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GA 21, Rhodos 1Dorte Olesen <[email protected]>
The future evolution of
TERENA and its collaboration with
DANTE and the NREN PC
Dorte Olesen
GA 21, Rhodos 2Dorte Olesen <[email protected]>
What does TERENA bring to its members?
• Providing technical/administrative support to task-forces and similar groups in technical areas of common interest to the membership
• Providing project-officer support to technical projects
• Organising workshops on (new) topical technical subjects of common interest to the membership
GA 21, Rhodos 3Dorte Olesen <[email protected]>
What does TERENA bring to its members?
• Providing an environment for fostering new initiatives of the European research networking community
• Organising the annual TERENA networking conference
• Organising an annual seminar for the TERENA General Assembly
• Providing support in various ways to less advanced networking organisations
GA 21, Rhodos 4Dorte Olesen <[email protected]>
What does TERENA bring to its members?
• Providing (technical and managerial) advice and assistance to TERENA member organisations, and promote knowledge transfer
• Promoting members’ interests by representing the common interests and opinions of the membership in contacts with relevant organisations
• Providing support to the TERENA GA, TEC, TAC and TTC
GA 21, Rhodos 5Dorte Olesen <[email protected]>
What does TERENA bring to its members?
• Providing a TERENA website with up-to-date information
• Offering meeting facilities in the TERENA offices to members.
GA 21, Rhodos 6Dorte Olesen <[email protected]>
Can TERENA do more?
• Publish a short monthly executive newsletter to the GA?
• Organise practical, small projects of immediate benefit to members (such as those of TF-PR and the TACAR initiative)?
• What would YOU like your organisation to do for you?
GA 21, Rhodos 7Dorte Olesen <[email protected]>
Collaboration with DANTE
• A working group consisting of members from the TEC and the DANTE BoD started work in February 2003.
• Two meetings have taken place, but the work has not yet been completed – due mainly to the workload in connection with preparation of the GN2 proposal
GA 21, Rhodos 8Dorte Olesen <[email protected]>
Collaboration with DANTE
• Overall impression: the collaboration is good and in many respects it is quite clear who takes care of what.
• Still, the study should be finished, in order to get a clear overview of the division of tasks, also outside the GN2 project.
GA 21, Rhodos 9Dorte Olesen <[email protected]>
Membership of the NREN Consortium
• GN2 is a broader project than GN1
• The EC has a strong wish that the European network should be seen as an entity, encompassing both the international backbone and the national networks
GA 21, Rhodos 10Dorte Olesen <[email protected]>
Membership of the NREN Consortium
• Research, development and foresight studies are now also part of GN2, not independent projects
• TERENA will coordinate a series of activities. DANTE is overall coordinator of the project
• There is an impressive overlap between the members in the NREN PC and the members of the TERENA GA
GA 21, Rhodos 11Dorte Olesen <[email protected]>
Conclusions and recommendations
• The DANTE-TERENA collaboration study should be finished in September – so conclusions can be discussed at the October GA
• TERENA should start a monthly ”executive” newsletter immediately
GA 21, Rhodos 12Dorte Olesen <[email protected]>
Conclusions and recommendations
• The GA should consider formulating some ”challenges” for NRENs and the joint European networks
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