Middleware for collaborative Applications and Global vIrtual Communities

Evaluation of pilot and services, user perception, and implementation effort

The focus in this deliverable is to present the feedback from a selected group of users or communities that evaluate the pilot. The evaluation will be designed to understand the value seen in the overall solution and model.

Progress report (Second Reporting Period)

This deliverable will describe the achievements of the project in the between months 13 and 24.

Interim Progress Report (M13-M18)

This deliverable will describe the achievements of the project in months 13 through 18. It will also include an assessment of the work plan for the remaining 6 months with an update of the risks faced and mitigations applied.

Third Dissemination and Training Report

This document will be an update of the D.6.4.

Annual report on Global Virtual Days in priority worldwide fields and on International Calls InfoDays transmitted.

Second annual report of at least four Global Virtual Days organised with live streaming in a minimum of one MAGIC region per videoconference and webcast to others regions and, report of at least two continental videoconferences organised and coordinated with the purpose of disseminating the funding opportunities available in H2020 and other funding opportunities.

Recommendation on service requirements for cloud providers in Academic cloud infrastructures.

The recommendation contained on this deliverable will provide a way to standardise security, privacy, and other requirements that will lead to better services for NREN users. In order to be able to share, the NRENs must have a guide to ensure they are doing their best to protect users from poor service levels or security threats.

Guidelines, objective, directives and strategic work plan of the MAGIC Global Science Communities

This deliverable will contain results of the establishment of the three global science communities, including their guidelines and objectives plus the directives for the management of each community. A strategic work plan for year 1 will be provided, including a monitoring and evaluation plan for the following year; this plan will focus on the consolidation and sustainable growth of the three global communities. Also, this deliverable will include a report on the study of the priority scientific areas for the MAGIC regions.

Assessment of the existing group management standards, NREN tools and value services for the global communities.

The group will research the applications, group management functions, and available standards. In this deliverable, the work package group will report the results of this research and will identify the recommendations that will serve the design. Furthermore, the group will also search for applications that can be used for the pilot, so that the group sharing and management capabilities can be practically demonstrated.

Roadmap for the delivery and deployment of National AAIs in Project regions.

This deliverable will provide a roadmap for the deployment of AAIs in the countries concerned; it will also include the funding/business models for national identity federations and their interoperation with the eduGAIN interfederation service.

Report on Worldwide User communities virtual meetings and seminars

Each virtual activity will be followed by a specific report on the event. These reports will subsequently be consolidated in a general report on all virtual meetings and seminars. It is the General Report which will be considered as the final derivable.

First Dissemination and Training Plan and Baseline

The document will refer to all the activities carried out before the project starts in order to ensure its proper dissemination from Day 1. The deliverable will describe the dissemination plan, the MAGIC branding, documents and presentation templates, the MAGIC newsletter and the project website and tools implemented for the measurement of outreach and impact of both the newsletter and the website. It will depict those international events in which the MAGIC project should be represented for its dissemination in the form of a booth and/or in the form of a presentation that should be given to the event’s audience. The deliverable will also present the agenda of MAGIC training activities for both years of the project, explaining the reasons for the venues chosen and the actions and procedures that will be involved in the organisation and implementation of the training courses in general and of those to be carried out during the first year of the project in particular; the training courses are those as defined by WP2 (Platforms for Mobility), WP4 (Agreements for Real Time Collaboration) and WP5 (Global Science Communities). The deliverable will also refer to the support that WP6 will give to the aforementioned WPs for the translation (English and French), graphic design and publication of their training on the Moodle on-line training platform.

Second Dissemination and Training Report

This document will be an update of the D.6.3.

First Dissemination and Training Report

This document will be an update of D.6.1, revising the first semester of the project and giving indications of the actions that will be taken to continue disseminating the project and its benefits; it will revise the MAGIC project’s participation in international events during the given period and will define the future participation in those events for its dissemination in the form of a booth and/or a presentation that given to the event’s audience. It will refer to the statistics of use and visits of both main dissemination channels: the project website and the newsletter, evaluating the on-line outreach of the project and giving indications about what will be done in order to maintain and/or enhance the given outreach for the project’s benefit. It will also provide a review of the training activities carried out during the first six months of the Project and will depict the training activities of the future months.

MAGIC’s on-line presence report

The deliverable will refer to the MAGIC website in depth in terms of its navigation map, the platform on which it will be based, languages, and how its use and utility will be measured. The document will also refer to the MAGIC presence in social media, specifically Facebook and Twitter.

Annual report on Global Virtual Days in priority worldwide fields and on International Calls InfoDays transmitted

First annual report of at least four Global Virtual Days organised with live streaming in a minimum of one MAGIC region per videoconference and webcast to other regions and, report of at least two continental videoconferences organised and coordinated with the purpose of disseminating the funding opportunities available in H2020 and other funding opportunities.

Planning and design requirements for the group management and inter-operations standards and pilot implementation

The working group will define the requirements for the group inter-operation framework purpose of the work package. In this deliverable, the design requirements will define how group information sharing should work, and what basic elements will exist, including security, interfaces, authorisation mechanisms among others. Furthermore, the planning will include the definition of the pilot implementation, which service will be used, the use cases for the pilot, and integration with the group information.

Progress Report (First Reporting Period)

This deliverable will describe the achievements of the project between months 1 and 12 . It will also include an assessment of the work plan for the remaining 12 months with an update of the risks faced and mitigations applied.

Final Report

This deliverable will describe the achievements of the whole project.

AAI Preparation (Assess the Identity Management of participating institutions)

Document containing all the necessary information required for AAI Implementation at the two NRENs per region participating in the project. This document will contain implementation strategy to be used by NREN Focal Points

Interim Progress Report (M1-M6)

This deliverable will describe the achievements of the project in the first 6 months. It will also include an assessment of the work plan for the remaining 18 months with an update of the risks faced and mitigations applied.

AAI implementation.

After the AAI Pilot, the NRENs Focal Points will provide technical follow-ups in order to roll out into production state an AAI infrastructure, connecting at least to the NREN’s user database. Besides infrastructure, the NRENs will create all governance documentation and website, to be able to join eduGAIN in a pilot state

eduroam Implementation.

After eduroam pilot, the NRENs Focal Points will provide technical follow-ups in order to roll out into production state an eduroam infrastructure, using the same AAI user database. Besides infrastructure the NRENs will create all governance documentation and website, to be able to join the global eduroam

AAI and eduroam boot camp for experts training

Development of in-class training material and methodology to be used on Focal Point expert technical staff training. The material will be developed to be used in class only; there will be printed material.

Collaboration portal implemented for 2 new NRENs

Two new NRENs will have applications portals for their organisations in this phase. The implementation will be done as in the ELCIRA project, and will allow the NRENs to work actively in the development of the new group management standards.

Pilot test of an integration between the legacy global video network with one open-source web-conference, and a VoIP network based on NRENum

In the pilot test, the working group will show a system with a use case that implements a direct integration of the SIP network with the legacy video network. The use case will implement dialling using NRENum.net.

On-line Training Material on AAI development for Staff training

Development of Training Material to be used by Focal Point experts to provide technical staff training. The material will be development to be used online only; there will be no printed material.

eduroam Pilot.

After the online training, the NRENs Focal Points will provide technical follow-ups in order to create an eduroam infrastructure, in pilot basis, using the same AAI user database.

Online course and video tutorial on how to deploy a unified communications network

As the result from the guidelines and the pilot experience, this on-line course will be an easy-to-set-up guide for other NRENs that could implement this integration.

AAI Pilot.

After the online training, the NREN Focal Points will provide technical follow-ups in order to create an AAI infrastructure, in pilot basis, with a small user database.

NRENum.net deployed in six new NRENs

The working group will support six new NRENs that will deploy the NRENum.net service for their countries. In the specified Month, the implementations will be done, and the institutions will be able to dial using the NRENum.net tree.

Online training on implementing the NRENum.net service for global video dialling.

This training material will be deployed as a tool for the NRENs that have not implemented the NRENum.net service for their organisations. The guide will show the step-by-step instructions to enable NRENum, how to configure it, how to register with the NRENum.net tree, and the general recommendations to configure terminals, gatekeepers, or SBC.

Three (newly delegated countries or already members) participants that secured the country code prefix ENUM zone with DNSSec.

The group will promote and support the deployment of a DNSSec implementation by three NRENs. These NRENs could be current NRENum.net or project members.

Pilot service with one application sharing group information and service catalogue

The pilot service will have an application using group information present in a different cloud implementation. The implemented use case will take advantage of the groups in meaningful scenarios such as improving the user experience, enhancing a functionality, avoiding work duplication or providing better security. The pilot will also include the deployment of the RedCLARA application portal by two NRENs.

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