Project Executive Board meeting notes - extracts for WP5

14 Feb 2023

Ana encourages partners to upload relevant materials to the training platform (Materials - PaN Training Catalogue (ExPaNDS/PaNOSC) (pan-training.eu)) or send them to the WP5 mailing list wp5@expands.eu.

WP5 is finishing the final deliverable and also is taking part in the sustainability discussions.

Oliver has made a video where the platform is presented.

Antoine has created some Github issues for the last open topics after the WP5 meeting.

31 Jan 2023

Oliver and Ana are working on a new video for beamline scientist.

Antoine reports that the platform is working again. But there is still some work to do.

17 Jan 2023

WP5 is preparing for closing event.

Antoine reports that Soleil is working on a workflow tool.

Uwe and Carlo about the PaN data portal as a main result of WP3. It has already been added to the training platform.

It should be published on the ExPaNDS and the PaNOSC website. Carlo and Uwe will talk to Andy.

20 Dec 2022

WP5 has worked on the PaNET ontology with PSI (training portal).

There are eleven workflows inside the PaN training portal.

Andy reports that there will be a workshop of LEAPS-INNOV WP7. Nicolas is also involved.

06 Dec 2022

Marta and Antoine have finished the last workflow. All workflows can be found on the training platform.

The work for the next deliverable is ongoing.

22 Nov 2022

WP5 is focussing on making latest developments and “cleaning” the platform and uploading the platform into the EOSC portal.

Oliver and Antoine are working on the sustainability paper from Sophie.

Oliver is helping in D4.5 . He attended all the meetings. He is primarily working on TELBE. He will also provide a PaN training section with screenshots and text including the other WP4 datasets/workflows.

Uwe is exploring the possibility of organizing an event at HZDR for beamline scientists.

08 Nov 2022

A poster was presented at the plenary assembly of LEAPS.

Oliver Knodel is participating and holding a presenting at the EOSC symposium.

Ana thanks Diamond for their help with the WP3 joint event at SOLEIL.

There will be no other public meeting with WP3 and WP4.

Sophie has reminded Ana and Oliver via email about the issue #18. That could be the content of D5.6.

25 Oct 2022

The last deliverable D5.6 seems to be a bit tricky. WP5 is not sure about the content.

Clara is coordinating the organisation of the PaNOSC + ExPANDS WP3 joint event. An open session will be organised on the second day.

Antoine searched for google metadata tags and tried to do the event search for google. It is only available in a few countries.

11 Oct 2022

EOSC Symposium Prague -Talk accepted. Oliver Knodel will make the presentation

LEAPS Plenary 2022 - Poster accepted. Ana and Uwe will attend the meeting

SOLEIL Users’ Meeting 2023

- round table about data, data services, training … Ana is one of the panellists. A poster will be also submitted

Organisation of the WS during the meeting at DESY will be launched beginning of November

PaNOSC/ExPaNDS joint WP3 workshop organisation is ongoing.

Antoine is planning the last workflow with Zdenek.

Several materials were added to the training platform (e.g. the VISA workshop materials, PaNOSC/ExPaNDS joint WP3 workshop announcement …).

27 Sep 2022

Abstract submitted to EOSC symposium , to users meeting at SOLEIL, to LEAPS.

Contact made to running H2020 and HE projects (LEAPS-INNOV, ERImote, ReMade).

With diamond creation of tab devoted to the PaN training in the ExPaNDS web site.

Organisation of workshops ongoing.

13 Sep 2022

Everything is ready for the VISA workshop on Friday.

Patrick needs to answer Clara the last questions.

There are 82 registrations.

30 Aug 2022

Antoine is working on the workflows for the training platform with Marta. The next workshop is about ptycho-tomography (with Zdenek), but the date is not fixed yet.

16 Aug 2022

Antoine and Marta are working on the workflows. The last meeting was about Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (STFC, Franz Lang) on 11th August 2022. The next meeting is about Serial Crystallography (DESY, Anton Barty).

02 Aug 2022

Antoine and Marta are preparing workshops for the workflows of the examples of D4.4 to include in the training platform.

The user meeting will take place in November. It will be an online event like the VISA workshop.

For the VISA workshop there are already 24 registrations.

19 Jul 2022

VISA Workshop – working in parallel with WP4 and WP6.

16th September: 11:00–16:00 CEST. 1 hour lunch break.
We have a draft agenda (not all speakers are confirmed). We have a text for an email announcement (save the date) and for the website.
Patrick has agreed to moderate the round-table.
Next Tuesday (latest) to send the save-the-date email.
UK raised an issue: wondering what about the VISA workshop that took place in Prague? Shall we collect and make the materials available? We could maybe sell this as a training session? Not sure if the presentations have been collected. Presentations are uploaded to the ELI. KR to check with Teodor to verify the presentations were collected. Training material/videos from SOLEIL that could be used by ExPaNDS. On track for this, more to report at the next PEB.

Antoine : Implemented the suggestions on the Learning platform from Prague. The code will be deployed this evening.
Ana wouldn’t be able to attend the meeting 2022-08-02 (next PEB).

05 Jul 2022

The organising committee of the VISA workshop had their first meeting, where they planned the first draft of the agenda. It will be an online meeting with a short introduction of both projects (PaNOSC and ExPaNDS). Afterwards WP4 of ExPaNDS will be introduced and two demos will be presented (DESY, ILL). The main audience are the beamline scientists. Another session will be open to everybody and the VISA deployment (DESY, ESRF, XFEL, SOLEIL) will be shown. ILL is going to talk about the development and future collaborations. At the end of the workshop there will be a round table about the sustainability of VISA. Majid reckons that the most important part of the workshop is the message to the directors, to roll out VISA. Paul suggests to do a hands on session on good technique. This is needed by everyone with a working VISA portal. VISA is a remote data analysis platform that has been adopted in the PaNOSC project. Jamie Hall was the main developer.

21 Jun 2022

Ana and Isabelle will merge the workshops in November. There will be an ExPaNDS meeting in Brussels, where use cases (e.g. heritage, tomography filters, pandemic) will be shown. WP5 organizes a workshop (user journey), where the main ExPaNDS results will be presented to the users.

The last workshop of WP5 is the VISA workshop discussed in Prague.

07 Jun 2022

Technical deployments are ongoing.

Ana and her team are organising their sessions for the f2f meeting.

5.3 and D5.5 are being prepared.

Ana encourages all WP leaders to join the discussion about the PID workshop.

24 May 2022

Ana encourages partners to upload relevant materials to the training platform (Materials - PaN Training Catalogue (ExPaNDS/PaNOSC) pan-training.eu or send them to the WP5 mailing list (wp5@expands.eu). Oliver and Antoine are working on technical developments, among them the full implementation of the ontology in the training platform.

Furthermore, Carlo and Antoine have created a workflow with training materials from WP3 (data catalogue services, including ontologies).

10 May 2022

Ana encourages partners to upload relevant materials to the training platform (Materials - PaN Training Catalogue (ExPaNDS/PaNOSC) ((pan-training.eu)) or send them to the WP5 mailing list (wp5@expands.eu).

Joint presentation of the training platform at the LEAPS/LENS IT group meeting (09/05) by Uwe. Topics to clarify:

Sustainability: is the platform sustainable? A suggestion was to have DOI’s for every training material. Is a YouTube link sustainable?

Licenses: Who has the license when uploading a teaching video? Does the platform has the license or the speaker?

26 Apr 2022

WP5 is looking for new material for the training platform.

12 Apr 2022

Antoine has resolved the issue #34 on Github. Next step should be to open the training platform to everybody (outside ExPaNDS and PaNOSC). Ana encourages partners/attendees to upload relevant materials to the training platform (Materials - PaN Training Catalogue (ExPaNDS/PaNOSC) (pan-training.eu)) or send them to the WP5 mailing list (wp5@expands.eu). On 8th of April the EOSC France workshop took place and Ana presented the ExPaNDS training platform. Around 100 people were attending, including a Research Ministry representative. The presentations should be uploaded in Zenodo and linked at our website and training platform. Ana and Uwe were also invited to present our training and learning platform at a LEAPS and LENS Working group 3 (9th May 2022). The interest in the training platform is growing. HZDR could take over the platform after the project, but there must be continuous input from further projects but independent from any further EU money. Uwe points out that for some topics there is more movement in LEAPS working groups than in ExPaNDS (e.g. NeXus). The next WP5 meeting takes place on Thursday at 11 am.

29 Mar 2022

WP5 is looking for new material for the training platform: Project partners, LEAPS, LENS, Hercules school…and encourages ExPANDS partners to upload materials on the platform or send the information to the WP5. There is a LEAPS and LENS workshop about NeXus, this information could be taken from the expands workshop about NeXus.

15 Mar 2022

Sponsorship of McXtrace training session at soleil (#37) will be discussed by Patrick with the PO. WP5 is working with WP3 for more training material.

01 Mar 2022

In the frame of issue #18, Antoine mentioned WP5 was getting closer to LENS for more neutron content (WIP).

On the duplication issue #34, WP5 considers the two workflow features to be complementary. Sophie asked Antoine for a quick explanation of the different features and their complementarity and that he could then close the issue.

Following the PaNET ontology workshop of WP3, Paul suggested using PaNET in the search feature of the training catalogue, not only as controlled vocabulary but also to enhance search results (returning results from “children” terms too). Antoine has taken this suggestion onboard and WP5 is working on implementing it.

Following PaNOSC’s review of their WP8 last week, Sophie reported a few points:

careful with content curation: there should be a (human) filter when automatically harvesting LEAPS events e.g. as all of them are not relevant for training. Antoine is aware of the issue and already has some ideas on how to solve it.
Once the domain name is final, Umbrella is working and the notebooks are completely operational (i.e. in 2-3 months), there will be an official launch of pan-training.eu commonly orchestrated by ExPaNDS and PaNOSC comms teams. Nicoletta will be in touch with our WP6.
By then, pan-training.eu shall be onboarded to EOSC, instead of pan-learning.org (with HZDR as a provider then?).

15 Feb 2022

The new design of the PaN training portal is now live. Several new materials were added and thanks to the automatic harvesting of LEAPS and laser-lab events, there are also many new upcoming events.

01 Feb 2022

WP5 received no other comment or question about the training plan (exchanges by email, several reminders were sent). WP5 is now rolling out the training plan and will contact WP leaders to schedule the next WS and identify their needs.

New material from Soleil was uploaded to the platform. ExPaNDS/PaNOSC agreed on a single domain name: pan-training.eu. It is redirecting to the HZDR page for now, the new landing page agreed with PaNOSC will soon be up.

WP5 encouraged participants to send their training materials to them using the wp5@expands.eu address.

In terms of development, Oliver and Antoine are replacing the use of Google maps with an open source alternative: open layers.

With the mid-term recommendation to keep connected to other training initiatives in mind, Sophie asked the status of the LEAPS WG on training. Ana mentioned it had been on stand-by for a while but that activities were starting again.

18 Jan 2022

07 Dec 2021

Abigail mentioned having a closed area per facility in the training platform was seen as an advantage for adoption, in the case of ISIS, when training requirements were discussed earlier in the project. The development of the platform focuses on openness to meet the EC call objectives. However, with Umbrella and its group management it could be in theory possible. It was noted that if the metadata was public, restricted access content could still be published in the platform, linking to a restricted access area.

23 Nov 2021

Ana reported progress on updating the training plan and asked for a particular attention to the next workshops.

During the last WP5 meeting, the definition of the process to transfer the training material to WP5 was discussed, as well as the level of ‘maturity’ it should have. This will depend on the WPs, a first tendency would be that WP2 and WP3 will provide finalised and ready-to-publish content, whereas WP4 will probably provide raw material that WP5 will then rework and format.

On the practical level, Ana mentioned the possibility to repurpose wp5@expands.eu to share raw content with WP5 on the one side, and encouraged people to directly add ready-to-use material themselves in the platform on the other.

09 Nov 2021

Content continues to be added to the training platform (promotional video, STARS workflow, WP3 material, etc.). Ana also suggested adding the recent workshops recordings and material: PID workshop, librarian symposium, PaN EOSC symposium.

On the progress of the platform’s development, Antoine reported that the user analytics are now GDPR-compliant and in place. The PaNET ontology is now integrated to help users fill PaN techniques in the relevant metadata fields. Giuseppe also implemented EGI check-in as a possible access provider. Next step will be to integrate Umbrella (EduTeams), which will be done by HZDR.

Ana will send around the updated training plan to all WPs for possible changes and updates. The 3rd WP5 workshop content and timeline will also be discussed during the next meeting.

26 Oct 2021

12 Oct 2021

Since the last PEB, the demonstrator for e-learning platforms was published. There were also further enhancements to the platform: adding a privacy policy, adding curators, white-listing known email address domains for automatic registration (@cells.es, @desy.de, @esrf.fr, etc.). Antoine and Oliver are also working on analytics (to monitor the number of visitors e.g.) but first need to solve GDPR-related issues.

Uwe and Ana reminded us that the development is now progressing well, so we need to focus on the content.

28 Sep 2021

The deliverable on the e-learning platform is under final review by Patrick and Kat. It will then be delivered to the EC.

Material on ontologies will soon be added to the catalogue, thanks to Sylvie.

Recent enhancements to the training catalogue:

automatic upload,
setup webservices on Moodle to be able to scrap the content from the e-learning platform courses metadata back to the catalogue,
adding workflows from SOLEIL and HZDR from the reference datasets (in progress) + making them more visual,
UmbrellaID implementation being tested by Giuseppe at EGI, feedback for next meeting at the end of Oct.,
normalisation and curation of metadata: compiling ideas now.

HZDR is looking for a speaker for a use case lightning talk at the symposium, the previous speaker foreseen is unfortunately not available that day.

Uwe also invited other WPs to add workflows to the platform (see example here), starting with the reference datasets but also including cross-WP work.

14 Sep 2021

In addition to item #2 of the agenda (see above), WP5 submitted their annual report on training activities (D5.2) and the deliverable about the training platform (D5.4) is currently being reviewed for a delivery by the end of Sept.

17 Aug 2021

Next week WP5 meets to organise the next period. The upcoming deliverables and milestone for August and September are in good shape and should all be ready on time.

20 Jul 2021

06 Jul 2021

Ana reported the annual report for the 2nd year of ExPaNDS was in progress, as well as the training platform evaluation deliverable.

The new starter (Antoine) is now confirmed to arrive on ExPaNDS on Sept, 1st for WP5.

As requested by the reviewers, Ana is working with the other WP5 members on a more precise plan for training.

The training material for WP3 needs the 1st data catalogue to be ready, it will then be useful as a roadmap for other facilities. The training material for the use of the ontologies needs to be clarified.

22 Jun 2021

Thibaud reported the recruitment for a new person for WP5 was now accepted and only pending the candidate’s signature. He would be starting in July or August.

Thibaud is working on the annual report due in August as a final task before handing over the WP to Ana.

The PaN training aggregator developed by Oliver is now live although not completely finalised (it still needs a manual intervention from Oliver to register because of firewall configuration). People have been adding material there, including from DESY and CERIC-ERIC, the ease of use being highly appreciated. Uwe confirmed the report on the platform evaluation is in progress (due in Sept.).

25 May 2021

Thibaud reported ongoing recruitment at SOLEIL for the development of the training content aggregator. A few good candidates applied and interviews are in progress.

Thibaud plans to start organising the next workshops for ExPaNDS for WP3 and WP4, defining topics, sites and timing.

Uwe reported progress from PaNOSC WP8 to integrate content in PaN-learning.org, e.g. for the HERCULES school. He noted again that photon sources lagged behind in terms of content. Anton confirmed people often reported a lack of introductory material at photon sources in general. The usual practice of beamline scientists seems to often be 1-to-1 support to their users on the tools and techniques, during their visit. Thibaud reminded all that this is why we have a content aggregator in development.

11 May 2021

MS16 - First (pilot) national training event organised and performed (SOLEIL) - 31 Aug 2021
Thibaud will start preparing the wording for this milestone which we consider achieved given the 2 online workshops that already took place within the frame of WP5.

D5.2 - Annual report on training activities, workshops held, materials published and investigations performed (SOLEIL) - 31 Aug 2021
No specific comment, this deliverable is straightforward.

A preliminary report for the e-learning platform evaluation (the deliverable due in Sept. 2021) is in preparation and the plan is still to have something ready for the review.

27 Apr 2021

Ana reported recent works in WP5 focused on the rehearsal preparation and reporting.

Abigail mentioned she had been contacted by ISIS@Mach who are asking for help in data stewardship training for a young researcher. FAIRsFAIR will be helping for the data stewardship part but Abigail will also see what specific PaN content we can bring them. A meeting is planned in the first half of May and Abigail will keep Ana informed of the developments.

13 Apr 2021

30 Mar 2021

PaNOSC’s “Train the trainers” workshop for the PaN learning platform is now finished. Andy asked if ExPaNDS participants had feedback to provide. Developing a course on the platform is a lot of work which can be overwhelming for our scientist (case of DESY participant). The feature to upload or link to a video or external resource will probably be more easily used at first.

16 Mar 2021

Uwe reported that Oliver had installed Tess e-learning platform on a VM at HZDR. The workflows is an interesting feature, for instance to have a DA pipeline including compression steps e.g.. (He reminded us that there was a working group in LEAPS working on data compression.) This will be showcased at the review meeting as part of the task to select appropriate learning platforms. Then the integration into the PaN learning platform with PaNOSC will need to happen.

The second part of the “Train the trainers” workshop is next week.

On ExPaNDS workshops preparation, there are continued discussions with DANS (EOSC-hub) for DMP training material and the workshop on our integration to EOSC by WP1 is progressing well. It is planned for 6-7th of April, see WP1 report.

02 Mar 2021

Thibaud mentioned the Jupyter Notebook implementation in the PaN learning platform was a milestone for PaNOSC scheduled in May 2021. They are however aiming to have it done by the end of the month for the second part of the train the trainers workshop.

During the FAIRsFAIR week, there will be a dedicated session on training. It is via invitation only but Thibaud should be able to get it via the training task force of the INFRA-EOSC-5 projects.

16 Feb 2021

02 Feb 2021

19 Jan 2021

Thibaud confirmed his open position at SOLEIL would work on implementing the Tess-like aggregator of training material, in the team of Emmanuel Fahri. The ontology developed in WP3 will be used for the platform, to add metadata to the linked training content.

Abigail and Thibaud met to discuss in more depth possible content and expectations for WP2 and STFC on training. The aggregator of content will be specifically interesting for FAIR-related content and Abigail mentioned the sub-site of the training platform for STFC could even be adopted for a wider use.
The more general survey on training material aimed at all partners is being finalised with Kat.

Thibaud also encouraged each facility to participate in the Train-the-trainers workshop organised by PaNOSC (9-11 of February).

15 Dec 2020

Thibaud will soon distribute the survey on training needs and material to all ExPaNDS facilities, with WP6’s help.

Thibaud also managed to get ExPaNDS a 10-minutes-presentation during Soleil’s user meeting (SU²). He suggested Patrick as a presenter, who agreed.

The first discussions with DANS regarding the workshop on DMPs, to be offered to ExPaNDS by EOSC-hub took place last Friday. The event itself will happen before the end of March 2021 and a first draft programme will be distributed by DANS to both WP2 and WP5 for feedback. We agreed this was an introductory training workshop on DMPs but that we will need an additional specific ExPaNDS workshop once the developments in the task on DMPs will be available (~end of 2021).

PaNOSC is planning to have its “train the trainers” workshop to learn how to add content in the e-learning platform in February or March (the invitation will be distributed soon). It will be limited to 30 participants, Thibaud encouraged interested parties to register.

Finally, Thibaud reported Soleil was in the process of hiring someone for WP5 to work on the portal, also because Nazaré will be leaving the project as soon as the end of February.

01 Dec 2020

17 Nov 2020

27 Oct 2020

13 Oct 2020

Nazaré and Thibaud presented the last developments on the training strategy for both projects (see appendix). There will be three components to the online training:

the e-learning platform that will enable the creation of new content and the use of, e.g. Jupyter Notebooks,
a training library, referencing all external training content of interest for the PaN community, following Elixir’s training platform model,
an event library, referencing all training events of interest to the PaN community.

In terms of architecture it would be less centralised hence more sustainable and it also will add visibility to existing material. This will enable to gather interesting and targeted information for our PaN community.

The next steps for this task will be to identify:

the training needs for each WP,
the existing material at our facilities that could be retrieved,
the planned material to be produced for ExPaNDS.

Nazaré and Thibaud are also working on the WP5/WP8 common presentation with PaNOSC at the annual meeting where this strategy and the responsibilities of each project will be highlighted.

29 Sep 2020

Uwe reported WP5 was still evaluating portals for the e-learning platform. Existing portals are not very flexible in terms of customisation or to add content from different sources. We need to link to an existing platform because we don’t have enough content as only ExPaNDS and PaNOSC, and it is also more sustainable.

There will also be training in EOSC-Future with DESY as task leader, so some complementarities to ExPaNDS and PaNOSC could be found.

15 Sep 2020

Thibaud had a very fruitful meeting with LEAPS last week who were really interested by the training platform that they are willing to take over after the projects end, making it sustainable. LEAPS facilities also have scientific material that they could provide already. LENS will be contacted by PaNOSC to be integrated in this.

Thibaud is also coordinating with Cecilia Blasetti for users outreach and is now in the WP5 and WP6 mailing lists of LEAPS.

Together with PaNOSC, Thibaud will meet with the Elixir platform on the 21st, and had an internal meeting this morning to prepare it.

Finally, monthly meetings will now be set between WP5 and WP2-3-4 to talk about training material and define the requirements for the platform. Thibaud asked whether WP leaders would rather have separate WP meetings or only common ones. WP2 was in favour of common meetings. WP3 and 4 are to confirm. Kat offered help with the templates for training material, Thibaud is to send his requirements.

01 Sep 2020

Thibaud finished his D5.1 annual report on time for it to be submitted to the EU portal yesterday.

Uwe and him discussed about which WP leader they wished to meet during the annual meeting’s ‘WP day’ which was almost all of them for 1 hour each. Given the format change to online, these meetings can be scheduled anytime before the annual meeting or on the 10th afternoon.

Uwe also reported that Oliver was testing platforms and that we would present his results to the WP.

18 Aug 2020

Thibaud reported that the D5.1 deliverable would be ready for project review by the beginning of next week.

Regarding the sustainability of the online learning platform, Thibaud suggested to ask LEAPS-IT if a takeover by LEAPS (and then LENS) was worth considering. Andy and others reminded that LEAPS had no staff or funding of their own so that it might not be possible. Uwe then suggested HZDR could take over for the platform after the project ends.

04 Aug 2020

21 Jul 2020

Nazaré mentioned that during the training task force of the 5B projects, we discovered the Elixir open source platform which was really interesting. It was shared with PaNOSC and it is now considered as an extension of the current PaNOSC e-learning platform. Its functionalities would be sufficient for ExPaNDS to put our content into and WP5 is considering talking to EGI to see if they could technically look into it. This would also mitigate the delays for the PaNOSC platform.

Nazaré and Thibaud said the next PaNOSC/ExPaNDS task force on training will need to agree on the way to proceed, and that it will probably be held in September. All agreed the ExPaNDS logo should be added to the PaNOSC platform as it should be seen as the PaN platform. Isabelle mentioned Diamond bought the e-photon.org domain and are planning to use it with lightsources as a mirror of e-neutron.org. Mirjam reminded the important role of PaNOSC and ExPaNDS in bringing together the Photon and Neutron communities.

07 Jul 2020

23 Jun 2020

Since online workshops need less organisation, Thibaud suggested to make more workshops, but shorter and on more specific subjects. The format was agreed: a 1 day F2F workshop is ~equivalent to 4 x 90 minutes online sessions, which can be split over several days. However, the effort for the other WPs to come up with the content is the same online or not so for now the planned workshops remain the same.

After the first FAIR workshop in Sept. ‘20, we will adapt if necessary.

Thibaud is also preparing a template for all WP leaders to fill with possible content we want to upload to the e-learning platform. The content should be both ‘IT-’ and ‘science-’ oriented.

An internal meeting on resources is planned at Soleil tomorrow to review the overall situation for ExPaNDS, including potential PM transfer propositions to other partners. Thibaud will keep Patrick and WP1 updated on the outcome.

09 Jun 2020

26 May 2020

For the training session on FAIR, Abigail explained that current discussions with FAIRsFAIR led to the following: FAIRsFAIR would provide general content and ExPaNDS would add specific PaN content like the data policy and the DMPs. The targeted audience is facility scientists and staff. The workshops will be recorded and made available if possible, the modalities are still being discussed though. Sophie suggested to look at what Ni4os had done regarding training with ‘BigBlueButton’.

28 Apr 2020

For the first workshop on FAIR, there was some discussions with FAIRsFAIR to see what content could be re-used. They also advised us on not trying to cover every FAIR topic in only one workshop.

A task force with Uwe and PaNOSC to plan the workshops is in place with regular meetings. Thibaut also explained we was collecting existing training content from the facilities that could be already uploaded to the platform. We asked for technical contacts for each facility. The members of the TCB seemed like the good target (see who’s who).

14 Apr 2020

Recruitment update: 0.5 FTE to be fully available from July 2020 on for HZDR (Oliver)

The first workshop on FAIR which was planned for M12 will be virtual. WP5 and WP2 would rather have it in M13-14 to have time to focus on the deliverables due M12 and get some feedback on them before the actual workshop. This however will still be discussed.

The second workshop on recommendations for national RIs on common practices’ focus and content still needs to be defined. It was agreed though, that there was no need to wait for the EOSC-INFRA 03 and 07 calls to start.

The third workshop on data analysis (planned M25) could be held at PSI.

Patrick also asked WP5 to study the possibility to have online workshops and not only F2F, even after Corona. It indeed seems like a good way to reach a wider number of users, virtual sessions being more flexible. In this case, good ideas to reallocate the travel budget to PMs would be welcome.

Thibaud also mentioned there would be a webinar by PaNOSC to explain how to create content on the e-learning platform. It will be planned around Q3 2020 and will be of interest to all potential ‘content uploaders’ (see MAX IV and Lunds University, and other university partners for participation).

31 Mar 2020

The e-learning ELI platform (pan-learning.org) is migrating well and should soon be available.

A meeting to organise the first workshop is scheduled for this Thursday (April, 2nd). Remote possibilities will be assessed.

Uwe and Brian confirmed that with the current progress on FAIR, the 1st workshop should be dedicated to WP2 content.

17 Mar 2020

Thibaud faces obvious difficulties trying to organise workshops when nobody is travelling. Two workshops are supposed to be organised by the end of August, with one on FAIR. WP5 is thinking of a plan B, Patrick reminded that no delay should be asked to the PO unless we really have no solution. A date for a telco with WP leaders is currently set up (see e-mail to WP leaders) to progress on this.

03 Mar 2020

Thibaud commented on the workshop on training in EOSC he attended last week: he will share the outcome of it (general and high-level guidelines for training, rules of participation). He wishes to see the scientific users more represented to these events (lots of open science experts, no scientists). Patrick reminded our privileged channel to reach the EOSC for now was the INFRAEOSC-5B task forces.

18 Feb 2020

The F2F meeting with ESS is postponed since PaNOSC’s platform expert is unavailable for now. WP5 is participating in the 5B project task force on training (first meeting tomorrow, 19.02.2020). The call for participation to the EOSC WG on training will also be examined.

04 Feb 2020

The e-learning platform shall be renamed and made available by PaNOSC by the end of February. A F2F meeting is being organised to clarify how we can populate the platform. A wider call for participation will be made (doodle still open) since it can potentially be of interest to other WPs as well.

21 Jan 2020

07 Jan 2020

Nazaré introduced Thibaud Cayla as new member of the project, he will be highly involved in ExPaNDS for WP5 and 6. WP5 had a joint meeting with their PaNOSC counterparts on December, 10th and will from now on have monthly meetings to precisely define the interface with the PaNOSC e-learning platform. They are planning for the next one to be a face to face meeting at the beginning of February.

03 Dec 2019

Upcoming meeting with Thomas from PaNOSC to organize collaboration on platform and with EGI on how they could participate, both hopefully before the end of December.

13 Nov 2019

Started working although core work phase starts in project month 12; set up mailing list; participated at PaNOSC Annual Meeting, will have a meeting with EGI and a WP5&WP6 joint meeting (feedback will provided after the meetings).