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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.

Q1 YR1 report: https://geant.app.box.com/files/0/f/11646874206/1/f_97698734656
Q2 YR1 report: https://geant.box.com/s/q3yx4qxa3dngvb248aq2hopfekl7hrac.
Q4 YR1 report: https://geant.box.com/s/0y1c7zhu8exl3qhurxerp6egdd5q8dqu

Year 2


Q1

September - November 2017

Q2

December 2017 - February 2018

Q3

March 2018 - May 2018

Q4

June 2018 - August 2018









Year 1

 (they aren't really quarters but hey)

Q1

(May 2016 - August 2016)

Q2

(September 2016 - December 2016)

Q3

(January 2017 - April 2017)

Q4

(May 2017 - August 2017)

Task Force Coordination / GCC   4th and 5th meetings of the GCC.  Creation of:
  • SIG-CISS (aka new TF-Storage)
  • TF-RED
  • SIG-TNE

RADAR exercise recommendations from GA paper. 


TF-CSIRT 
TF-MNMNo activity in this quarter.TF closed in October 2016. The task force has formally been shut-down but GÉANT will continue to support the mailing list and an annual event at TNC. 20 participants currently signed up.
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.

4th SIG-ISM Workshop took place in Dublin on 22-23 February. There are two working groups (WG1: Inventory for Security Officers & WG2: Guidance on setting up and running ISMS for NRENs); 3 active regional working groups established (NORDIC/BALTIC, Benelux, English speaking region). You can read the meeting report here: 4th SIG-ISM Workshop - Agenda, Slides & Notes

WISE held their 4th workshop in Amsterdam on 27-29 March. 28 experts worked in 3 working groups on: Minimum Set Risk Assessment Checklist (RAW-WG), lists of available trainings and training needs (STAA-WG) and Security for Collaboration among Infrastructures document (SCIV2-WG).



SIG-Greenhouse

Commons Conservancy registered as a company with notary in NL. 

MoU between GÉANT, NLnet and Commons Conservancy signed.

Formal announcement of Filesender as the first project in the Commons Conservancy.  Conservancy also supporting another community project - eduVPN.  Full OS session at TNC to try and revive community interest as a topic. Tracking issues on community support vsbusiness dependency on OSS
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.

 

 CLOSED DOWN
SIG-Multimedia

SIG-Multimedia was established back in October 2016 to provide a forum for gathering and exchanging experiences, ideas and knowledge on the development, deployment, testing and standardisation of innovative multimedia protocols, infrastructures, services and applications.

The SIG-Multimedai Steering Committee members are

  • Mihaly Meszaros, NIIF

  • Rui Ribeiro, FCT

  • Erik Kikkenborg, NORDUnet

  • Bartlomiej Idzikowski, PSNC

The first face-to-face meeting co-located with the Up2U Project Workshop to be held on 8-10 May 2017 in Porto, Portugal.

Preparations for the meeting as well as identification of synergies between the GN4-2 and the Up2U projects' activities in the area of multimedia content repositories and real-time WebRTC-based communication services have been undertaken.


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.
 CLOSED DOWN
SIG-CISS

SIG-CISS (Cloudy Interoperable Software Stacks) was established in February 2017 in order to provide a broader forum for gathering and exchanging experiences, ideas and knowledge on the development, deployment, testing and standardisation of cloud infrastructure software stacks, platforms and workflows.

The SIG-CISS Steering Committee members are

  • Maciej Brzezniak, PSNC
  • Guido Aben, AARNet
  • Simon Leinen, SWITCH

First discussion and informal group meeting is scheduled during TNC'17. SIG-CISS will be hosted by the Cloud Cafe people.


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
  •  Meeting in April
  • Focusing on best practices, automation, communication and security
  • Further exploration of the training programme development. Seeing if a collaboration with EGI is possible.

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.

Met 7-8 March in Poznan, hosted by PSNC, including joint meeting with SIG-MSP & participation by some TF-RED people. 32 on-site participants  & 5 remote participants from 17 organisations.

  • Impacts of GDPR on NREN marketing & services
  • Update on crisis communications & brainstorm for upcoming community workshop
  • GN4-2 updates
  • Contributions by PSNC, HEAnet, CSC, DeIC, CESNET, BELNET, SURFnet, EENet, Jisc, GÉANT

More info here: https://blog.geant.org/2017/02/28/sigmarcomms-in-gear-for-gdpr/

Met on 2 June, immediately following TNC17 in Linz, Austria, as a joint meeting with the Global PR Network. 36 on-site participants and 2 remote participants from 27 organisations across Europe (EU and EaP countries), North America, Latin America, Eurasia, Central Asia, Australasia.

  • Explored challenges faced by Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries and gave them advice in a 'flipped' panel.
  • Reviewed InTheField blog and plans for development (AARNet)
  • Updates from participating NRENs about their communications activities, challenges and experiences (REANNZ, RESTENA, SINGAREN, CAREN and Asi@Connect project)
  • Reviewed TNC17


SIG-MSPPlanning for October meeting took place.12-13 October 2016 SIG-MSP Meeting took place in Rome, hosted by GARR. Info here: https://blog.geant.org/2016/10/13/ringing-the-changes-in-rome/

Met 8-9 March in Poznan, hosted by PSNC, including joint meeting with SIG-Marcomms & participation by some TF-RED people. 28 on-site participants & 4 remote participants from 18 organisations.

Joint meeting inlcuded:

  • European Open Science Cloud
  • GÉANT-and-NRENs service portfolio
  • Funet2020 new network

SIG-MSP meeting focused on:

  • Clouds
  • KPIs

More info here: https://blog.geant.org/2017/02/28/sigmsp-fruitful-feedback/


SIG-NGN

The Task Force was chartered in the previous quarter. No activity was scheduled in this quarter.

Discussion started on the KPIs to measure the SIG against. FOSDEM '17 was suggested as an event to co-locate. No formal meeting was scheduled.

The steering group defined KPIs for the SIG. 


SIG-PMVTask Force not operational in this quarter. 
  • First meeting held in Zurich.
  • Survey on performance and monitoring completed by the SIG.
  •  Second meeting held in Amsterdam.  Work on SIG-PMV scenarios started: PMV Scenarios.  

SIG-TNE

SIG-TNE was established in February with over 20 NRENs supporting the activity globally.

The first planning meeting took place on 25 April in Washington DC (at the Internet2 Global Summit). The session was well attended by 30 participants from all continents. During this meeting, 4 groups worked on identifying the main challenges that transnational education related institutions are facing now. You can read the meeting report here: Meeting at I2 Global Summit 2017


 

 

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