[ogsa-wg] Webcast thoughts

[Treadwell, Jem]

Hi Andrew, sorry for the delayed response... for anyone wondering what
this is about, we're proposing to do a public webcast about OGSA, in the
April timeframe, and will have more details once the logistics have
firmed up a little more.  HP will host.
 
I've been working on the slides as a background activity, so please
assume I have the pen at the moment.  I agree that they need augmenting
for this.
 
I think we can set our own expectations for the audience - we can say
who it's for when we advertise it.  As a starting point I assume we want
to pitch it in the middle - some background, but also some specifics on
the capabilities and where things fit.  Thoughts for an outline; some of
this is already in place, of course:

*	
	Background to grid and GGF, including some history & definitions
*	
	
	Where grid is being used now, importance in the commercial
world, and the future
*	
	
	Transition to SOA & Web services - why, and what it means
*	
	Standards - why they're important, a review of relevant
standards and SDOs, including latest news
*	Some specifics about OGSA: background, some info from the
Roadmap, and an explanation of profiles
*	
	Details of the OGSA capabilities and closely-related work - an
intro diagram and a few slides on each - high-level intro, some detailed
examples, status of work - we need to agree how technical we want to
get, and try to keep all at the same level.  e.g.:

	*	
		Infrastructure
	*	
		Security
	*	
		EMS
	*	
		Data
	*	
		Resource Mgmt
	*	
		Info
	*	
		CDDLM
	*	
		Self mgmt
	*	
		WS-Agreement
	*	
		Naming
	*	
		Any others?

 
BUT: we will have to be conscious of time: I've already listed too much
if capabilities average more than 3 minutes.  So this is probably overly
ambitious.
 
Although we talked earlier about a 2-hour slot, I now know it's actually
90 minutes.  [We'll have 30 minutes before the start for the presenters
to get online and do logistics.]  So the target for the presentation
should be one hour, with the remainder for Q&A.  Some time will be spent
on preliminaries, so Q&A will probably be down to 20 mins.  We probably
won't have time to do audience polls, other than maybe one at the end
while Q&A is in progress.
Here are a few other things we'll need to provide ahead of time:

*	Title of presentation (e.g. "Defining the Grid: An Overview of
OGSA")
*	Short abstract of session
*	Names of speaker(s)
*	Duration: Target one hour for presentation, 30 minutes for Q&A
*	Short bios for the speaker(s) -- two or three sentences each

 
- Jem
 
________________________________

Jem Treadwell
Hewlett-Packard Company
6000 Irwin Road
Mount Laurel, NJ 08054	  	  	
Phone: 	856-638-6021	
Fax: 	856-638-6190	
E-mail:	 Jem.Treadwell at hp.com <mailto:Jem.Treadwell at hp.com> 	
 


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	From: owner-ogsa-wg at ggf.org [mailto:owner-ogsa-wg at ggf.org] On
Behalf Of Andrew Grimshaw
	Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 10:22 AM
	To: 'ogsa-wg'
	Subject: [ogsa-wg] Webcast thoughts
	
	

	All,

	I'd like to start an email discussion in advance of the F2F on
the webcast content. While we do have an initial set of slides - I think
we need to make sure that we design the talk for our expected audience -
rather than based on the material we already have in the deck. When Dave
I went to MS our slide deck was not technical enough - we had the wrong
talk with us, and so had to improvise. So, one of the things I'd like to
know is: Who is our expected audience? Is it technical people, if so,
are they web services aware?, are they applications developers? Or are
they mostly managers and planners. Or do we have to try and make
everyone happy.

	 

	Any insight?

	 

	A

	 

	Andrew Grimshaw

	Professor of Computer Science

	University of Virginia

	434-982-2204

	grimshaw at cs.virginia.edu

	 

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