Report of theInterim Executive Board

Frank WürthweinUCSD

OSG Council Meeting

May 3rd 2005, Madison

Focus on what’s needed for Open Science Grid to start

operations.

Evolve structures and procedures in the future as

needed.

Governance Documents

• Charter (Dec. 2004)• By-Laws (Feb. 2005)• Governance Procedures (Today)• For users and providers: (Feb. 2005)

– Service Agreement– Acceptable Use Policy– Revisions to synch with LCG are imminent

• Everything we need for initial OSG operations is in place by tomorrow.

Governing Bodies

Let’s go through these one by one.

Council

• One representative per member organization.• Initial member organizations selected by tg-

governance via By-Laws process.• Reps. Chosen by Orgs themselves after

solicitation from Pordes & fkw• All filled except BTeV, ANL, JLAB, VDT• Is that good enough to get going?• Meets via phone on Tuesdays 10am pacific

as needed.• Meetings convened by fkw as Chair of ieb.

IEB Activities

• Everything concerning governance of OSG was deliberated and dealt with in the open by tg-governance or the council.

• Very few email exchanges, and no meetings within the ieb, excluding the council.

• Thus, nothing to report.• Is there a need to establish EB now?

Advisory Committee

• Do not have one.

• Is there a need to establish one now?

Technical groups

• Anybody can propose one to Council or Executive Board.

• Somebody on Council or Executive Board propose chairs & charge.

• Council or Executive Board deliberates and approves.

Existing TGs

• Governance• MIS Green, Steenberg• Policy Dobson• Security Cowles, Skow• Storage Kennedy, Sheldon• Education Bardeen• Support Centers Walters, Pearson• Networking Petravick, McKee

Activities

• Anybody within OSG may form one.

• Only required to inform Council & EB so that tg’s and other activities can be informed to allow for co-ordination.

• Truly a self-organized structure.

Existing Activities

• Blueprint• Deployment• DRM Deployment• Incident Response• Integration• Interoperability• Operations• Provisioning• Documents

Events

• LHC Roadmap meeting (tomorrow)• Applications Meeting (June 1-2nd)• Consortium Meeting (July 20-22nd)• Meetings we should have in Fall 2005:

– Blueprint ?– OSG Roadmap ?– Applications Feedback ?– Joint OSG-LCG/EGEE operations ?

Summary

• As part of this morning’s discussion on governing procedures, I’d like to understand if people think this is good enough to get started.

• Personally, I think it’s good enough.

AnnouncementOSG has a Grid Communicator: Kate Y.