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This is for reporting on achievements and activities for the mandatory project quarterly reports.  No need to report on event dates as I keep a log of those elsewhere - please add anything concrete outcomes or developments within the TF and SIG Communities during each timeframe.

Year 1

 

Q1 2016

(May 2016 - August 2016)

Q2 2016

(September 2016 - December 2016)

 
Task Force Coordination / GCC   
TF-CSIRT 
TF-MNMNo activity in this quarter.TF closed in October 2016. 
SIG-ISM / WISE

SIG-ISM White Paper on security management: SIG ISM white paper security management.  

SIG-ISM risk consultation: RISK consultation VC, may 18th, 2016.

SIG-ISM White Paper on risk management: SIG ISM white paper risk management. 
SIG-Greenhouse

Commons Conservancy registered as a company with notary in NL. 

MoU between GÉANT, NLnet and Commons Conservancy signed.

 
SIG-SCOPE
  • SCOPE wiki space was created on the confluence wiki
  • SCOPE discussion forum was set up for members to launch new discussions or engage in conversations on various IT, business or sustainability topics launched by members. Forum software was tested and initial topics explored.
  • 5 Best practice documents from the former campus best practice national working groups are lined up for publication. Publication will be done on the new SCOPE wiki space where members have an opportunity to discuss good and best IT practices
  • A plan is made to review a number of campus best practice documents and update with the inclusion of a green element.
 
TF-WebRTC
  • Meeting in Berlin
  • Covering the handover from GN4-1 SA8 T2 (WebRTC Task) to GN4-2 JRA4 T4/5
  • Keep the community informed about commercial services/solutions: Intel, Firefox, Jitsi, Callstats.io, Mconf
  • Pulling together a market research about video and web conferencing service use either cloud-based or on-premises
  • Preparing the ground for the GÉANT/NORDUnet joint Vconf tendering procurement
  • Last meeting in Helsinki
  • Keeping an eye on WebRTC standardization at IETF
  • Focus on the Federated STUN/TURN service development fully covered by the GN4-2 JRA4 T4/5 tasks
  • The community will be involved in the market research study for the service
  • Agreed to close TF-WebRTC and re-create a new group with broader scope also on streaming, e-learning and mutimedia
  • SIG-Multimedia was created and approved by the GCC.

 

 
TF-Storage
  • The official task force mandate expired but the community remained engaged with all the spin-off activities
  • Oversight on the ownCloud agreement, more then 400k end-user licenses counted on 15 July.
  • Open Cloud Mesh project Phase 3 kick-off. Preparing for the formalization of the protocol.
  • OpenStack Operators group calls bi-weekly
  • Discussion about the re-chartering was started
  • Focus on the entire vertical cloud software stack, integrations and workflows
  • Decided to close down TF-Storage and re-charter into a new format
  • Proposal to be sent to GCC.
 
SIG-NOC
  • Some SIG-NOC participants met at TNC'16
  • Engagement with the wider community: E.g., Whether Forecast people in the UK
  • Preparing for the NOC Training development work
  • Business Case created for the NOC Training development and provisioning
  • Meeting in November
  • Focusing on automation of NOC workflows and functions )Configuration (network & servers), Monitoring, Fault response, Service recovery).
  •  Organizing a one-day NOC Training Development Workshop
 
SIG-Marcomms

Met 12 June 2016, preceding TNC16, in a joint meeting with the Global PR Network in Prague. 41 registered participants from 26 organisations.

  • Explored communications challenges faced by African NRENs. By comparing them to the European and Latin American experience found many similarities. Discussed how to support the starting of a SIG-Marcomms-like PR network in the African region.
  • Highlighted EventR community calendar and inthefieldstories.net blog as useful tool/channel
  • Provided a summary of 'storytelling in marketing communications' training from previous meeting
  • Updates from participating NRENs about their communications activities, challenges and experiences. 

Met 27-29 September 2016, hosted by EENet of HITSA at Tallinn University, Estonia. 17 on-site participants from 11 organisations and 11 remote participants registered.

  • GÉANT cloud services workshop
  • Overview of all TFs and SIGs and opportunities to propose workshops & small projects in GÉANT Community Programme.
  • Trialled blogging training and proposed rolling out to wider community.
  • Discussed crisis management and communications and proposed a community workshop
  • Followed up on June African PR Network discussion:
    • invitation to contribute to Ubuntunet conference communications workshop
    • hands-on work to start updating old 'How to...' communications documents
  • Updates from participating NRENs about their communications activities, challenges and experiences.
 
SIG-MSP   
SIG-NGN   
SIG-PMVTask Force not operational in this quarter.   

 

 

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