Building effective user communities

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Building effective user communities
Mike Mineter mjm_at_nesc.ac.uk
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Training Education Spectrum

• Training
• Targeted
• Immediate goals
• Specific skills
• Building a workforce
• Education
• Pervasive
• Long term and sustained
• Generic conceptual models
• Developing a culture
• Both are needed

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The key

• Key to initiating use of grids
• Skilled application developers
• Users should not need to know or see the grid(s)!

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Trainers power Virtuous Cycles
User Registration
Outreach Dissemination
User Induction Training
Researchers Diagnosticians Designers
Dissemination
Advanced EGEE Applications
Success Stories Experts
Developer Initial Training
Positive Referrals
New EGEE Applications
Positive Referrals
Developer Advanced Training
Pushing Limits
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Distance learning

• Current focus is strongly on establishing a
  digital library
• See http//egee.lib.ed.ac.uk for current state
  of play
• Use Access Grid?
• For meetings with others in EGEE (not all sites
  have AG)
• To contribute to courses you run
• If you want a new module in a course
• For a discussion session to close a course?

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t-Infrastructure

• Why t-infrastructure?
• Training is necessary personal e-learning
• e-Infrastructure for production
• t-Infrastructure for training
• Need guaranteed response for tutorials limit the
  vulnerability of production systems
• use training grid
• have training CA
• able to change middleware to prepare participants
  for future releases on production system
• need safe resources for installation training
• easy entry point for new communities

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The GILDA Test-bed(https//gilda.ct.infn.it/testb
ed.html)
15 sites in 3 continents !
GILDA is coordinated by Roberto Barbera and
colleagues at the University of Catania and INFN.