Hi all,
On behalf of the Leadership Team, welcome to 2023! I hope that this coming year is productive and fun for all of you.
At the last Community VCs, we pencilled in a pair of upcoming VCs for this week to be focused on Working-Group updates. We’ve decided to push this back a month to give us a bit more time to prepare. In order to have enough time for each Working-Group, we’re also planning on running two pairs of VCs.
Please pencil in 15 February 6-8 am UTC and 8-10 pm UTC for the first pair of VCs. Event page with registration links is at https://www.gna-g.net/attend-a-meeting/gna-g-community-vcs-q1-2023/
The second pair will likely be on 28 February, however we’re still finalising the best time-slots for this one.
Looking forward to seeing you then!
Regards,
David
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David Wilde -- CTO | AARNet
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Dear GNA-G community member,
The GNA-G Nominations Committee (NomCom) is pleased to announce 4 nominees for the GNA-G Leadership Team (LT). Now is the time for the GNA-G community to give feedback and guidance to the NomCom.
The nominees
On January 15th the NomCom opened the call for Nominations. We are very happy with the response to that call. We are pleased to announce the nominated individuals:
* Jennifer Schopf (TACC/UT, USA)
* Ed Moynihan (Indiana University, USA)
* Alex Moura (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)
* Richard Klinger (Canarie, Canada)
The current Leadership Team consists of five co-chairs: Buseung Cho (KISTI, Korea), Harvey Newman (Caltech, USA), David Wilde (AARnet, Australia), Marco Teixeira (RedClara, Brazil), Ivana Golub (PSNC, Poland/Croatia) and has one vacancy that will be filled with one of the candidates above, selected by the NomCom. The attached document presents each of the nominees, including their motivation, their nominators and seconders.
Request for feedback
To assist the NomCom in selecting the candidate with the best fit for the LT, the NomCom seeks community advice. If you prefer one of the nominees, have a view on the best composition of the LT, or have other advice for the NomCom, please let us know.
Feedback can be sent to: nominations(a)lists.gna-g.net or the NomCom members individually. All feedback will be treated confidentially and will only be used by the NomCom for deciding how to fill the open LT position.
Nomination Timeline
16 January 2023 - Call for Nominations opens
31 January 2023 - Nominations close
4 February 2023 - Announcement of candidates by the NomCom, community feedback opens
28 February 2023 - Community feedback closes
15 March 2023 - NomCom announces new LT member.
NomCom members
• Celeste Anderson (Pacific Wave) – USA
• Lars Fischer (NORDUnet) – European Nordics
• Alexander van den Hil (SURF) – The Netherlands
• Bruno Hoeft (KIT) – Germany
• Michael Stanton (RNP) – Brazil
Should you have any questions or need further information, please feel free to reach out to (one of) the NomCom members.
Kind regards,
Alexander van den Hil
SURF
All,
For those of you that joined yesterday’s GNA-G community VC 1a<https://www.gna-g.net/attend-a-meeting/gna-g-community-vcs-q1a-2023/>, you have seen my presentation for the new GREN Engineering Advancement workgroup (if you want you can download them from https://filesender.surf.nl/?s=download&token=651fac23-a738-456e-81f2-a6b01a… link valid till march 9th, afterwards if they are unavailable on the GNA-G website drop me an e-mail).
The aim of this workgroup pioneer, try, test, experiment with solutions to better/more efficiently/redundantly run services over links part of the GNA-G. We have been doing vlan engineering for ever and know the downsides of it. On the other hand, almost all of us run a MPLS enabled network that provides far more protection/redundancy/fast failover. What can we do to also bring this into the world of GNA-G and the links with which we interconnect NREN’s? This workgroup wants to inventorize what possibilities are out there and test them. This knowledge will be distributes to the relevant engineering groups running systems like ANA-Engineering or AER-Engineering. Who on there turn can provide feedback for additional testing or ideally decide to implement it.
The goal of this workgroup is therefor strictly focussed how can we enhance operation on systems between production networks. So no very experimental stuff like thing that could be considered in the Data Intensive Science workgroup as prototyping and pre-production.
Over the past months I’ve reached out to the ANA partners at Nordunet 2022, SuperComputing 2022 and Internet2 TechEX 2022 and noticed a lot of enthusiasm and interest in this subject. With this I want to call for engineers interested in participating in this workgroup. Folks that have ideas and can contribute in testing them. You can sign up to the mailing list at https://lists.gna-g.net/postorius/lists/gren-engineering-wg.lists.gna-g.net/. From there we’ll start planning for an initial call to kick things of.
Attached the draft 0.9 charter of this workgroup
Pieter
