[ogf20pc] Notes from last night's telcon

[David Wallom]

Hi Erwin,

I feel that should we have the developer track then it should be along the
lines of 'all or nothing', independent of what has been externally promised
to certain groups. 
We cannot as an organisation (OGF that is not EGEE) be seen to publicly back
one or two sets of m/ware over another, especially  those products that are
not using many of the standards that are in draft left alone
recommendations. 
This may leave those that fund people to visit OGF questioning why all this
work on standards that aren't being incorporated into software that OGF is
being seen to promote. My point is that it is all about image and in some
further ways as a man from Google said today on the BBC 'eating our own
dogfood'.

Regards

David


On 22/2/07 08:21, "Erwin Laure" <Erwin.Laure at cern.ch> wrote:

> Hi David,
> 
> I don't think this is what we decided. We only discussed the workshop
> program and from the submissions received we identified some that would
> better fit into the developers track. There are already other sessions
> considered for the developers track, like gLite and globus.
> 
> However, I (and the people on the phone last time) don't know how the
> developers track eventually will be put together, i.e. how contributions
> are solicited. Geoffrey?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Erwin
> 
> David Wallom wrote:
>> Hi Dave et al,
>> Many thanks for these notes. I am _VERY_ concerned though that we are half
>> considering cancelling the developer track. I feel that we either cancel it
>> all or have a fully representative set of middleware & tools. Since a large
>> part of the UK e-Science community will be there who would not normally
>> attend we would be in danger of giving the impression that these two and
>> these two alone are OGF recommended middleware, which bearing in mind that
>> they are largely not standards based may seem an error.
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> On 21/2/07 23:11, "Dave Berry" <daveb at nesc.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> All,
>>> 
>>> As promised, here are the notes fron last night's telephone meeting.  As
>>> you will see, we are recommending several mergers between proposed
>>> workshops.  I have mailed the organisers of the relevant workshops.
>>> 
>>> Best wishes,
>>> 
>>> Dave Berry
>>> Deputy Director, Research & E-infrastructure Development
>>> National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street
>>> Edinburgh, EH8 9AA           Tel: +44 131 651 4039
>>> 
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>> 
> 

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