This page shows the KPIs for each of the existing GÉANT Special Interest Groups.
2017
| SIG | Planned Achievement | KPI | Due Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCOPE | Write and or revise and publish Best Practice Documents including environmental elements | 2 Best Practice documents | May 2017 | NOT STARTED |
| SCOPE | Establish the community through face-to-face and online meetings | two meetings organised and held online or face to face | May 2017 | ONGOING |
| SCOPE | Establish a structure and plan for the future to align the Green ICT and Campus Best Practice works streams | Sustainability plan Manifesto | May 2017 | ONGOING |
| ISM | Create and maintain a trusted network for sharing best practices and information | 2 workshops a year (December 2017) Chat room (September 2017) | Dec 2017 | ONGOING |
| ISM | Increase NREN participation and regional collaboration in the area of information security management | Set up 2-3 regional groups (April 2017) Engage 2-3 new NREN members (December 2017) | Dec 2017 | ONGOING |
| ISM | Design an inventory for security officers | Design a structure for an online platform (April 2017) Collect information from 4 pioneering NRENs/Institutions (September 2017) | Sep 2017 | ONGOING |
| ISM | Guidelines on minimal set of security measures for an NREN | Set up a working group (April 2017) First documents produced and published (December 2017) | 2018 | ONGOING |
| NOC | Supervise the NOC Training development and execution. | Training BC has been rejected by GÉANT Association due to insufficient surplus for contingency and sustainability. Plan to re-submit to GCC for small project funding... | April 2017 | DONE NOT STARTED |
| NOC | Define and agree on key topics of interest and organize the SIG meetings around those topics. | Next coming SIG-NOC meeting is being discussed | April 2017 | ONGOING |
| NOC | Put more focus on NOC introductions and flash talks, try and engage with the broader community: Campus NOCs, other world regions.... | Informal meeting at TNC'17 for broader community engagement | April 2017 | ONGOING |
| Greenhouse | Implement use of Commons Conservancy within the community | 2 x projects in Conservancy | Dec 2017 | ON GOING |
| Greenhouse | Write a report on software dependencies | Document for circulation at GA | Sept 2017 | ON GOING |
| Greenhouse | Create a Greenhouse "manifesto" | Manifesto | Sept 2017 | NOT STARTED |
| Multimedia | Organize two SIG meetings and potential BoFs at relevant conferences. | 1st SIG-Multimedia will be hosted by FCT in Portugal in April time-frame possibly co-located with an Up2U Project technical meeting | Nov 2017 | ONGOING |
| Multimedia | Extend the community beyond the usual NREN participants towards universities, research labs and industry | 4-5 university collaborators 2-3 regular industry/standardization attendees | Nov 2017 | NOT STARTED |
| Multimedia | Organise cutting-edge demonstrations at large international conferences. | 4K WebRTC demo (at NORDUnet and Intrenet2) Federated STUN/TURN demo (to be planned...) | Nov 2017 | ONGOING |
| CISS | Refreshing and rebuilding the community. Global live inventory of “who does what”. | 2 meetings, 1-2 BoF at conferences and regular calls scheduled on yearly basis. Public, on-line, living document. | ||
| CISS | Common cloud execution workflow. Research and education engagement, use cases. | Sketching of a massive, scalable, reliable cloud execution platform with modular work-flow encapsulation, living document. | ||
| CISS | Industry engagement, federated, hybrid private-public architectures, cloud connectivity. | Regular information exchange with relevant industry partners. Getting in, out and in between of the clouds. | ||
| MSP | A good number and mix of participants at meetings throughout the year, including opportunities to mix with a variety of GÉANT staff and people from GÉANT member organisations and other organisations. | Number of individuals attending meetings as 1) total per year ≥ 45 and 2) average per ≥ 24 meeting, 3) year total from ≥ 5 GÉANT staff, number of organisations represented from 4) membership ≥ 15 and 5) other organisations. ≥ 3 | Jan 2018 | |
| MSP | A good number (not too many) and mix of topics presented by a good variety of organisations and occasional 'external' (non-members of the group) people. | Topics: 6) average number of presentations per ≥ 7 meeting, 7) number of ‘external’ speakers per year, ≥ 1 8) number organisations presenting on average; ≥ 5 | Jan 2018 | |
| MSP | A yearly evaluation within the mailing list: Report on satisfaction levels and how results will inform future activities | ≥ 12 responses to the annual survey, of which | Jan 2018 | |
| MSP | Share discussions / meetings / topics with other groups | ≥ 1/y | Jan 2018 | |
| Marcomms | A good number and mix of participants at meetings throughout the year, including opportunities to mix with a variety of GÉANT staff and people from GÉANT member organisations and other organisations. | Number of individuals attending meetings as 1) total per year ≥ 50 and 2) average per ≥ 22 meeting, 3) year total from ≥ 5 GÉANT staff, number of organisations represented from 4) membership ≥ 20 and 5) other organisations. ≥ 5 | Jan 2018 | |
| Marcomms | A good number (not too many) and mix of topics presented by a good variety of organisations and occasional 'external' (non-members of the group) people. | Topics: 6) average number of presentations per < 14 meeting, 7) number of ‘external’ speakers per year, ≥ 3 8) number organisations presenting; ≥ 18 | Jan 2018 | |
| Marcomms | Share discussions / meetings / topics with other groups | ≥ 1/y | Jan 2018 | |
| Marcomms | A positive response about the value of the discussions based on post-meeting feedback and a broader annual survey among participants. | 5* rating for each meeting from > 60% participants ≥ 20 responses for each annual survey, of which ≥ 60% report the discussions being useful for their everyday work | Jan 2018 | |
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| PMV | Conduct a Survey of Performance Monitoring (e2e) and Verification requirements within the GÉANT and eduPERT communities (and international collaborating organisations) | List of responses (#) - Qualitative/Quantitative Analysis. Documented requirements | Nov 2016 | ACHIEVED |
| PMV | Document the scenarios requiring appropriate PMV solutions | Document a number of key scenarios upon which the SIG will study... | Jan 2017 | ON GOING |
| PMV | Document initial recommendation(s) for PMV framework(s)/architecture(s) based on the requirements and scenario analysis | Document initial high-level recommendations for scenario-based PMV solution(s) | Mar 2017 | ON GOING |
| PMV | Identify developers of PMV toolkits, to establish dialogue on implementation of the recommendations in year 2 | Contacts identified for PMV toolkit deployment / development in year 2 | May 2017 | NOT STARTED |
| PMV | Identify communities that are in principle willing to evaluate the PMV solutions that are to be deployed in year 2 | Communities identified for year 2 tests | May 2017 | NOT STARTED |
2016
| SIG | Planned Achievement | KPI | Due Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISM | Establish the community through face-to-face and online meetings | Two meetings organised and held either online or face to face | July 2016 | ACHIEVED |
| ISM | Design a programme of work for future SIG development | An activity report for the Technical Committee (now GCC) | July 2016 | ACHIEVED |
| ISM | Gain support for the SIG from the community | Steering Committee members from at least 3 different organisations | August 2015 | ACHIEVED |
| NOC | Discuss, design and develop recommendations for a NOC Personnel’s Training (basic) and potential Certification Programme in order to bring/keep NOC staff up to the “standard” level. | List of recommendations | April 2016 | ACHIEVED |
| NOC | Invite NOC tool developers and organize half-day technical tutorial sessions on various products/topics. | 1 or 2 tutorials
| April 2016 | ACHIEVED |
| NOC | Extend the reach of the community to regional, metropolitan and campus NOCs. | 2-3 new NOCs to join in this category
| April 2016 | ACHIEVED |
| Greenhouse | Establish a framework for the proposed Conservancy | Agree MoU with NLnet for Commons Conservancy Work with 2 projects on Commons Conservancy model | July 2016 | ACHIEVED |
| Greenhouse | Establish baseline of software use and requirements for NRENs and the NREN community | Create list of Open Source products produced by NRENs and in use with service dependency.
| March 2016 | ACHIEVED |
| Greenhouse | Establish and promote recommended software quality process for NRENs | Process description on wiki and tested by three projects | December 2016 | NOT ACHIEVED |
| SCOPE | Write and or revise and publish Best Practice Documents including environmental elements | 2 Best Practice documents | May 2017 | NOT STARTED |
| SCOPE | Establish the community through face-to-face and online meetings | two meetings organised and held online or face to face | May 2017 | ONGOING |
| SCOPE | Establish a structure and plan for the future to align the Green ICT and Campus Best Practice works streams | Sustainability plan Manifesto | May 2017 | ONGOING |