[ogsa-wg] Webcast thoughts (abstract)

Fri Mar 24 11:21:59 CST 2006

Hi, the OGSA webcast is now confirmed for Wednesday April 26th.  We'll
be discussing it on Monday's call and at the f2f in Sunnyvale.  We plan
to hold a dry run on the regular con-call on Wednesday April 19th.  It
will be hosted by HP; registration details to be announced.

I need to provide an abstract and some other information, including
speaker bios, by next Wednesday, 3/29, so we will need to finalize the
abstract on Monday's call.  My first draft is attached - if you have
comments or suggested changes please mark them up on the document and
return them to me as soon as possible, so that we can review them on the
call.  Please don't wait until the call, as that will inevitably prolong
the discussion.

Thanks!

- Jem
________________________________

From: owner-ogsa-wg at ggf.org [mailto:owner-ogsa-wg at ggf.org] On Behalf Of
Treadwell, Jem
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 1:31 PM
To: Andrew Grimshaw; ogsa-wg
Subject: RE: [ogsa-wg] Webcast thoughts

	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> 	

________________________________

		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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