[PGS-RG] Licensing Roundtable at SC06

[Laura F McGinnis]

At the last few GGF meetings, we have discussed setting up a dialogue with
vendors to talk about licensing issues for software on grids. At GGF18 in
Washington, DC, we agreed that we would try to set something up at SC06,
since that gives us the best opportunity for connecting with the vendors. 

To make this happen we need answers to the following questions:

1) What specific questions to we have for the vendors? This will let us
formulate a Call for Participants, to send to relevant vendors. Please add
more questions to the list.
	Licensing models?
	License/access management?
	Site licenses, esp in virtual organizations

2) What packages/licenses are of particular concern? These are the vendors
we want to invite to participate. If there are more, please add to the list.
Also, if you have particular contacts with any of these vendors or packages,
please pass that information to us so the invitations can get to (hopefully)
the right people. If there are people in your organization who are better
equipped to identify packages & vendors, please pass this to them.
	Gaussian
	Amber
	Oracle
	PBS (and various schedulers)
	MatLab, Mathematica

3) Who can host the discussion and where? The following affiliated
organizations have exhibit space reserved at SC06:
	TeraGrid: Booth #223, 10ft by 10ft (affiliation through Laura)
	Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center: Booth #1049, 30'x30' (affiliation
through Laura)
	UK e-Science Programme: Booth # 2234, 40'x40' (affiliation through
David?)
I am also checking to see if OGF will have its own space or will be using
space at Argonne (Booth #1925). If there is anyone else who has booth space
and would be interested in hosting the discussion, please let me know. I
think we'd like to keep this in the exhibit hall, so that the vendors don't
need to wander too far from their booths.

I would like to get the Call for Participation out to the vendors by
mid-October, so they can plan to participate. I will also need to reserve
booth time at PSC by 1-November, if that's where we're going to hold this.
So please get back to me and/or the list quickly.

Thanks!
LM
 
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Laura F. McGinnis, Project Coordinator
Data & Information Resource Services
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center                      email: lfm at psc.edu
300 South Craig St, #313                             phone: 412-268-5642
Pittsburgh, PA  15213                                  fax: 412-268-5832
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