This page describes the process implemented for involvement of the community in the draft of the second SRA version (v1.5) and the inputs received by the relevant players.

PHASE A: Design and Development of the Open Process

• June 18: Development of a draft describing the open process for community involvement and distribution to the participants of the Service Oriented Infrastructure NESSI Working Group meeting to be held on June 21.
• June 21: Presentation of the draft in the NESSI Working Group meeting meeting and open discussion. Representatives from main projects on grid computing participated in the meeting.
• July 5: Incorporation of the definitive open process for community involvement in the SOI-NWG web page and in the draft of the second SRA version (v1.5).
• July 15: Release of the draft of second SRA version (v1.5).

PHASE B: Implementation of the Open Process

• July 15: Call for Contribution, which was open to any individual, company or group of interest. The NESSI-Grid project puts the resources involved in promoting and monitoring participation of individuals and groups of interest in this call for contribution. The coordinators of following groups of interest were personally invited to contribute:
  • Research Projects:AKOGRIMO, ARGUGRID, ASSESSGRID, A-WARE, BEINGRID, BREIN, BRIDGE, CHALLENGES, CHEMOMENTUM, COREGRID, DATAMININGGRID, DEGREE, EC-GIN, ECHOGRID, EDUTAIN@GRID, G-ECLIPSE, GREDIA, GRID@ASIA, GRID4ALL, GRIDCOMP, GRIDCOORD, GRIDECON, GRIDTRUST, HPC4U, INTELIGRID, KNOWARC, KWF GRID, NEXTGRID, ONTOGRID, PROACTIVE, PROVENANCE, QOSCOSGRID, SIMDAT, SORMA, UNIGRIDS and XTREEMOS
  • Infrastructures: EGEE, DEISA, D-Grid, UK NGS, NORDUGRID and BALTICGRID
  • Middlewares: GRIA, GLOBUS ALLIANCE, GLITE, UNICORE and OMII
  • Individual Contributors: The coordinators of FP6 Grid Projects Technical Groups and Concertation Tasks were asked to contributed as individual contributors
  • Working Groups: The invitation to contribute was also distributed through the Enterprise Grid Requirements Working Group at OGF, and the Service Oriented Infrastructure NESSI Working Group.
• September 6: First reminder of the call for contribution.
• September 20: Second reminder of the call for contribution.
• September 26: Presentation of the Call for Contributions to the NESSI-Grid SRA at European Service, Software and Grid Technology Days 2007, Brussels.
• October 1: First release of the results of the call for contribution at the SOI-NWG WIKI and extension of the deadline to October 10th.
• October 2: Presentation of the Call for Contributions to the NESSI-Grid SRA in the Grid in Industrial Contexts session at EGEE 07, Budapest.
• October 10: Deadline and publication of the inputs at the SOI-NWG WIKI. Some of the contributors prefer to keep their contributions private.

PHASE C: Analysis of Contributions

• October 10 - October 12: Evaluation of the response of the community.
• October 12 - November 13: Incorporation of the contributions in the SRA v2.0.
• November 13 - November 23: Publication of the last draft of the SRA for public comment.
• November 30: Release of SRA v2.0.

PHASE D: Consultation Loop Closing

• February 1, 2008: In order to provide a clear and transparent view of the community feedback cycle, an individual tracking document, describing how each contribution has been handled and so incorporated into de SRA, has been prepared and distributed to each contributor.
• February 29, 2008: We have received positive feedback from all the contributors, so ensuring that the community is satisfied with the manner in which their comments have been incorporated. The contributors also agree to acknowledge their contribution in the SRA, so ensuring that the document has the agreement of “experts” outside the NESSI-Grid consortium.

The call for contribution has been highly successful:

• Most of contacted groups of interest (75%) have submitted the survey
• Other groups of interests have answered the invitation to contribute showing their interest in the results of the iniciative and explaining that they are not contributing because the project has just ended, it is not concerned with the business scenarios of Grid applications or developments are not yet mature enough to provide usefull views
• We have received in-depth reviews from many Grid experts

The results of the call provide relevant feedback from the community to:

• Improve the contents of the SRA (requirements, state of the art and reseach challenges)
• Evaluate the relevance and timeline of the business scenarios

The following contributions collect the feedback of relevant grid application projects on the draft of second version of the NESSI-Grid SRA (v1.5). Please notice that the contributor acts as representative of the research project and not as an individual contributor himself.

The following contributions collect the feedback of relevant grid infrastructures on the draft of second version of the NESSI-Grid SRA (v1.5). Please notice that the contributor acts as representative of the infrastructure and not as an individual contributor himself.

The following contributions collect the feedback of relevant middlewares on the draft of second version of the NESSI-Grid SRA (v1.5). Please notice that the contributor acts as representative of the middleware and not as an individual contributor himself.

The following contributions ollect the feedback of relevant experts in the Grid community on the draft of second version of the NESSI-Grid SRA (v1.5).

The following projects and working groups have generated related related analysis, surveys and interviews. :