Outreach

Please find attached the results of the D4Science World User Meeting survey.

The survey has been completed by 31 persons that take out more than 37% of all the participants.

Kind reminder to all D4Science World User Meeting participants to send us your feedback about this event by filling a short questionnaire at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=5b7rXWfGqfej_2b7He96yAag_3d_3d.

The survey will be closed next Wednesday, 16 December 2009.

Your impressions and proposals for future editions and areas of improvement are highly appreciated.
Thank you for taking part in the D4Science World User Meeting!

To all D4Science World User Meeting participants, we wish this event was a fruitful and innovative learning experience as well as an opportunity to share knowledge.

We encourage you to send us your feedback about this event by filling a short questionnaire at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=5b7rXWfGqfej_2b7He96yAag_3d_3d.

Your impressions and proposals for future editions and areas of improvement are highly appreciated!
Thank you for taking part in the D4Science World User Meeting!

The GridTalk team, participating in the D4Science World User Meeting, has played a major dissemination role and brought the following five live news, plus photos and tweets.

• 'We don't want to reinvent the wheel' - an interview with D4Science 
• Through the D4Science Portal 
• A picture is worth a thousand words 
• The library of the future 
• D4Science World User Meeting 

The D4Science World User Meeting is the 'Event of the week' on the latest iSGTW, the International Science Grid This Week.

iSGTW is an international, weekly, on-line science-computing newsletter that shows the importance of distributed computing, cloud computing and supercomputing. It does so by reporting about the people and projects involved in these fields, and how these types of computing technologies are being applied to make scientific advances., providing weekly news from the worldwide scientific grid computing community.

D4Science is teaming up with GridTalk to bring you live news, photos and tweets  from the D4Science World User Meeting starting this week on Wednesday 25 November. Follow their blog posts on gridtalk-project.blogspot.com.

The recently published press release entitled ‘D4Science-II drives forward the science e-resource revolution’ has been translated into seven languages (French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Spanish), in order to increase the awareness and understanding of the D4Science’s global user communities and to capture greater Internet audience.

The new EU-funded project D4Science-II ('Data infrastructure ecosystem for science') has held its kick-off meeting from 13 to 16 October in Pisa, Italy. It is set to establish 'virtual research environments' that will offer significantly enhanced services to scientists without high development and maintenance costs.

D4Science-II started on October 1st 2009 as one of the main European e-Infrastructure projects, involving 10 participants such as the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Co-funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, the D4Science-II project will hold its kick-off meeting 13-16 October 2009 in Pisa, Italy.

The D4Science project actively participated in the EGEE'09 conference held at the Hotel Barcelo Sants in Barcelona between the 21 and 25 September 2009. The conference was attended by more than 630 delegates from many different countries and focused on the future of grid computing in Europe and in particular the plans towards the new European Grid Initiative (EGI).

Five members of the D4Science consortium attended this international event, including the Project Director, the Technical Director, user community representatives and operational staff. They contributed to the conference agenda with 1) a Session and 2) a Demonstration.