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OGSA-DAI Experience

Facilitating Collaborations tooling

and processes


Background

• OGSA-DAI started as a distributed projecto IBM Hursleyo Oracleo Edinburgho Newcastleo Manchestero …

• Set infrastructure to establish collaborative environment

o Incremental build up


The essentials

• Code Repositoryo We used CVS

• Closed but now opening up• http://cvs.ogsadai.org.uk

• Web siteo Hard to do wello Link to the outside world

• http://www.ogsadai.org.uk

• Brandingo What's in a name? that which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet; …


Essentials II

• Communicationso Face-to-face meetings

• Folks got to put names to faces

o Access Grid (AG) meetings• Worked when AG worked …

o Telcons• Mainly for management … or when AG did not work

…

o Mailing lists• Internal – between members• External – communicate with a user base• Archives (searchable) Important!!


Things that worked well

• IRC (Internet Relay Chat) – chat roomo Have our own (closed) servero Really helped to build team espirit de corpso Forum for technical discussionso Keeping server logs really useful

• Messaging (MSN/Skype/AIM/GoogleTalk/…)o Mostly point to point

• Meeting Schedulero Doodl, Meet-o-matic

• Wiki (we used twiki)o Mainly acted as a document repositoryo Organic growtho Hard to find things


Things that did not work so well

• Bugzillao Started off as a bug trackero Became all things to all meno Lost effectiveness and got deprecatedo Do support through the user mailing list


Things we are playing with now

• TRACo Issue tracking/wiki/

• Blogo Effective way of disseminating to

community


Other things we’ve not tried …

• Forums• Guestbooks• Documentation annotators• Surveys

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