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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 classificationis an output of a dedicated virtual team that investigated the current usage of scientific disciplines in ...
• 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 ...
• Newsflash: DIRAC Webinar - Fri 22 March
  A Webinartitled “DIRAC Distributed Computing Service”is scheduled for tomorrowFriday 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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.Read more...Tags : gateways, portals, user community, wenmr
• 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 ...
• 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.Read more...Tags : business models, pay-for-use, policy

• Re: Science Gateway Primer
  I'm curious to hear about how EU projects are handling security for user-defined applications (basically if a user is developing a application or script and passing it through the SG to the compute provider). I see a discussion of the user-defined vs ...
• Re: EGI GLUE2 profile: we welcome your comments!
  Some important information to complement the previous post: the deadline for comments is 30 Nov 2012 Best wishes Tiziana
• Re: I wandered lonely as a cloud...
  Consolidation and commercializtion of commodity resources is a trend that will only continue. If someone can do it cheaper and better, it is hard to make the case to keep it locally. In terms of privacy, I think those issues can be worked out. We need to ...