[pgm-rg] Merged Group Name?

[Judith Utley]

Laura McGinnis wrote:

> We have most of the material ready to send to the GGF Steering Group 
> to request the merger of the Production Grid Management and Grid User 
> Services Research Groups.  The last this we need is a really good 
> group name.
>
> At GGF13, we referred to the merged group as "Production Grid 
> Services", which was an easy combination of the two original group 
> names. On reflection, though, I'm concerned that this might imply some 
> sort of grid or web services code base, which is exactly NOT what this 
> group is about. 


Production Grid Services could work. A Production Grid would certainly 
include User Services.

PGM-RG was formed to address issues moving from a research/development 
grid to full production grid
as well as changes needed in a Production Grid as the grid technology 
changes. User services was
always part of PGM, just that PGM was careful not to duplicate the work 
that GUS was doing. PGM
overlaps to some extent with other groups on some level since the 
concerns of PGM was to address
'pulling it all together' to create and grow a production grid.  

I suggest we keep the PGM name since PGM best describes the function of 
the merged groups. I am
not against a name change, but have not  thought of a new name that 
better covers the goals of
the merged groups.

A reference to the work started in GUS documents that are completed in 
PGM should be noted.

>
>
> So here are a few other ideas I wanted to bounce around:
>
> Grid Operations Management (GOM-RG) 

It should include, but extend beyond, Operations. Operations implies the 
processes
of keeping the grid up and running. Production Grid Management includes
the Operations, the User Services, Security, etc. as well as planning 
for the
future (not the development itself, but plans for what will be needed, 
etc.).

>
> Grid Management Forum (GMF-RG) 

My second choice, but still does not indicate the group is focusing on
making this work in a production environment.

>
> Grid Management and User Issues (GMAUI-RG)  


Too long.

>
>
> Are any of these obvious winners? Or does anyone have any other ideas?
>
> Prompt response to this would be appreciated,  so we can get the 
> rechartering request into the Steering Group quickly. It would be nice 
> to have the merger completed before GGF14.
>
> thx
> LM
>
>
> Laura F. McGinnis
> Project Coordinator: Data & Information Resource Services
> Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center        4400 Fifth Avenue, # 
> 409D       Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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>
>
>

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Judith Utley
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