Dear VT members,
let me draw your attention to an interesting Desktop Grid related event, especially if you have already planned to attend the co-located RDA and EGI events in September.
The International Desktop Grid Federation is organising its first member meeting on September 24, 2014 in the Big Data Value Centre in Almere, in the Amsterdam Metropolitan region. We'd kindly like to invite you to participate and possibly hold a presentation at this event. There are still some presentation slots available.
The first IDGF member meeting is co-located with two other events: a one-day tutorial on Crowd Computing on September 23, and a workshop on Citizen Science Technology Platforms on September 25. The whole three-day event will take place under the umbrella of the Crowd Computing 2014 Event (http://crowdcomputing.eu/crowd-computing-2014). You are welcome to also attend the tutorial and the workshop.
The IDGF technical meeting will concentrate on topics that are of direct interest to the members and member organisations of IDGF, especially those who operate Desktop Grids or Crowd Computing as we call it today.
This year we will focus on 3 themes for Desktop Grid/Crowd computing operators:
1. Financial aspects
2. Managing and operations
3. Communication, especially with citizens
Please have a look a the tentative programme:
9:00 Welcome & Introduction
9:15 Morning keynote
9:45 Coffee
10:15 Theme: Financial aspects
12:15 Lunch
13:15 Theme: Managing and operations
15:15 Tea break
15:45: Theme: Communication, especially with citizens (Communicating Crowd Computing)
17:45 Closing keynote
18:15: Reception
Each theme session will have the following format:
15m Introduction to the session
6 position papers/presentations
20 minute discussion
Theme: Financial aspects topics
Chair: Robert Lovas, SZTAKI & IDGF
- Financing crowd computing based on volunteers
- Getting commercial
- Project funding opportunities and experiences on European and national level
- Green IT aspects
Theme: Managing and operations
Chair: Jozsef Kovacs, SZTAKI & IDGF-SP
- Staffing over a longer period
- Is there an opportunity for IDGF certified software releases?
- Middleware options
- Integration into bigger e-infrastructures, the EGI example
- Green IT aspects
Theme: Communicating Crowd computing
Chair: Ad Emmen, AlmereGrid & IDGF
- Experiences with getting and keeping new volunteers
- Communication tools
- Working together with Crowd sourcing projects & e-infrastructures
- Green IT aspects
You can send your contribution to the AlmereGrid secretariat or post your submission at http://crowdcomputing.eu/call-for-participation-2014
You can register at http://crowdcomputing.eu/registration-2014
The participation fee for the IDGF meeting is 195,- euro which includes 1 year of IDGF personal membership.
More details about the Crowd Computing 2014 event are available at http://crowdcomputing.eu/crowd-computing-2014
Regards,
Robert