 24th
  • First draft of a baseline document to collect info on research engagement throughout the world
  • New chair: David Salmon
  • Planning side meeting at TNC
Chris Atherton took over coordination role from Charlie. A side meeting for TF-RED was held at TNC18, focusing on International Research Engagement Challenges and Solutions. Following this a number of new people joined the TF-RED mailing list. Preparations were made for forthcoming SC and All hands meetings in Autumn 2018.
TF-DPRNo meetings in this period. 
TF-CSIRT
  • Creation of TF-CSIRT Futures working group looking at future alternative homes for TF-CSIRT.
  • TRANSITS retreat undertaking a complete review of all TRANSITS materials across four modules (organisational, operational, technical, legal).  
  • Changes made to Trusted Introducer contract to allow new listing process to be implemented.  

55th TF-CSIRT meeting held in Vilnius, Lithuania.  



https://blog.geant.org/2018/11/02/modern-transits-makeover-at-a-medieval-castle


SIG-PMVMeeting announcement: https://blog.geant.org/2017/10/18/sig-pmv-workshop-28-29-november-2017-nordunet-copenhagen.
  • No meetings this period, activity has focused on developments for TNC18.
  • Meeting at TNC18 with a focus on performance monitoring across GN4 projects, including DTN developments and GTS support.

https://blog.geant.org/2018/09/11/sig-pmv-meeting-registrations-and-call-for-presentations-open


SIG-Greenhouseno specific activity in this period. 

Discussions on future of the group and the proposal for TF-SMD (software management and development). 

Support for Filesender and the Commons Conservancy.

Decision due on TF / SIG SMD.  Decision on future of Greenhouse after this decision. Presentation on greenhouse concept and Commons Conservancy at Nordunet: https://events.nordu.net/display/NDN2018/Programme.
SIG-ISM

October meeting: https://blog.geant.org/2017/10/10/sig-ism-it-is-all-about-collaboration.

https://blog.geant.org/2017/10/16/together-towards-a-new-security-architecture

https://blog.geant.org/2018/06/05/sig-ism-tnc18-very-open-about-information-security

https://blog.geant.org/2018/03/04/news-from-wise.

https://blog.geant.org/2018/10/22/sig-ism-obsession-with-post-it-notes-and-plans-for-the-future


SIG-TNEThe Steering Committee had 2 meetings to work on a workplan for the SIG, consisting of 4 work areas. The most recent draft can be found here.
  • Meeting at APAN 45 (10 people).
  • Meeting at I2GS (20)
  • Meeting at TNC18 (20)

https://blog.geant.org/2018/09/03/next-stage-intelligence-gathering-activity-by-special-interest-group-transnational-education-sig-tne

https://blog.geant.org/2018/09/03/next-stage-intelligence-gathering-activity-by-special-interest-group-transnational-education-sig-tne.
SIG-MSPSeptember meeting: https://blog.geant.org/2017/09/26/connectivity-services-for-schools-best-practice-and-lessons-learned.

No meetings in this period.

Preparing for October meeting with focus on GDPR and Security.

Successful meeting on 3-4 October in Belgrade, Serbia hosted by AMRES. 35 participants from 15 representing NRENs. Main focus was on GDPR and new products related to Security. Notes here:  3-4 October 2018%2C Belgrade%2C Serbia


https://blog.geant.org/2018/10/09/busy-meeting-for-sig-msp-in-belgrade

SIG-Marcomms10+ SIG participants attended the CLAW workshop to gain practical experience in crisis management and to contribute to workshop deliverables. At the next SIG meeting (March 2018) they will report about the workshop and lessons learned and will get feedback on a workshop deliverable. Preparations for the March meeting (to be hosted by CSC-Funet) are taking place in this quarter.

30+ participants at 13-15 March meeting in Espoo, hosted by CSC.

40+ participants at joint  meeting with Global PR Network pre-TNC18.

Around 30 participants at 26-28 September meeting in Lisbon, hosted by FCCN.

Also a CONNECT article: https://www.geant.org/News_and_Events/CONNECT/Issue_30/Documents/SIG-Marcomms.pdf

Planning has begunnfor next 2 meetings (Feb 4-6 in London, June 16th preceding TNC)

SIG-Multimedia

Limited discussion on the mailing list. Most of the developments are happening in GN4-2 JRA4 on the WebRTC front.

Situation is being discussed and assessed by the SIC Committee members.

No specific activity identifiedNo specific activity identified
SIG-CISS

September meeting: 1st SIG-CISS meeting

4 action items have been defined with potential contributions by the next meeting.

Most of the SIG-CISS people are planing to attend the CS3 Workshop in Krakow on 29-31 Jan 2018. Preparation work has been started.

No specific activity identifiedNo specific activity identified

3rd SIG-CISS meeting

Successful meeting, over 30 delegates from 19 European organisations.

Blog post: https://blog.geant.org/2018/12/03/record-attendance-at-the-third-sig-ciss-cloudy-interoperable-software-stacks-meeting-in-berlin

https://blog.geant.org/2018/09/03/special-interest-group-cloudy-interoperable-software-stacks-sig-ciss-to-meet-again-in-november

SIG-SCOPEdormant.dormant.

SIG-NGNdormant.dormant.Group reinvigorated and planning a meeting for November 2018.

https://blog.geant.org/2018/11/27/sig-noc-ngn-minestrone-in-rome

https://blog.geant.org/2018/09/28/sig-noc-and-sig-ngn-to-hold-meetings-in-the-eternal-city-21-22-november-and-22-23-november

CLAW

https://blog.geant.org/2017/12/11/claw-surviving-the-crisis-together

https://blog.geant.org/2017/11/07/claw-the-first-crisis-management-workshop-for-the-geant-community


https://blog.geant.org/2018/03/09/the-return-of-claw-save-the-datehttps://blog.geant.org/2018/08/02/claw-a-crisis-management-workshop-that-puts-nrens-to-the-test

https://blog.geant.org/2018/11/26/claw-2018-crisis-in-guilder

https://blog.geant.org/2018/11/15/claw-2018-what-it-meant-to-me

CONNECT Magazine / General

WE NEED TO
TALK ABOUT
SECURITY.  Sigita Jurkynaite and Alf Moens.  CONNECT 26. 

GÉANT TASK FORCES
AND SPECIAL INTEREST
GROUPS: A VERY BUSY
SEASON AHEAD.  Rosanna Norman.  CONNECT 26.

CLAW – THE
FIRST CRISIS
MANAGEMENT
WORKSHOP FOR
THE GÉANT
COMMUNITY.  Charlie van Genuchten.  CONNECT 26.

NEWS FROM THE
GÉANT COMMUNITY
PROGRAMME.  Charlie van Genuchten.  CONNECT 28.

https://blog.geant.org/2018/07/16/gcp.

https://blog.geant.org/2018/06/01/tnc18-gcp


GDPR and the GÉANT Community.  Ana Alves, CONNECT 30.

THE RETURN OF
CLAW IN 2018.  Rosanna Norman.  CONNECT 30.

GÉANT
COMMUNITY
PROGRAMME:
BACK IN FULL
SWING AFTER THE
SUMMER BREAK.  Rosanna Norman.  CONNECT 30. 

STEERING
SIG-MARCOMMS
THROUGH 15 YEARS
OF SUCCESS!  Laura Durnford.  CONNECT 30. 

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