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Developing for users - Robot Certificates in gUSE/WS-PGRADE

During the 10 year history of P-GRADE portal family we received many feedbacks from user communities. In several projects such as SCI-BUS and ER-flow end users asked for the possibility of running workflows with robot certificates. As many of you may ...

EGI Applications Database as a community software repository

In the last couple of months the EGI Application Database has been extended with support for ‘Community Technology Providers’, a specific type ofgrid/cloud softwaredeveloper who will become part of EGI from May 2013. In April, with the end ...

New Scientific Discipline Classification for EGI – Open for Comments

A proposal for a new classification of scientific disciplines for EGI is now available for comments until 30 April 2013. The proposed classification is an output of a dedicated virtual team that investigated the current usage of scientific disciplines in EGI, looked into more than ten publically available classifications, and analysed how the classification impacts each EGI tool separately. Ultimately, the classification is based on the Frascati FOS Classification

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The RAMIRI Handbook

 RAMIRI (Realising And Managing International Research Infrastructures) is an initiative pioneered by Prof. John Wood to develop a training program and networking platform for managers of research infrastructures (RIs) in Europe. Driven mainly by the ESFRI roadmap, it just concluded the second phase led by Prof. Carlo Rizzuto with a final workshop held in Brussels this 3-4 April 2013 where the first edition of the RAMIRI Handbook was published. 

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Newsflash: DIRAC Webinar - Fri 22 March

- 7 vacancies left!

A Webinar titled “DIRAC Distributed Computing Service is scheduled for tomorrow Friday 22 March at 10:00.  It will be delivered by Dr. Andrei Tsaregorodtsev, senior research engineer in Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille

Please register your interest and view the abstract through INDICO at: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1361

 

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User Community Support Team 2013 plans

The 2013 plans of the EGI.eu User Community Support Team recently emerged from our annual appraisals. I would like to share the key elements of this plan with you, so our partners within the NGIs, within projects and communities can see the 2013 focus areas of our Amsterdam-based team of four.

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WeNMR@J Grid Comp

An article describing the WeNMR VRC and its web portals and services has now been published in the Journal of Grid Computing.

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Discussing prospects of common e-Infrastructures governance for digital research

In November 2012, the EGI Council endorsed the “EGI.eu transition plan to ERIC”, a report depicting motivations, scope, governance and possible roadmap, for a new entity for e-Infrastructures dedicated to Digital Research under the ERIC legal framework. This report is the result of various discussions held during 2012 to evaluate the potential benefits for EGI, and ultimately the wider e-Infrastructure community, to consider the adoption of a new legal entity that has been introduced to deal with research infrastructures needs. 

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Addressing gender equality to enhance excellence in research and science

The Gender Summit 2012, co-convened byEuropean Science FoundationandgenSET, took place on 29 -30 Nov 2012 at the European Parliament in Brussels. This year the event focused on 'Aligning Agendas for Excellence' and it brought together top scientists, ...

Adding Pay-for-Use Models within EGI

Recently, a thought experiment was presented to and endorsed by the EGI Council on how pay-for-use models for EGI resources could be implemented where users are billed for the usage of resources. 

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