[ogsa-wg] Webcast thoughts (abstract)

Fri Mar 24 11:37:08 CST 2006

Dear All:

I'm concerned that a talk that focuses on the details of various 
specifications will not capture the imagination of the audience, especially 
as many of those specifications don't exist yet and/or have not been 
broadly adopted.

I wonder if we should be thinking about a presentation that emphasizes more 
what this will let people do?

Ian.

At 12:21 PM 3/24/2006 -0500, Treadwell, Jem wrote:
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>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
>
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>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
>
>
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>Jem Treadwell
>Hewlett-Packard Company
>6000 Irwin Road
>Mount Laurel, NJ 08054
>
>Phone: 856-638-6021
>Fax: 856-638-6190
>E-mail: <mailto:Jem.Treadwell at hp.com>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,
>
>Id 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 Id 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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Ian Foster                    www.mcs.anl.gov/~foster
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Argonne National Laboratory   The University of Chicago
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