P&S Monthly Telecon - August 13, 2012
From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
Back to: Products and Services
Info and Notes for: ESIP Products & Services Telecon - Monday, August 13 @ 1pm CT / 2pm ET
Call-in details:
- 1-877-668-4493
- Attendee Access code: 23140358#
WebEx online access: https://esipfed.webex.com/mw0306ld/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=esipfed
Note: the access code above (with no spaces or dashes) is the password for the online access
Participants: Erin, Carol, Phil, Chen, Jing, Tom Narock, Eugene, Christine, Hook, Ken
Agenda and Notes:
- Summer meeting and Testbed session debrief
- Notes on wiki: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Testbed_Session_at_ESIP_Summer_Meeting,_July_18,_2012
- Notes on Commons: http://commons.esipfed.org/node/451
- Use of cloud resources was big focus of discussions - momentum in that direction
- Possible ways/ideas to set up ESIP cloud? Anyone want to be involved?
- virtual meetings went off well at the meeting - good resources
- need clearer workflows for cloud resources
- winter meeting venue so everyone can hear what is available - Commons, other services - workshop, lab - figure out workflow and steps in advance
- cloud workshop - hands-on for interested people, best practices
- Poster session demonstrations - useful?
- Christine - was not especially productive for Testbed exposure
- Jing - not good participation/traffic
- Erin - maybe use coffee breaks or other defined times for demonstration
- Probably needed better delineation of Testbed demonstration area and someone (Ken) present to discuss the Testbed in general and point to the specific example projects
- Migration of Testbed portal to ESIP/Commons environment
- Ongoing: converting from drupal v6 to v7 (from Jing)
- We tried to upgrade from Drupal 6 but there are quite a few comparability issues.
- We configured a drupal 7 based site and moved the content of the old site to the version 7 swp.gmu.edu/esiptestbedv7.
- You may not be able to access the old and new site due to the network issue of the university. Our IT administrator is working on this.
- Will be...integrating with user authorization from commons
- still need review/testing of site http://swp.gmu.edu/esiptestbed/
- Ongoing: converting from drupal v6 to v7 (from Jing)
- Looking for new Testbed projects - below are a couple possibles
- AGU publications as linked data (Tom Narock and Eric Rozell)
- Funding Friday last year
- connections between paper authors - as ESIP members
- additional data from NSF, more ESIP meeting info, Earth Cube
- small prototype on university computer - need better collaboration
- investigate porting to cloud resources
- NOAA use of GeoServer to support GeoPlatforms (Matt Austin, Micah Wengren)
- might be able to build off of GeoPortal project
- others? Need to get the word out
- AGU publications as linked data (Tom Narock and Eric Rozell)
- Looking ahead - Winter meeting plans (already?)
- High profile/exposure for ESIP services - plenary presentation?
- Commons/Portal
- Testbed
- Cloud/web hosting
- Code management - software as an asset for the community
- High profile/exposure for ESIP services - plenary presentation?
- ExCom meeting items...
- All Testbed projects need to create a State of Art document in Commons
- Committee budgets - get budget forms from Carol and provide suggestions on ongoing infrastructure costs, known/expected projects to fund and then some funding for possible project proposals
- Suggestions for monthly meeting topics/presentations
- Use of Testbed to support workshops (Hook) - hack-a-thon use of cloud resources - maybe as ESIP services, but maybe a Testbed activity as well
- use of multiple virtual environments - example RAMADDA made accessible to everyone in workshop concurrently
- Use with eucalyptus as another environment (Jing) - GMU interest
- ESIP is currently paying for Amazon services for use by Testbed and others
- Possible collaboration with JPL for Amazon - need a plan for a good opportunity
- Use of re-usable and re-purposed services and capabilities through the cloud without the overhead of administration
- Use of Testbed to support workshops (Hook) - hack-a-thon use of cloud resources - maybe as ESIP services, but maybe a Testbed activity as well
- Earth Cube Broker Hack-a-thon opportunity - Christine is heading up. Will be good exposure for ESIP and Discovery efforts. WebEx sessions have been setup. Christine will provide more information to Discovery Cluster and P&S email lists.
