[epsi-coord] Update from OKF

Wed Mar 9 14:35:05 GMT 2011

Hi Jonathan,

thanks for your input! Much appreciated.

best,

Ton
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On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We've now established that from the OKF's end the core people working
> on ePSIplatform will be:
>
>  * Daniel Dietrich - WP2/WP3 - main OKF contact person
>  * Antti Poikola - WP2/WP3
>  * Jason Kitcat - WP1 / management / oversight from OKF's end
>
> Taking into account the re-allocation of the technical work and
> reallocation of times for advisory board meetings, we have €21,562.50
> per year for two years, which is approximately 28.75 days (around 0.5
> days per week) at the agreed rates [1]. Due to budget constraints, I
> will not be able to play a significant role in this project, but will
> be keeping tabs on what is happening and liaising closely with folks
> at our end. Antti, Daniel and Jason are currently figuring out what we
> are going to be best placed to contribute to - and suggest you try and
> catch up with them directly.
>
> Regarding weekly calls, as you can see from the figures above, if we
> were to participate in every call - this could (prima facie)
> immediately take up around a quarter of our weekly time, so as it
> stands we're not going to be able to make it to every call. At the
> meeting in Berlin we discussed re-allocating around 1.5d from other
> project partners to the OKF on the 'progress monitoring' line (line 21
> of 'fees' sheet of [1], where it says this is for "1 hour per week"
> calls) so we'd also have around 7 days and then could participate more
> regularly. Has anyone had any further thoughts on this?
>
> Either way - we'd be grateful if you could use the epsi-coord list for:
>
>  (i) internal communications for the project, so we can keep tabs on
> what is happening, even if we can't make every call
>  (ii) call reminders - so that we can try and make it if we can
>  (iii) any notes/summaries/action items from physical/virtual
> meetings - so we can try and stay in the loop as much as possible
>
> Regarding the meeting in Luxembourg, I'd like to explicitly request
> that you make it clear to the Commission that we would *really* like
> to come, but we have not been allocated any time for attending this
> meetings as part of the project [1]. Not to raise this as an issue,
> but just in way of explanation as to why OKF will probably not be able
> to make it every time. I'm now in touch regularly with Richard and
> others at the EC about other matters, but it would be really useful if
> you could make this clear to them, in your capacity as members of this
> project!
>
> Above all else I should emphasise that it is *great* that the ball is
> now rolling, and we're *really* excited to participate! :-)
>
> All the best,
>
> Jonathan
>
> [1] From:
> https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AjHzTRGnQYBXdDNjeTVHS1BlSlctZnNFRjJyNjhOd2c&hl=en_GB#gid=2
> - which is the latest version of the budget, as discussed and revised
> in Berlin
> [2] cf. 'fees' sheet of spreadsheet [1], which says "5 working
> meetings of team in Luxembourg (1 per report and kick-off meeting)"
> and shows '0' for OKF and '5' for everyone else
>
>
> --
> Jonathan Gray
>
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