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Workshop Objective
CTO workshops are meant to guide what NREN and GÉANT do?
This is expressly not only for the GN5x project, but in general. First figure out:
- What are we doing right
- What are we doing wrong?
- What are our blind spots?
Presented topics are a direction that we might take but there are others.
Maximise discussion time and CTO participation and engagement, to receive guidance on:
"What are the right things to do together for above the net?".
Funding options can be figured out later.
Outcome of the workshop is a roadmap (update) outlining identified priorities for the coming multi-year community collaboration cycles.
Workshop Activities
The workshop was organised on Zoom, into several sections:
- Introduction
- (5x) Thematic section with one speaker (30 mins each)
- 7 min presentation
- 20 min discussion
- 3 min summary with Menti poll
- Total summary (with exit poll)
The topics under discussion were identified in an initial community brainstorming session some weeks before, and refined into:
- Infrastructure cloud and videoconferencing
- Joint activity towards commercial suppliers
- Research data sharing
- Education
- Artificial Intelligence - AI
Workshop Summary
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Next Steps
Preparation of a roadmap update with community input by willing contributing authors, addressed to the GÉANT General Assembly, and containing:
- guidance for planning of needed continuing operations activities around the OCRE 2020/2024 Framework
- recommendations for exploiting the opportunity of a now sufficiently mature eduMEET, toward a wider and interoperable European R&E videoconference federation
- options for continuing/expanding the Cloud Strategy work beyond a sourcing strategy framework for infrastructure cloud
- a recommendation to study the use-case of a European-scale research data storage facility, and options for the GÉANT community to lead on this in the interest of data sovereignty and also achievable scalability cost savings across Europe
- a concept for a more permanent "commercial engagement" function in the GÉANT community, with scenarios "small"/"medium"/"large" depending on requirements and expected outcomes. There is a specific and temporary opportunity for GÉANT to claim a role within the EOSC ecosystem as the collective procurement engine to provide compliant agreements with commercial providers within that marketplace
- a recommendation to pursue a coordinated technical exploration around the concept of "EOSC nodes", and how that can work in practice for NRENs; potentially this ends up more a T&I subject, but with some contact to Above-the-Net
- a recommendation to continue and upgrade the Services Incubator facility, to allow early investigation of new service ideas, e.g. for education; in coordination with corresponding topic-specific community fora e.g. SIGs
- a recommendation to create a place in the community program where an ongoing conversation on AI can take place and individual learnings from the community can be shared for the benefit of all
This roadmap will not be able to be implemented directly in the existing GÉANT project landscape, such as GN5-x, and is not intended to be. It may not be possible to implement all of the developed ideas at all. Therefore, the roadmap shall contain decision aids for the General Assembly to understand and ratify that decisions in favor of certain proposals then work against other ones, provided no other funding and manpower sources materialise.
Selection of specific activities for inclusion in imminent project calls are made together with the GÉANT Project Planning Committee - GPPC, based upon the most current roadmap available at the time.