This page shows the KPIs for each of the existing GÉANT Special Interest Groups.
2018
| SIG | Planned Achievement | KPI | Due Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CISS | ||||
| Greenhouse | None set - proposal to close group / merge with SMD. | |||
| ISM | ||||
| Multimedia | ||||
| MSP | ||||
| Marcomms | ||||
| NGN | ||||
| NOC | ||||
| PMV | ||||
| SCOPE | 1 Document and maintain recommendation(s) for PMV framework(s)/architecture(s) based on the documented community requirements and agreed scenarios. | March 2018 March 2018 | ||
| TNE |
2017
| SIG | Planned Achievement | KPI | Due Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCOPE | Write and or revise and publish Best Practice Documents including environmental elements | 2 Best Practice documents | May 2017 | ON GOING |
| SCOPE | Establish the community through face-to-face and online meetings | two meetings organised and held online or face to face | May 2017 | ONGOING |
| SCOPE | Establish a structure and plan for the future to align the Green ICT and Campus Best Practice works streams | Sustainability plan Manifesto | May 2017 | ONGOING |
| ISM | Create and maintain a trusted network for sharing best practices and information | 2 workshops a year (December 2017) Chat room (for SC) (September 2017) | Dec 2017 | DONE |
| ISM | Increase NREN participation and regional collaboration in the area of information security management | Set up 2-3 regional groups (April 2017) Engage 2-3 new NREN members (December 2017) | Dec 2017 | DONE |
| ISM | Design an inventory for security officers | Design a structure for an online platform (April 2017) Collect information from 4 pioneering NRENs/Institutions (September 2017) | Sep 2017 | DONE |
| ISM | Implementation of security management for NRENs | Set up a working group (April 2017) First documents produced and published (December 2017) | 2018 | DONE ONGOING |
| NOC | Supervise the NOC Training development and execution. | Training BC has been rejected by GÉANT Association due to insufficient surplus for contingency and sustainability. Plan to re-submit to GCC for small project funding... | April 2017 | DONE ONGOING |
| NOC | Define and agree on key topics of interest and organize the SIG meetings around those topics. | Next coming SIG-NOC meeting is being discussed | April 2017 | DONE |
| NOC | Put more focus on NOC introductions and flash talks, try and engage with the broader community: Campus NOCs, other world regions.... | Informal meeting at TNC'17 for broader community engagement | April 2017 | DONE |
| Greenhouse | Implement use of Commons Conservancy within the community | 2 x projects in Conservancy | Dec 2017 | DONE |
| Greenhouse | Write a report on software dependencies | Document for circulation at GA | Sept 2017 | DONE |
| Greenhouse | Create a Greenhouse "manifesto" | Manifesto | Sept 2017 | NOT STARTED |
| Multimedia | Organize two SIG meetings and potential BoFs at relevant conferences. | 1st SIG-Multimedia hosted by FCT in Portugal in April time-frame co-located with an Up2U Project technical meeting Side meeting at TNC'17 Working session at the GÉANT Symposium'17 | Nov 2017 | DONE |
| Multimedia | Extend the community beyond the usual NREN participants towards universities, research labs and industry | 4-5 university collaborators 2-3 regular industry/standardization attendees | Nov 2017 | DONE |
| Multimedia | Organize cutting-edge demonstrations at large international conferences. | 4K WebRTC demo (at NORDUnet and Intrenet2) Federated STUN/TURN demo at the GÉANT Symposium'17 | Nov 2017 | DONE |
| CISS | Refreshing and rebuilding the community. Global live inventory of “who does what”. | BoF - Partnering the Cloud Café at TNC'17 1st meeting in September 2017, in Amsterdam co-located with the 2nd ORC CS3 sub-group meeting in January 2018 Public, on-line, living document. | DONE | |
| CISS | Common cloud execution workflow. Research and education engagement, use cases. | Write a position statement about value-added cloud service level specification for multi-disciplinary scientific applications i.e. above the simple VM and/or block storage level but below the domain specific applications/workflows’ needs. | DONE | |
| CISS | Industry engagement, federated, hybrid private-public architectures, cloud connectivity. | Regular information exchange with relevant industry partners. Getting in, out and in between of the clouds. OpenStack.org is attending... | DONE | |
| MSP | A good number and mix of participants at meetings throughout the year, including opportunities to mix with a variety of GÉANT staff and people from GÉANT member organisations and other organisations. | Number of individuals attending meetings as 1) total per year ≥ 45 (actual 55) and 2) average per ≥ 24 (actual 27.5 - as only 2 meetings) meeting, 3) year total from ≥ 5 (9 in total) GÉANT staff, number of organisations represented from 4) membership ≥ 15 and (Poznan 19, Dublin 16) 5) other organisations. ≥ 3 (1 Berkeley) | Jan 2018 | ACHIEVED |
| MSP | A good number (not too many) and mix of topics presented by a good variety of organisations and occasional 'external' (non-members of the group) people. | Topics: 6) average number of presentations per ≥ 7 (Poznan 9 from 6 organisations, Dublin 15 from 9 organisations) meeting, 7) number of ‘external’ speakers per year, ≥ 1 (many new members attended MSP for the first time in 2017 e.g. GARR, CARNET, PSNC, CYNET) 8) number organisations presenting on average; ≥ 5 (7.5 organisations) | Jan 2018 | ACHIEVED |
| MSP | A yearly evaluation within the mailing list: Report on satisfaction levels and how results will inform future activities | (Survey being prepared - will be discussed at next MSP meeting) ≥ 12 responses to the annual survey, of which | May 2018 | ONGOING |
| MSP | Share discussions / meetings / topics with other groups | ≥ 1/y (done - meeting in Poznan with SIG-Marcomms) | Jan 2018 | ACHIEVED |
| Marcomms | A good number and mix of participants at meetings throughout the year, including opportunities to mix with a variety of GÉANT staff and people from GÉANT member organisations and other organisations. | Number of individuals attending meetings Exceeded in 2016 & 2017 | Jan 2018 | DONE 1) = 80 3) = 10 4) = 25 5) = 9 |
| Marcomms | A good number (not too many) and mix of topics presented by a good variety of organisations and occasional 'external' (non-members of the group) people. | Topics: Exceeded in 2016, partly achieved in 2017 | Jan 2018 | DONE 6) = 16 7) = 13 8) = 25 |
| Marcomms | Share discussions / meetings / topics with other groups | ≥ 1/y Achieved | Jan 2018 | DONE joint meeting with SIG-MSP & TF-RED in March 2017, and joint meeting with Global PR Network in June. CLAW workshop of 42 people included 11 from Marcomms |
| Marcomms | A positive response about the value of the discussions based on post-meeting feedback and a broader annual survey among participants. | 5* rating for each meeting from > 60% participants ≥ 20 responses for each annual survey, of which ≥ 60% report the discussions being useful for their everyday work partly achieved in 2017 | Jan 2018 | DONE 5* rating for March meeting from 13.33%, 4* from 66.67% , 3* from 20%. (June meeting no survey, end of year meeting was CLAW - separate feedback mechanism.) Only 11 responses for end-of-year survey. 72.73% said the meetings as being useful for their everyday work. |
| NGN | Support the NREN community through face-to-face meetings, online meetings and mailing list discussions |
| Nov 2017 | NOT STARTED |
| NGN | Record the Technology Trends emerging within our environment |
| Jan 2018 | NOT STARTED |
| NGN | Encourage diversity from our community |
| Nov 2017 | NOT STARTED |
| PMV | Conduct a Survey of Performance Monitoring (e2e) and Verification requirements within the GÉANT and eduPERT communities (and international collaborating organisations) | List of responses (#) - Qualitative/Quantitative Analysis. Documented requirements | Nov 2016 | DONE |
| PMV | Document the scenarios requiring appropriate PMV solutions | Document a number of key scenarios upon which the SIG will study. PMV Scenarios | Jan 2017 | DONE |
| PMV | Document initial recommendation(s) for PMV framework(s)/architecture(s) based on the requirements and scenario analysis | Document initial high-level recommendations for scenario-based PMV solution(s) | Mar 2017 | DONE |
| PMV | Identify developers of PMV toolkits, to establish dialogue on implementation of the recommendations in year 2 | Contacts identified for PMV toolkit deployment / development in year 2 | May 2017 | DONE |
| PMV | Identify communities that are in principle willing to evaluate the PMV solutions that are to be deployed in year 2 | Communities identified for year 2 tests | May 2017 | DONE |
| TNE | TNE SIG developed critical mass and NRENs aware of presence with focus and objectives communicated | 15 NRENs ‘signed up’ to participate in SIG | July 2017 | DONE |
| TNE | Prioritised TNE SIG work plan and resource commitment for 2017-19 | Work plan with NREN leads identified | July 2017 | ONGOING |
| TNE | Understand national TNE data and gaps, and national policies for connection | ‘Mapping’ of country data more clearly understood enabling NREN-NREN collaboration in supporting TNE Consideration of development of a global connectivity policy to support TNE National NRENs enabled and equipped to develop better data collection within country | End 2017 | ONGOING |
| TNE | Produce ‘global tech toolkit’ for NRENs and support development of national toolkits, including connectivity map (based on #3 above and the Jisc TNE Tech Toolkit) | Toolkit for NRENs globally, whether sending, receiving or developing, jointly developed from national in-country knowledge | End 2017 | ONGOING |
| TNE | Joint communications activities to promote GÉANT TNE work |
| Ongoing | ONGOING |
2016
| SIG | Planned Achievement | KPI | Due Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISM | Establish the community through face-to-face and online meetings | Two meetings organised and held either online or face to face | July 2016 | ACHIEVED |
| ISM | Design a programme of work for future SIG development | An activity report for the Technical Committee (now GCC) | July 2016 | ACHIEVED |
| ISM | Gain support for the SIG from the community | Steering Committee members from at least 3 different organisations | August 2015 | ACHIEVED |
| NOC | Discuss, design and develop recommendations for a NOC Personnel’s Training (basic) and potential Certification Programme in order to bring/keep NOC staff up to the “standard” level. | List of recommendations | April 2016 | ACHIEVED |
| NOC | Invite NOC tool developers and organize half-day technical tutorial sessions on various products/topics. | 1 or 2 tutorials
| April 2016 | ACHIEVED |
| NOC | Extend the reach of the community to regional, metropolitan and campus NOCs. | 2-3 new NOCs to join in this category
| April 2016 | ACHIEVED |
| Greenhouse | Establish a framework for the proposed Conservancy | Agree MoU with NLnet for Commons Conservancy Work with 2 projects on Commons Conservancy model | July 2016 | ACHIEVED |
| Greenhouse | Establish baseline of software use and requirements for NRENs and the NREN community | Create list of Open Source products produced by NRENs and in use with service dependency.
| March 2016 | ACHIEVED |
| Greenhouse | Establish and promote recommended software quality process for NRENs | Process description on wiki and tested by three projects | December 2016 | NOT ACHIEVED |
| SCOPE | Write and or revise and publish Best Practice Documents including environmental elements | 2 Best Practice documents | May 2017 | NOT STARTED |
| SCOPE | Establish the community through face-to-face and online meetings | two meetings organised and held online or face to face | May 2017 | ONGOING |
| SCOPE | Establish a structure and plan for the future to align the Green ICT and Campus Best Practice works streams | Sustainability plan Manifesto | May 2017 | ONGOING |
| NGN | Support the NREN community through face-to-face meetings, online meetings and mailing list discussions |
| Nov 2016 | 40 PEOPLE 28 ORGS
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