Maria's papers/notes

Last rev: February 28, 2022

Written for the WLCG handover - end of 2016

• Middleware Readiness Working Group
• GGUS Operations
• Tracking Tools' Evolution Task Force
• SCOD Rota archive
• WLCG Operations'Internal Planning
• Hand-over plan
• Auth/AuthZ WLCG Requirements. Written in HackMD on 2018-04-19.

Links Within Upon Everything

• Presentation for Cassandre Poirier-Simon in the Contemporary Art Museum in Geneva (BAC).
• Presentation on (e-)learning.
• CERN-made MOOCs Lightning Talk October 2015.
• The unscalable frequency of meetings Lightning Talk February 2015.
• CERN Academic Training expansion proposal.
• Contribution to CERN Academic Training.
• Contribution to Middleware Readiness
• "The WLCG Middleware Readiness WG" presentation for the LHCb experiment Computing Workshop on 2014/05/22.
• CERN Opinion piece for web@25. 25 years since TimBL's original proposal and Sir Tim Berners-Lee's BBC radio announcement.
• Education & Arts Proposal for CERN IT.
• CERN-W3C Collaboration Proposal 2017.
• CERN-W3C Collaboration Proposal 2014.
• The Music of Physics. Swiss radio interview. If you don't allow pop-up, open this page and scroll down (after Detroit).
• CHEP 2013 Contribution and Book of Abstracts (around page 70), CERN CDS record and supporting documents.
• WLCG Service Report (with contribution from the dashboard team for the 2013/03/19 WLCG MB.
• GGUS ALARMs notifications for the Tier0 for the 2013/03/19 WLCG MB.
• Tracking Tools Evolution Task Force presentation at the 2012/11/14 Grid Deployment Board.
• Panel member in Gilles Jobin's last CERN lecture
• Question on more ALARMs and more Site Notifications at the 2012/11/01 WLCG Ops Coord meeting.
• Tracking Tools Evolution Task Force documentation.
• Tracking Tools Evolution Task Force reports at every WLCG Ops Coord meeting.
• Presentation at the European Grid Initiative Community Forum 2012/03/28
• GGUS news' presentation at the October 2011 Grid Deployment Board.
• College Rousseau, Geneva, Internet-Web-Grid_2011/0404 (.ppt), (.pdf).
• A series of talks on Ticketing system interface between (Grid) GGUS and (CERN) Service now:
  • To CERN IT Service mgrs.
  • to WLCG T1SCM Status report I.
  • to WLCG T1SCM Status report II.
  • to WLCG T1SCM Status report III.
  • IT/CMS Presentation on GGUS-SNOW (includes GGUS ALARMs workflow) Agenda and Slides.
• Presenation on ALARM tickets and other workflows at the IT/CMS Coordination meeting 2011/09/07.
• Presentations at the Grid Deployment Board (GDB)
• Presentations as an author (CERN search engine).
• Presentations recorded in CERN indico agenda system.

• Amsterdam CHEP 2013 poster presentation on "Handling Worldwide LHC Computing Grid Critical Service Incidents".
• The WLCG Critical Services.
• CHEP 2009 paper of VOMS/VOMRS Utilisation patterns and convergence plan.
• CHEP 2009 paper on WLCG-specific special features in GGUS.
• The WLCG VO User Support.
• Procedures on GGUS TEAM, ALARM, OSG and Site issues.

  LCG

  • VOMRS_to_VOMS-Admin migration meetings' index.
  • Grid Deployment Board with VOM(R)S wrap-up talk. The talk.
  • The LHC Experiment Task Force for Grid Registration and its check-point meetings
  • Grid-related links by various authors.
  • VOMS activities and documentation.
  • Early days of the Grid - as of 2003 - Maria's notes.

  User Support issues

  • The IT Helpdesk Manager on Duty (MoD) guidelines.
  • Presentation on IT activities as a CERN guide.
  • Instant messaging using zephyr, a GDPM example
  • CNL article on the zephyr project based on original proposed CNL article on the zephyr project
  • The CERN HEPiX site
  • C5 Presentation from the last HEPiX I attended.
  • My last presentation at HEPiX including summary and detailed survey results from User Support practices in other HEP sites.
  • User questions flow. Presentation in the IT-LEP experiments' meeting
  • Installing greek fonts on NICE NT
  • Computing change announcements
  • WWW9 Trip Report
  • Structuring FAQs
  • Service Level Agreement between User Support and IT services.
  • Email User Support 2nd-level service definition
  • Web User Support 2nd-level service definition

  Web technology

  • Document names on the Web
  • Paper for South African Web conference
  • Slides for the above Web conference
  • How to make colourful pages on the Web
  • User Customization of Apache Web Servers
  • Inventory of authoring tools (with K.Tuominen)
  • Dreamweaver presentation in IT Forum
  • Tutorial on Searching (with D.Kogut)
  • Tutorial on Metadata (with D.Kogut)
  • Search engines' comparison
  • HyperNews set-up (with M.Collados)
  • Many-to-Many communication
  • HyperNews forum on web authoring
  • Presentation in IA group meeting
  • Calendaring products' research

  For more information, please contact maria.dimou@cern.ch