Having arrived late (yesterday afternoon) at the ODF and EGEE User Forum I still haven't been to many presentation, instead I have a had very productive time meeting people outside the sessions.

These have included discussions about the possible future work and funding of the Real Time Monitor (RTM) that we have written at Imperial College London. This is one of the most widely used dissemination tools and has, in various forms, been used to explain the operation of the Grid to thousands of people at different conferences around the world, including such dignitaries as the King of Spain and the President of India. The RTM can be downloaded from http://gridportal.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/rtm/. However, despite being so widely used this has fallen between the funding initiative of the UK funding council (the GridPP reviewers thought that it should be funded through PPARC dissemination and PPARC dissemination reviewers thought that it should be funded as part of GridPP) Bastards... So now we are looking at the possibility of funding through EGEE III.

Through the RTM we have collected job trajectories of some twenty millions jobs and another discsussion has been about these data can be incorporated into the Grid Obversatory. The Grid Observatory is an attempt to perform good computer science on the EGEE.

Other discussions have been around a variety of projects in which we are involved or would like to be involved. To me, the real purpose of these meetings is as much to gather people together to meet each other outside the sessions as it is to view the presentations.