OSG Communications and Documentation Status

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OSG Communications and Documentation Status

• Anne Heavey
• 4/24/07

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Mission

• Communications
• Encourage participation in, partnering with, and
  continued funding of Open Science Grid by
  communicating OSG capabilities, achievements,
  goals and vision to consortium members and
  partners, funding agencies, prospective
  collaborators (broader science communities),
  other grid projects, media, those interested in
  the work of OSG and the general public.
• How do we do this?Provide and respond to
  requests for usable, interesting, up-to-date
  information about OSG. Maintain website.
• Documentation
• Provide, coordinate, organize, maintain usable,
  complete, up-to-date, technical documentation for
  the OSG community of new and existing users,
  administrators, trainees, and other workers.

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People

• OSG Project at Fermilab

Anne 0.7FTE All aspects of communications and documentation
Marcia 0.5FTE OSG Document librarian, webmaster, some writing and editing, organizes reviews of twiki material.
Forrest 0.77FTE Many areas of technical writing. till Aug 2007
Christy 0.5FTE International Science Grid this Week (resident at CERN) (Danielle for next 2 months)
Jen 3hrs/week Help with Web administration and content, some writing
Chander Ruth Agreements, policies, organizational material etc
Other Contributors
KyleG, RobQ, TimS OSG Operations twiki
Rob Gardner, Anand OSG Integration, software release, troubleshooting and technical material.
John Weigand, Burt, Terrence CMS contributions to quality assurance and review, and training materials
Chris G Technical assistance
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Scope Activities

• Communications in OSG covers
• Material for OSG web portal. Including Research
  Highlights (1/month)
• Material for and publishing of monthly newsletter
  to all of OSG Consortium. Have surveyed people to
  see what they want in it trying to make it
  relevant and interesting.
• Brochures, posters, slide shows, etc.
• Contributing editor to International Science Grid
  This Week online publication (0.5 FTE of full
  FTE support).
• Help with news and press releases,
  acknowledgements with users and stakeholders
  (publications).
• Outreach to other science communities
• Documentation in OSG covers
• Review of material on the OSG_at_Work twiki
  responsibility for organization and content of
  the Documentation web
• Technical documentation for users,
  administrators, software and services, training
  and education, OSG staff.

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Current Work

• Web material in particular need of work are
• Outreach and engagement, Initial entrant/ new
  user documentation and software, Calendar of
  events and meetings
• Graphics (consultant through VMS) for OSG
  concepts diagram for website and brochures.
• Thinking about how to introduce multimedia
  communications
• Exhibits Outreach
• Planning booth at CHEP 07 (10x10) with
  demonstrations.
• SC07? Some Council members pushing for this.
• Work on common material across Educause,
  Internet2, OSG, TeraGrid for CI Days (Campus
  Infrastructure Outreach).
• Proposal for another AAAS event. May 2 deadline
  for proposal.
• Documentation
• Not enough OSG Staff and Consortium actively
  contributing. Currently need tech experts to
  review some pages (e.g., FAQ).
• Priority need for new to OSG users guide
• A couple of VOs have provided requested
  information followup required
• Need to address complaints about complexity and
  navigation in doc.