Boston-Cloud-Congress

= Boston Cloud Congress = This page is for tracking and organising the community engaged in providing an international open cloud.

About:

 * The Boston Cloud Congress is a gathering of clouds provided for and by research, academic and scientific institutions.
 * The event is planned to occur May 11th and 12th at the OpenStack Summit and then at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
 * The aim of the event is to produce a high level set of principles on the value for federating a distributed open cloud for researchers and scientists internationally.
 * The event objective for the 'Boston Cloud Congress' is to produce and ratify the "Boston Open Cloud Declaration".

To Participate:

 * Participants are asked to read the following resources prior to agreeing attendance at the event, to register you will be asked a series of questions to assure you are au fait with the material and content.

Required reading for attendance and participation at the Boston Cloud Congress:
TBC:
 * Horizon 2020 Open Science Cloud Investment Scoping
 * EU Science Cloud
 * (Australia) National Research Infrastructure Cloud
 * NSF Chameleon and Jetstream funding

Register
Please register your participation at the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-open-research-cloud-workshop-tickets-31893256589

Activities to date (reverse chronological)
Please edit and add any new activities with a contact name, location and date.
 * Venue being discussed (98ppl) with MIT for 'day and half event' for Thursday May 11th and part of Friday May 12th, 2017.
 * Scoping document published for circulation and discussion as draft agenda for a Boston Cloud Declaration.
 * Responses and interest for a 'Boston Cloud Congress' to occur in collaboration with the OpenStack Summit in Boston May 2017 from MIT, CERN, UTS, ANL, NeCTAR, Jisc and H2020
 * July 2016 The Boston Cloud Congress proposed as a top-down event to discuss the policy and processes needed to be agreed for technical use case scenarios to be progressed.
 * May 2016 update provided via the Scientific-WG on technical use cases for federated cloud identity, conversations on technical implications for an international open access cloud federation begun.
 * April 2016 Luncheon with stakeholders from the USA (NSF, Internet2), UK & EU (Jisc, Horizon2020) and Australia (NCRIS) in Austin, Texas at the USA OpenStack Summit. France's (Grid 500 invited unable to attend)
 * March 2016 Invitation to Directors of National Scientific Cloud providers, https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Announcement-Scientific-WG-Austin-Summit by Dr Khalil Yazdi
 * January 2016 Scientific Working Group established via Stig Telfer, David F. Flanders, Paul Calleja and