Invitation to the next SyA video-meeting on Wednesday 4th May at 13:00 - 15:00 CEST

12 Apr 2016

Dear SyA members/RDA Europe WG/IG Co-Chairs,
As we have been communicating, the next SyA assembly meeting will be held on Wednesday 4th May 2016 @ 13:00 - 15:00 CEST as a videoconference. It will also be possible to phone in. The details will be in the Wiki soon. As it is a virtual meeting we need to match everything into approximately 2 hours. I can reserve the conference space for one extra hour, just for discussions if needed but the meeting itself will be between 13:00 - 15:00 CEST.
Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.
https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/540032933
Access Code: 540-032-933
Details for phoning into the conference at the bottom of this mail.
To be able to address all things communicated to RDA Global and RDA Europe it has been decided that the full meeting time will be spent on the discussion on the sustainability of RDA and the agenda will be built accordingly.
Agenda:
1) Welcome and introduction to the RDA Europe Synchronisation Assembly concept
2) Short intro on the RDA Future Directions Document - Hilary Hanahoe
Link to the document Wiki page: https://rd-alliance.org/rda-future-directions-document-rda-communication...
3) Discussion around the planning for the RDA Europe 4
Information about RDA sustainability plans from other continents (US/AU) - Ross Wilkinson & N.N.
INFRASUPP-02-2017: Policy and international cooperation measures for research infrastructures
Deadline 29 Mar 2017
Link: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunitie...
Collected experience from the European Co-Chairs in the RDA WG/IG, in particular on the support and activities needed from RDA Europe and RDA Global - European WG/IG Co-Chairs.
Comments and input from European RDA Organisational Members - RDA Organisational Members
Information from the Commission (DG CONNECT/RTD) - Input from the Commission - Augusto Burgueño Arjona
European Open Science Cloud/Commission Communication on Cloud
4) Concrete actions to be taken in Europe to secure the European support for RDA
A Brainstorming F2F meeting to assess goals to be met and who wishes to contribute is planned for 14th & 15th June in Amsterdam. Either as a noon to noon meeting (14 - 15.6) or a full day on either 14th or 15th June.
This agenda and all other support material will be available through the Wiki space on the RDA web site at:
https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/rda-europe-synchronisation-assembly-sya
You can log in with your RDA credentials.
If you wish to communicate with the other members of the group, you can use the “***@***.***-groups.org ” mail address.
To request access, if you have not registered already, please register on https://rd-alliance.org/user/register and notify the group chairs (Juan Bicarregui, Leif Laaksonen) that you’d like to join the group, make sure you mention your username to ease the subscription process.
For a quick subscription request, please click on the follow link Join the SyA Group it will open up an email already configured to help you out.
To already have concrete suggestions available at the meeting we are encouraging the participants to mail either Leif (***@***.*** ) or Juan (***@***.*** ) your personal wish list by filling the template preferable already before the meeting but if not possible after the meeting:
My preferences are
(a) support to the RDA secretariat for logistics, open access to RDA reference documents and dissemination activities
Essentials:
Essential 1:
Essential 2:
...
Nice to haves:
Nice to have 1:
Nice to have 2:
...
(b) support the emergence of building blocks of an open, interoperable data infrastructure fostering interoperability across regions, organisations and scientific disciplines
Essential 1:
Essential 2:
...
Nice to haves:
Nice to have 1:
Nice to have 2:
...
(c) support ESFRI infrastructures and new communities to engage in Open Science and data sharing principles. In particular, the proposal activities should provide financial support of the organisation and coordination of European stakeholders' active participation and contribution to the Research Data Alliance
Essential 1:
Essential 2:
...
Nice to haves:
Nice to have 1:
Nice to have 2:
...
Best wishes and welcome to the SyA meeting on the 4th May 2016.
— Juan & Leif
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Leif Laaksonen, Director, CSC, P.O. Box 405, FI-02101 Espoo, Finland,
(Street address: Keilaranta 14), phone: +358-9-4572378,
fax: +358-9-4572302, CSC is the Finnish IT Center for Science, www.csc.fi.
E-mail: ***@***.***, http://www.leiflaaksonen.eu/
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Access Code: 540-032-933
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  • Jamie Shiers's picture

    Author: Jamie Shiers

    Date: 15 Apr, 2016

    Dear Leif,
    Sustainability was discussed at the OA(B) call yesterday and also it seems elsewhere, e.g. Council.
    Perhaps it would be good if these efforts could join up (and become one?)
    In any case, I volunteered for an eventual OAB sub-group on this topic.
    It was also unclear to me whether the 3 items below are just examples, or whether they are the only items that you would like input on. (I hope the former).
    Cheers, Jamie
    On 12 Apr 2016, at 08:54, Leif Laaksonen <***@***.***> wrote:
    Dear SyA members/RDA Europe WG/IG Co-Chairs,
    As we have been communicating, the next SyA assembly meeting will be held on Wednesday 4th May 2016 @ 13:00 - 15:00 CEST as a videoconference. It will also be possible to phone in. The details will be in the Wiki soon. As it is a virtual meeting we need to match everything into approximately 2 hours. I can reserve the conference space for one extra hour, just for discussions if needed but the meeting itself will be between 13:00 - 15:00 CEST.
    Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.
    https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/540032933
    Access Code: 540-032-933
    Details for phoning into the conference at the bottom of this mail.
    To be able to address all things communicated to RDA Global and RDA Europe it has been decided that the full meeting time will be spent on the discussion on the sustainability of RDA and the agenda will be built accordingly.
    Agenda:
    1) Welcome and introduction to the RDA Europe Synchronisation Assembly concept
    2) Short intro on the RDA Future Directions Document - Hilary Hanahoe
    * Link to the document Wiki page: https://rd-alliance.org/rda-future-directions-document-rda-communication...
    3) Discussion around the planning for the RDA Europe 4
    * Information about RDA sustainability plans from other continents (US/AU) - Ross Wilkinson & N.N.
    * INFRASUPP-02-2017: Policy and international cooperation measures for research infrastructures
    * Deadline 29 Mar 2017
    * Link: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunitie...
    * Collected experience from the European Co-Chairs in the RDA WG/IG, in particular on the support and activities needed from RDA Europe and RDA Global - European WG/IG Co-Chairs.
    * Comments and input from European RDA Organisational Members - RDA Organisational Members
    * Information from the Commission (DG CONNECT/RTD) - Input from the Commission - Augusto Burgueño Arjona
    * European Open Science Cloud/Commission Communication on Cloud
    4) Concrete actions to be taken in Europe to secure the European support for RDA
    * A Brainstorming F2F meeting to assess goals to be met and who wishes to contribute is planned for 14th & 15th June in Amsterdam. Either as a noon to noon meeting (14 - 15.6) or a full day on either 14th or 15th June.
    This agenda and all other support material will be available through the Wiki space on the RDA web site at:
    https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/rda-europe-synchronisation-assembly-sya
    You can log in with your RDA credentials.
    If you wish to communicate with the other members of the group, you can use the “***@***.***-groups.org” mail address.
    To request access, if you have not registered already, please register on https://rd-alliance.org/user/register and notify the group chairs (Juan Bicarregui, Leif Laaksonen) that you’d like to join the group, make sure you mention your username to ease the subscription process.
    For a quick subscription request, please click on the follow link Join the SyA Group it will open up an email already configured to help you out.
    To already have concrete suggestions available at the meeting we are encouraging the participants to mail either Leif (***@***.***) or Juan (***@***.***) your personal wish list by filling the template preferable already before the meeting but if not possible after the meeting:
    My preferences are
    (a) support to the RDA secretariat for logistics, open access to RDA reference documents and dissemination activities
    Essentials:
    * Essential 1:
    * Essential 2:
    * ...
    Nice to haves:
    * Nice to have 1:
    * Nice to have 2:
    * ...
    (b) support the emergence of building blocks of an open, interoperable data infrastructure fostering interoperability across regions, organisations and scientific disciplines
    * Essential 1:
    * Essential 2:
    * ...
    Nice to haves:
    * Nice to have 1:
    * Nice to have 2:
    * ...
    (c) support ESFRI infrastructures and new communities to engage in Open Science and data sharing principles. In particular, the proposal activities should provide financial support of the organisation and coordination of European stakeholders' active participation and contribution to the Research Data Alliance
    * Essential 1:
    * Essential 2:
    * ...
    Nice to haves:
    * Nice to have 1:
    * Nice to have 2:
    * ...
    *
    Best wishes and welcome to the SyA meeting on the 4th May 2016.
    — Juan & Leif
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    Leif Laaksonen, Director, CSC, P.O. Box 405, FI-02101 Espoo, Finland,
    (Street address: Keilaranta 14), phone: +358-9-4572378,
    fax: +358-9-4572302, CSC is the Finnish IT Center for Science, www.csc.fi.
    E-mail: ***@***.***, http://www.leiflaaksonen.eu/
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    You can also dial in using your phone.
    Germany +49 (0) 692 5736 7317
    Access Code: 540-032-933
    More phone numbers
    United States (Long distance): +1 (646) 749-3129
    Australia (Long distance): +61 2 8355 1020
    Austria (Long distance): +43 1 2530 22520
    Belgium (Long distance): +32 (0) 28 08 4368
    Canada (Long distance): +1 (647) 497-9353
    Denmark (Long distance): +45 69 91 89 28
    Finland (Long distance): +358 (0) 942 59 7850
    France (Long distance): +33 (0) 170 950 594
    Ireland (Long distance): +353 (0) 15 360 728
    Italy (Long distance): +39 0 247 92 13 01
    Netherlands (Long distance): +31 (0) 208 080 219
    Spain (Long distance): +34 911 82 9906
    United Kingdom (Long distance): +44 (0) 330 221 0088

  • Leif Laaksonen's picture

    Author: Leif Laaksonen

    Date: 15 Apr, 2016

    Dear Jamie,
    Thank you very much for your input! Unfortunately I could not join you yesterday for the OA meeting.
    I expect your as well as others strong input in the section “Comments and input from European RDA Organisational Members - RDA Organisational Members”.
    To stir up some discussion we created as an example the 3 bullet point lists. The discussion must of course be must broader but as you said“ just examples”.
    I don’t have a clear picture yet how to structure this as we clearly have two overlapping things to discuss:
    1) The sustainability of the RDA activities (Council participation, WG/IG participation, implementations…) in Europe
    2) The sustainability of the RDA Global
    Thanks,
    — leif

  • Kevin Ashley's picture

    Author: Kevin Ashley

    Date: 04 May, 2016

    As our Secretary-General has expressed a clear view on how we
    express the time & date of RDA events in future (see
    https://www.rd-alliance.org/what-time-it-rda)
    I thought I should confirm, for myself if not anyone else, that we
    are expecting today's meeting to take place at 1200-1400 UTC.
    Is that correct?

  • Leif Laaksonen's picture

    Author: Leif Laaksonen

    Date: 04 May, 2016

    Hi Kevin,
    The meeting today is 13:00 - 15:00 CEST (Center European Summer Time), which should be quite well standardised.
    I am not sure how this converts to UTC but I suspect that is 11:00 - 13:00 UTC.
    — leif

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