Quarterly Reports

• Meeting in Berlin
• Covering the handover from GN4-1 SA8 T2 (WebRTC Task) to GN4-2 JRA4 T4/5
• Keep the community informed about commercial services/solutions: Intel, Firefox, Jitsi, Callstats.io, Mconf
• Pulling together a market research about video and web conferencing service use either cloud-based or on-premises
• Preparing the ground for the GÉANT/NORDUnet joint Vconf tendering procurement

• Last meeting in Helsinki
• Keeping an eye on WebRTC standardization at IETF
• Focus on the Federated STUN/TURN service development fully covered by the GN4-2 JRA4 T4/5 tasks
• The community will be involved in the market research study for the service
• Agreed to close TF-WebRTC and re-create a new group with broader scope also on streaming, e-learning and mutimedia
• SIG-Multimedia was created and approved by the GCC.

• The official task force mandate expired but the community remained engaged with all the spin-off activities
• Oversight on the ownCloud agreement, more then 400k end-user licenses counted on 15 July.
• Open Cloud Mesh project Phase 3 kick-off. Preparing for the formalization of the protocol.
• OpenStack Operators group calls bi-weekly

• Discussion about the re-chartering was started
• Focus on the entire vertical cloud software stack, integrations and workflows
• Decided to close down TF-Storage and re-charter into a new format
• Proposal to be sent to GCC.

• Some SIG-NOC participants met at TNC'16
• Engagement with the wider community: E.g., Whether Forecast people in the UK
• Preparing for the NOC Training development work

• Business Case created for the NOC Training development and provisioning
• Meeting in November
• Focusing on automation of NOC workflows and functions )Configuration (network & servers), Monitoring, Fault response, Service recovery).
•  Organizing a one-day NOC Training Development Workshop

Met 12 June 2016, preceding TNC16, in a joint meeting with the Global PR Network in Prague. 41 registered participants from 26 organisations.

• Explored communications challenges faced by African NRENs. By comparing them to the European and Latin American experience found many similarities. Discussed how to support the starting of a SIG-Marcomms-like PR network in the African region.
• Highlighted EventR community calendar and inthefieldstories.net blog as useful tool/channel
• Provided a summary of 'storytelling in marketing communications' training from previous meeting
• Updates from participating NRENs about their communications activities, challenges and experiences. 

Met 27-29 September 2016, hosted by EENet of HITSA at Tallinn University, Estonia. 17 on-site participants from 11 organisations and 11 remote participants registered.

• GÉANT cloud services workshop
• Overview of all TFs and SIGs and opportunities to propose workshops & small projects in GÉANT Community Programme.
• Trialled blogging training and proposed rolling out to wider community.
• Discussed crisis management and communications and proposed a community workshop
• Followed up on June African PR Network discussion:
  • invitation to contribute to Ubuntunet conference communications workshop
  • hands-on work to start updating old 'How to...' communications documents
• Updates from participating NRENs about their communications activities, challenges and experiences.