[ogf20pc] Allocating workshops to slots (DRAFT) - free spaces

[Dave Berry]

Dear all,

It seems I misunderstood - David and Wolfgang are requesting 5 sessions
(or at least 4) for their combined workshop.  This would make it last
all day on Monday and would solve the question of what to do with the
free sessions on Monday morning.  

This does point out that one other potential use for free slots would be
to extend the already allocated workshops.  E.g. the astronomy people
originally requested 5 slots, the SLA workshop combines two requests for
2 sessions, and the SOKU organisers requested 4 sessions.

Dave.

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> [mailto:ogf20pc-bounces at ogf.org] On Behalf Of Dave Berry
> Sent: 25 February 2007 17:31
> To: ogf20pc at ogf.org
> Subject: [ogf20pc] Allocating workshops to slots (DRAFT) - free spaces
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> As promised, I took a look at how we might allocate workshops 
> to slots.
> Before going any further, let me stress that the attached 
> spreasheet is
> purely exploratory.  The aim of this exercise is to 
> investigate how much
> room we have for manouevre.  Even the mapping of workshops to days is
> conjectural, let alone the allocation of individual rooms.
> 
> The exercise does reveal some scope for flexibility.  David Wallom and
> Wolfgang Gentzsch tell me they can combine their workshops into one,
> needing three sessions.  This removes some of the strain.  
> The result is
> that we can fit in the e-Humanities workshop and still have some
> sessions left over to allocate.  In the attached scenario, 
> there are two
> free sessions on the Monday morning, two on the Monday 
> evening, and one
> on the Tuesday morning (although othe rvariations are possible).
> 
> I can think of several possible uses for these extra sessions 
> and would
> appreciate your input on which of these (or others) would 
> give the best
> results:
> 
> - I think we need an e-science community session of some sort on the
> Tuesday morning.  One possibility would be to have an invited talk.
> 
> - We could try and squeeze in the e-health workshop.  Although if this
> has a largely UK focus (even with an expended remit), Monday 
> might be a
> poor choice of day - so it might involve a swap with the Astro or
> e-Humanities workshop.
> 
> - We could add some more technology reviews.  We have specifically
> received proposals from OGSA-DAI, OMII-Europe and the Gridway
> metascheduler, and there are many others "carried forward" from OGF19.
> (Personally, I think Condor would be the next in the list in terms of
> widespread use).
> 
> - I am trying to fit in a talk from the European Commission.  
> Currently
> I'm thinking of doing this by reducing Wednesday's lunch to 
> an hour, but
> perhaps another approach would be to give this as an invited talk in a
> normal session, perhaps even combined with OMII-Europe?  We'd probably
> have to jiggle the attached scenario to get the best choice 
> of days for
> this.
> 
> 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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