OSG Staff Retreat

27 Jul 2009, 08:00 → 31 Jul 2009, 18:00 US/Central

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday will be located in Room #4310, Wednesday will be located in Room #2310 until 3:30 pm then in Room# 4259 (UW - Madison Computer Sciences Department)

Both a blueprint and planning for the next years work. INFORMATION POSTED AT TWIKI SITE To particpate in the Staff Retreat: Please participate in the “Doodle poll” link below to indicate your plans: Doodle Poll Thank you in advance for your participation. We look foward to seeing you there. Travel Information: For travel information to Madison please visit: Directions Hotel Information: For hotel informaiton please visit Nearby Hotels and Restaurants Parking: Please email Sarah Cushing at cushing@cs.wisc.edu at least a week prior to arrival for free parking passes to be arranged. If you are unable to arrange parking prior to the meeting, parking is $8.00 per day located at Ramp 17. Please see below for directions. Directions to Ramp 17 Please note for parking: Be careful--due to construction, it's challenging to walk from Ramp 17 to the office building. Unfortunately the construction is changing the route regularly. Please allow extra time for your travel as there is alot of construction in the area. If you park and have to walk, you will be able to find a current pedestrian map here: Pedestrian Map

Monday, 27 July

10:00 → 10:30 Mail Catchup

10:30 → 16:00 OSG Staff Retreat - Day 1

TED Part 1 - Dan Fraser

Overarching issues for FY10 - Ruth

Area Coordinator 2010 Programs of Work:

* 1.0.1 Software Tools Group – Alain Roy, Mine Altunay

• 1.0.2 Production Coordination – Dan Fraser

• 1.1 Software – Alain Roy (Storage – Tanya Levshina)

• 1.7 Security - Mine Altunay

16:00 → 18:00 Executive Planning Session

Tuesday, 28 July

08:30 → 09:00 Mail Catchup

09:00 → 16:00 OSG Staff Retreat - Day 2

Blueprint discussions:

BDII Root Cause analysis
$OSGAPP

• 2.2 Work Load Management – Maxim Potekhin

• 3.1 Metrics & Measurements – Brian Bockelman

Campus expectations
Processes/Expectations interacting with External Software Providers
Host as input configuration parameter to OSG VDT installs

• 1.2 Operations – Rob Quick
• 1.3 Integration & Sites – Rob Gardner
• 1.4 VOs – Abhishek Rana
• 1.5 Engagement - Mats Rynge for John McGee
• 1.6 Campus Grids – Mats Rynge for Sebastien Goasguen

16:00 → 18:00 Executive Planning Session

Wednesday, 29 July

09:00 → 14:00 OSG Staff Retreat - Day 3

TED Part 2 - Alain Roy

Area Coordinator 2010 Programs of Work:
* 2.1 Scalability, Reliability and Usability – Igor Sfiligoi
* 1.0.3 Biology & Biomedical Outreach – ? for Piotr Sliz
* 1.8 Training & Content Management – Ruth for Jim Weichel
* 2.4 Internet2 Network Monitoring – ? for Richard Carlson
* 3.2 Communications & Education – Dave Ritchie
* 3.3 Project Management – Chander Sehgal

Storage questions from Monday

Host as input configuration parameter to OSG VDT installs

14:00 → 16:00 Finalize plans to generate the FY10 program of work

16:00 → 18:00 Executive Planning for Thursday session

Thursday, 30 July

09:00 → 16:00 OSG-TG

Friday, 31 July

09:00 → 12:00 Planning Session - Closed

planning session for some members of the Executive Board

Processes/Expectations interacting with External Software Providers

Meet with Bart Miller

Staffing Organization