The document presents the dissemination plan for the FIBRE-EU project, which aims to establish experimental facilities for future internet research between Brazil and Europe. The plan outlines the project's visual identity, dissemination materials, website, social media strategy, training activities, workshops, conference participation, and scientific publications. It identifies the main target audiences as research/academia, industry, policy makers, and other future internet projects. The plan establishes a general roadmap for knowledge dissemination activities over the project's 34-month duration.
The current deliverable under the title “D7.2 Initial Dissemination Material” presents all the dissemination and communication material produced by the EFFECTOR consortium by M6 of project’s lifecycle, i.e. October 2020 – March 2021. Particularly, it outlines in detail the elements of the EFFECTOR visual identity (including the official EFFECTOR templates), the project’s printable dissemination materials (poster, leaflet, brochure) as well as the digital ones (the 1st newsletter issue, 1st press release, project’s overall presentation and other supportive digital material). Moreover, it lists the foreseen actions related to the creation of further dissemination materials from M7 to M18 (project’s completion).
D7.2 is a public deliverable of this project, part of WP7 and additionally includes information about the project's scope and objectives as well as the description of WP7 in order to ensure that no prior knowledge related to the project, the DoA and the other WP7 deliverables is requested from the reader. Overall, it is based on, and is consistent with the DoA and the GA, but is not a substitute for reading these documents.
Project's Website: www.effector-project.eu
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 883374.
The current deliverable under the title “D7.2 Initial Dissemination Material” presents all the dissemination and communication material produced by the EFFECTOR consortium by M6 of project’s lifecycle, i.e. October 2020 – March 2021. Particularly, it outlines in detail the elements of the EFFECTOR visual identity (including the official EFFECTOR templates), the project’s printable dissemination materials (poster, leaflet, brochure) as well as the digital ones (the 1st newsletter issue, 1st press release, project’s overall presentation and other supportive digital material). Moreover, it lists the foreseen actions related to the creation of further dissemination materials from M7 to M18 (project’s completion).
D7.2 is a public deliverable of this project, part of WP7 and additionally includes information about the project's scope and objectives as well as the description of WP7 in order to ensure that no prior knowledge related to the project, the DoA and the other WP7 deliverables is requested from the reader. Overall, it is based on, and is consistent with the DoA and the GA, but is not a substitute for reading these documents.
Project's Website: www.effector-project.eu
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 883374.
Approaches to supporting Open Educational Resource projectsR. John Robertson
R. John Robertson1, Sheila MacNeill1, Phil Barker2, Lorna Campbell1 and Li Yuan3
1Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement, University of Strathclyde, 2Institute for Computer Based Learning, Heriot-Watt University, 3Institute for Cybernetic Education, University of Bolton
This paper examines CETIS experience of supporting a nationwide programme to release Open Educational Resources (the JISC Higher Education Academy UKOER Pilot Programme ). We consider how our model of support could inform others and be adapted to encourage sustainable technical support networks for Open Course Ware initiatives. As a national initiative involving universities throughout the UK, the UKOER programme involved a diverse range of OER providers, including individual educators, discipline-based consortia and institutions. Given this diversity it was recognised from the outset that no single technical solution would fit all projects, and therefore no specific tools, descriptive standards, exchange or dissemination mechanisms were mandated (apart from a requirement that the resources produced be represented in a national repository of learning materials ). In supporting this programme we have had to address diverse approaches and communities and it is likely that any similar pan-institutional initiative for supporting the release of OERs would face similar challenges.
Our approach to programme support has sought to move from the detail of specific support issues towards underlying support principles; thereby anticipating other issues and promoting good practice.
Our method has been: to provoke conversation through technical presentations and discussion opportunities at meetings or through blog posts; to investigate the technical choices made by individual projects through technical review conversations and record summary details of these conversations publicly online through an interface supporting searching and browsing; and to respond to issues arising from these calls or from project blogs.
In considering how this approach could be used more widely we will look at the challenges of working openly, the organisational overhead of this approach, its adaptability, and the role we think it has played in supporting the management and dissemination of OERs for this programme.
This document describes the Training materials, which is currently available on FOODIE Moodle platform.
On the base of Training plan, initial scenarios focused on methods used in sustainable agriculture were
prepared. Special lectures were established in order to stimulate demands of stakeholders for new tools
and methods of using on-line open data for agriculture production, context and sharing data in on line
repositories. There were prepared first set of scenarios, focused on good agriculture practices and also
first material focused on data fusion. The Training Material for FOODIE has following parts:
Introduction – a general four-step process been modified for each pilot. These four steps include:
building the initial scenarios, vision building workshops, testing of initial scenarios, and user requirements collection workshops.
Chapters for training - the first material for methods used in sustainable agriculture was already
prepared by project partners. There are two categories: Methods of Farm Management and Software Components and Tools of Farm Management.
Conclusion defining next steps - initial Training materials have been created. Training related to tools will be organized in later stage. Vision building workshops will be organized during Months 13 – 14.
Emerging Technoethics of Human Interaction with Communication, Bionic and Rob...Karlos Svoboda
AHS may be that f... system
In this deliverable, the protection and promotion of human rights is explored in connection with various case-studies in robotics, bionics, and AI agent technologies. This is done along various dimensions, prominently including human dignity, autonomy, responsibility, privacy,liberty, fairness, justice, and personal identity.
Ethical case-studies in robotics concern learning robots, unmanned combat air vehicles,robot companions, surgery robots, and a robotic street cleaning system. Case-studies illustrating current developments of the field with imminent potential applications comprise the robotic street cleaning system, surgery robots, and the unmanned air vehicles. Robots making extensive use of learning capabilities and robots acting as companions to human
beings represent somewhat more distant possibilities, enabling one to connect in meaningful ways an analysis of short-term ethical issues in robotics with a pro-active interest in longterm ethical issues.
The bionics case-studies considered here concern specific kinds of implants in the human body, investing the human peripheral or central nervous system, and other kinds of noninvasive brain-computer interfaces. These case-studies are closely related to the robotics case-studies, insofar as these bionic technologies enable one to connect to and often control robotic effectors and sensors. Ethical issues examined in connection with these technologies concern both a short-term perspective, mostly arising from their therapeutic uses, and a longterm perspective, mostly arising from the possibility of extending communication, control, cognitive, and perceptual capabilities of both disabled and non-disabled individuals.
This networking of humans with both robotic and computer-based information systems motivates the inclusion of a case-study about AI agent technologies in this report, concerning systems that have been with us for quite a while, that is, adaptive hypermedia systems for
educational applications. These technologies enable one to design and implement software agents that are similar to robotic agents, also from an ethical standpoint, insofar as they are capable of, e.g., autonomous action, reasoning, perception, and planning.
Ethical issues examined in this report will be amplified from the convergence of softbot and robotic technologies directly interacting with human beings and other biological systems by means of bionic interfaces. This long-term perspective shows that the case-studies examined here - which are significant in their own right from the isolated perspectives of robotics,bionics, and AI - can soon become parts of broader ethical problems that we will have to address and come with in the near future.
Approaches to supporting Open Educational Resource projectsR. John Robertson
R. John Robertson1, Sheila MacNeill1, Phil Barker2, Lorna Campbell1 and Li Yuan3
1Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement, University of Strathclyde, 2Institute for Computer Based Learning, Heriot-Watt University, 3Institute for Cybernetic Education, University of Bolton
This paper examines CETIS experience of supporting a nationwide programme to release Open Educational Resources (the JISC Higher Education Academy UKOER Pilot Programme ). We consider how our model of support could inform others and be adapted to encourage sustainable technical support networks for Open Course Ware initiatives. As a national initiative involving universities throughout the UK, the UKOER programme involved a diverse range of OER providers, including individual educators, discipline-based consortia and institutions. Given this diversity it was recognised from the outset that no single technical solution would fit all projects, and therefore no specific tools, descriptive standards, exchange or dissemination mechanisms were mandated (apart from a requirement that the resources produced be represented in a national repository of learning materials ). In supporting this programme we have had to address diverse approaches and communities and it is likely that any similar pan-institutional initiative for supporting the release of OERs would face similar challenges.
Our approach to programme support has sought to move from the detail of specific support issues towards underlying support principles; thereby anticipating other issues and promoting good practice.
Our method has been: to provoke conversation through technical presentations and discussion opportunities at meetings or through blog posts; to investigate the technical choices made by individual projects through technical review conversations and record summary details of these conversations publicly online through an interface supporting searching and browsing; and to respond to issues arising from these calls or from project blogs.
In considering how this approach could be used more widely we will look at the challenges of working openly, the organisational overhead of this approach, its adaptability, and the role we think it has played in supporting the management and dissemination of OERs for this programme.
This document describes the Training materials, which is currently available on FOODIE Moodle platform.
On the base of Training plan, initial scenarios focused on methods used in sustainable agriculture were
prepared. Special lectures were established in order to stimulate demands of stakeholders for new tools
and methods of using on-line open data for agriculture production, context and sharing data in on line
repositories. There were prepared first set of scenarios, focused on good agriculture practices and also
first material focused on data fusion. The Training Material for FOODIE has following parts:
Introduction – a general four-step process been modified for each pilot. These four steps include:
building the initial scenarios, vision building workshops, testing of initial scenarios, and user requirements collection workshops.
Chapters for training - the first material for methods used in sustainable agriculture was already
prepared by project partners. There are two categories: Methods of Farm Management and Software Components and Tools of Farm Management.
Conclusion defining next steps - initial Training materials have been created. Training related to tools will be organized in later stage. Vision building workshops will be organized during Months 13 – 14.
Emerging Technoethics of Human Interaction with Communication, Bionic and Rob...Karlos Svoboda
AHS may be that f... system
In this deliverable, the protection and promotion of human rights is explored in connection with various case-studies in robotics, bionics, and AI agent technologies. This is done along various dimensions, prominently including human dignity, autonomy, responsibility, privacy,liberty, fairness, justice, and personal identity.
Ethical case-studies in robotics concern learning robots, unmanned combat air vehicles,robot companions, surgery robots, and a robotic street cleaning system. Case-studies illustrating current developments of the field with imminent potential applications comprise the robotic street cleaning system, surgery robots, and the unmanned air vehicles. Robots making extensive use of learning capabilities and robots acting as companions to human
beings represent somewhat more distant possibilities, enabling one to connect in meaningful ways an analysis of short-term ethical issues in robotics with a pro-active interest in longterm ethical issues.
The bionics case-studies considered here concern specific kinds of implants in the human body, investing the human peripheral or central nervous system, and other kinds of noninvasive brain-computer interfaces. These case-studies are closely related to the robotics case-studies, insofar as these bionic technologies enable one to connect to and often control robotic effectors and sensors. Ethical issues examined in connection with these technologies concern both a short-term perspective, mostly arising from their therapeutic uses, and a longterm perspective, mostly arising from the possibility of extending communication, control, cognitive, and perceptual capabilities of both disabled and non-disabled individuals.
This networking of humans with both robotic and computer-based information systems motivates the inclusion of a case-study about AI agent technologies in this report, concerning systems that have been with us for quite a while, that is, adaptive hypermedia systems for
educational applications. These technologies enable one to design and implement software agents that are similar to robotic agents, also from an ethical standpoint, insofar as they are capable of, e.g., autonomous action, reasoning, perception, and planning.
Ethical issues examined in this report will be amplified from the convergence of softbot and robotic technologies directly interacting with human beings and other biological systems by means of bionic interfaces. This long-term perspective shows that the case-studies examined here - which are significant in their own right from the isolated perspectives of robotics,bionics, and AI - can soon become parts of broader ethical problems that we will have to address and come with in the near future.
Apresentação no WRNP 2017.
Resumo: A plataforma de experimentação Fibre funciona como um grande laboratório virtual para ensino de redes de computadores, testes de novas aplicações e validação de novos modelos de arquitetura de rede. Nos slides são apresentadas as últimas atualizações sobre a plataforma e seus planos futuros.
Monitoring in Federated Future Internet Testbeds: the FIBRE caseFIBRE Testbed
Monitoring in Federated Future Internet Testbeds - the FIBRE case - Authors: José Augusto Suruagy (UFPE) and Joberto S. B. Martins (UNIFACS) - 2nd perfSONAR WorkshopArlington – February 20, 2014.
Approaching Content Delivery in Software Defined NetworkingFIBRE Testbed
Approaching Content Delivery in Software Defined Networking, FIBRE Workshop, November 5th, 2013, Pedro Martinez-Julia, Antonio F. Skarmeta, Department of Communications and Information Engineering, University of Murcia, 30100, Murcia, Spain
From GMPLS to OpenFlow Control & Monitoring of Optical NetworksFIBRE Testbed
From GMPLS to OpenFlow Control & Monitoring of Optical Networks, Piero Castoldi.
Acknowledgements (people): A.Giorgetti, F. Cugini, F. Paolucci, B. Martini, N. Sambo, M. Gharbauoi, A. Sgambelluri, D. Adami.
Workshop “(G)MPLS and OpenFlow: Interworking, Integrating, or Replacing?”
Dublin, May 7 2013
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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FIBRE Deliverable 6.1 - Dissemination Plan
1. Grant Agreement No.: 288356
FIBRE-EU
Future Internet testbeds/experimentation between BRazil and Europe – EU
Instrument: Collaborative Project
Thematic Priority: [ICT-2011.10.1 EU-Brazil] Research and Development cooperation,
topic c) Future Internet – experimental facilities
D6.1 Dissemination Plan
From: WP6 – Dissemination and Collaboration
Reviewed by: WP1 – Project Management
Due date of the Deliverable: Month 06
Actual submission date: 30/11/2011
Start date of project: June 1st 2011 Duration: 34 months
version: v.1.0
Project co-funded by the European Commission in the 7th Framework Programme (2007-2013)
Dissemination Level
PU Public
PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services)
RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services)
CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services)
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Abstract
This document presents the major dissemination activities planned to be carried out by the
project, with emphasis on its first year. FIBRE’s visual identity is also presented. In the course
of the project, WP6 team will continuously review this plan and an updated version will be
presented in D6.3, expected at M17
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Acronyms............................................................................................................................... 4
2 Scope ..................................................................................................................................... 5
3 Reference Documents ........................................................................................................... 6
4 Targeted audiences ............................................................................................................... 7
5 Outreach................................................................................................................................ 8
5.1 Visual Identity................................................................................................................ 8
5.1.1 The concept behind the brand .............................................................................. 8
5.1.2 Templates .............................................................................................................. 8
5.2 Dissemination Materials ............................................................................................... 9
5.3 Website ....................................................................................................................... 10
5.4 Social Media ................................................................................................................ 11
6 Training Activities ................................................................................................................ 12
7 Workshops .......................................................................................................................... 13
8 Participation in Conferences and Exhibitions ..................................................................... 14
9 Scientific papers .................................................................................................................. 15
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1 Acronyms
CMS Content Management System
DoW Description of Work
EU European Union
FI Future Internet
GENI Global Environment for Network Innovations
MoU Memorandum of Understanding
Milestone 2.3: Successful availability of the infrastructure of
MS2.3
the FIBRE-BR facilities
WP Work Package
WP1 Project Management
WP2 Building and operating the Brazilian facility
WP3 Building and operating the European facility
WP4 Federation of facilities
WP5 Development of technology pilots and showcases
WP6 Dissemination and Collaboration
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2 Scope
The purpose of the Dissemination Plan is to establish the general roadmap of the activities that
will be carried out by WP6 in order to help ensuring the success of FIBRE in terms of
knowledge dissemination to the scientific, academic and industrial communities as well as
among policy and decision makers.
This document also works as a guideline to the project members, by presenting the FIBRE
logotype, templates, planned events and strategies of dissemination.
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3 Reference Documents
FIBRE’s Description of Work, available under request to WP1.
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4 Targeted audiences
The deployment of new FI facilities in Brazil and the extension of the European ones will offer a
valuable experimentation infrastructure, extremely useful for evaluating and benchmarking
innovative algorithms, techniques and approaches for tomorrow’s networks. Both academia
and industry are expected to benefit from the project results. Additionally, in the Brazilian
case, it seems probable that the FIBRE-BR testbed will serve as a nucleus for a GENI-like
experimental initiative, to be expanded and maintained as a national laboratory service. From
the European side, the existing testbeds will be enhanced and federated with the new
overseas facilities. Furthermore, as the European partners already have several collaborations
in place with other ongoing FI research activities, they are expected to work as “FIBRE’s
ambassadors” to other related projects.
As one can note, the development of the FIBRE activities will be of interest of many
stakeholders, such as R&D entities, SMEs, universities, students, researchers, governmental
authorities and policy makers. In summary, four (4) main target audiences were identified:
Research/Academia: postgraduate students - mainly from the field of computer
networks and telecommunications - will be motivated to conduct experiments that
may lead to related master’s and/or doctoral theses. Academic partners may offer
advanced networking courses in their curricula and familiarize their students with
state-of-the art material and with the experimentation culture rapidly growing among
network researchers.
Industry: as FIBRE is a deeply implementation-oriented project, its activities and
results are of extreme interest to the networking industry. Furthermore, the
deployment of technology pilots will create new opportunities for SMEs to develop
new software/hardware equipment. FIBRE partners will seek collaborations with
manufacturers, service providers and other related industrial actors. Industry
representatives will be invited to participate in some of the project’s events. The
User’s Committee will also foster the inclusion of further participants from industries.
Policy Makers: the FIBRE-BR testbed has the potential to become a reference for FI
experimental facilities in the region, driving future investments and project calls on FI
research in Brazil. It will be extremely important to make sure that the project
achievements will be properly disseminated among research policy makers.
Others FI projects/testbeds: as part of the Task 6.3 activities, the project will seek for
cross-promoting FIBRE’s outcomes to related EU-funded and Brazilian-funded projects.
Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with related FI initiatives might be set in order
to maximize the project’s results through the organization/development of joint
activities.
It is very important to establish the key target audiences. The dissemination strategy
presented in this work plan will be aimed at addressing the audiences described above.
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5 Outreach
5.1 Visual Identity
The creation of the FIBRE logo sets the basis for the visual identification of the project. It was
circulated and discussed among partners before the final release presented in Figure 1.
Figure 1: FIBRE logo
5.1.1 The concept behind the brand
The blue colour has been chosen because it is common to both the flags of Brazil and the EU.
Additionally, the circle shape refers to the Earth’s globe.
The white lines and their position represent the connection between Brazil and Europe. They
are also superposed on different layers, making a reference to overlay networks.
The project acronym displayed in lowercase pays tribute to the standard addresses and
domain names used on the Internet. On the other hand, the full project name is presented all
in capital letters to provide counterbalance to the image.
5.1.2 Templates
To properly communicate FIBRE activities in a professional way, the project logo is applied in
two (2) slide presentation templates (in MS PowerPoint format), as shown in Figure 2.
The templates are available for downloading from the internal Wiki of the project, provided by
WP1. All partners are requested to use them to present FIBRE-related activities.
“Deliverable templates” (in MS Word format), as the one used in this report, are also available
to project members.
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A “Poster template” will also be created.
Additional templates are likely to be needed and will be provided by WP6.
Figure 2: Presentation templates
5.2 Dissemination Materials
As committed in the DoW, at least two (2) sets of leaflets and posters will be designed. The
first one – in the early stages of the project – will present FIBRE’s objectives and concepts to a
broader audience. The second set – planned to be delivered during the third year – will
additionally disseminate public results, outcomes and findings from the deployment of the
technology pilots.
Additional posters and/or leaflets may be designed on demand at any time, tailored to the
event and target audience where they will be used.
At the end of the first year, near to the conclusion of the implementation phase of the FIBRE-
BR facilities (MS2.3), a new brochure will be released. This material will be aimed at attracting
outside researchers and students to use the facilities to run their experiments.
To ensure continuous coverage of project activities, press releases will be produced before and
after any FIBRE event. Material will be available at events and handed out to visitors. Their
respective files will also be available in electronic format on the project web site.
Depending on the targeted audience and the venue where the project will be disseminated,
some materials might be produced in Portuguese only.
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5.3 Website
A first version of the website is already operational and available at www.fibre-ict.eu (Figure
3). The additional domain name www.fibre-project.eu is also planned to be created and will
be used as the main reference to the project.
Figure 3: Screenshot of the first version of the FIBRE website
Hosted by UTH, the website was developed with Joomla CMS. At the date of delivery of this
report, only some basic information about the project was available on the website. Content is
expected to increase gradually through the creation of new pages/sections as project activities
evolve.
The language used in the website will be only English, however a Brazilian version with domain
name www.fibre.org.br will also be created.
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5.4 Social Media
Social networks are nowadays one of the most significant tools of communication, building a
community around something, such as an idea, organization, brand, event etc. FIBRE will
explore the social media to link people interested in FI experimentation.
Initially, a Twitter1 account will be created to communicate both the project activities and
achievements. Selected presentations about FIBRE itself or related to the project results will be
shared in SlideShare2 and integrated to the FIBRE website.
WP6 will also evaluate the feasibility of maintaining a page about FIBRE on Facebook3 and/or
LinkedIn4, possibly to be created in the second year.
1
www.twitter.com
2
www.slideshare.net
3
www.facebook.com
4
www.linkedin.com
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6 Training Activities
At least two (2) training activities were described in the DoW:
“FIBRE summer school” or “FIBRE Camp”. These are tentative names of a training
activity planned to take place in Brazil in the early stages of the project. As Brazilian
facilities will be deployed from scratch and the bulk of manpower rely on postgraduate
students, this training event aims at bring up to speed project participants not
familiarised with the underlining technologies used in the project.
Tutorial for site administrators. To ensure an effective operation of the FIBRE-BR
testbed over the nine Brazilian sites, a special training event tailored to site
administrators will be organised near to the conclusion of the implementation phase
of the Brazilian facility.
Nevertheless, all FIBRE partners will be on the lookout for opportunities to organize short
courses and tutorials inside their own institutions or within external events. For instance, on
May 2011 the Brazilian partner UNIFACS organized a short course on OpenFlow for their
students. It is likely that a tutorial on CMFs (Control and Monitoring Frameworks), proposed by
FIBRE partners, will be hosted in the next Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and
Distributed Systems (SBRC).
The dissemination and training plans will be revised and updated, if necessary, in Deliverable
D6.3.
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7 Workshops
Three (3) workshops are planned during the project lifetime:
First annual FIBRE workshop: expected to be held near to the end of the first year
(M15-M18).
Second annual FIBRE workshop: expected to be organized near the end of the second
year (M24-M28).
Final Workshop: at the end of the project.
These events will serve the purpose of demonstrating project activities and results to the
targeted audiences.
In order to optimise organization effort and maximise the cost-effectiveness of the events,
additional FIBRE activities will be co-hosted together with the workshops, such as the General
Assembly and technical meetings. WP6 will also look for opportunities to organise workshops
jointly with (or close to) key events, such as network-related conferences or Future Internet
workshops.
The exact dates and venue for the First Workshop will be announced about 3 months prior to
the event. If the First Workshop takes place in Brazil, the second one will take place in Europe
(and vice-versa).
For all FIBRE events an informative web page will be created using the CDS Indico tool5, which
will be linked to the FIBRE website.
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http://cdsware.cern.ch/indico/
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8 Participation in Conferences and Exhibitions
WP6 will keep track of all external events where FIBRE is presented by its members. A
complete list of events will be presented in the FIBRE website.
The table below highlights some forthcoming events where FIBRE members are likely to
disseminate project activities. This is not an exhaustive list, as we are still awaiting for the
announcement of another key events, such as the ICT 2012 organized by the European
Commission and the workshops from projects like OFELIA6, CHANGE7 and OpenLab8.
Table 1: Calendar of related events
Start date Event City Country
29-Nov-11 Global Future Internet Week (GFIW) Seoul S. Korea
13-Mar-12 13th GENI Engineering Conference (GEC) Los Angeles USA
April-12 2nd Open Network Summit San Francisco USA
17-Apr-12 16th International Conference on Optical Colchester UK
Network Design and Modeling (ONDM)
30-Apr-12 Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks Ouro Preto Brazil
and Distributed Systems (SBRC)
May-12 3rd Workshop on Future Internet Ouro Preto Brazil
Experimentation Research (WPEIF)
10-May-12 Future Internet Assembly Aalborg Denmark
21-May-12 TERENA Networking Conference Reykjavík Iceland
11-Jun-12 TridentCom 2012: 8th International ICST Thessaloniki Greece
Conference on Testbeds and Research
Infrastructures for the Development of
Networks and Communities
13-Aug-12 ACM SIGCOMM 2012 Helsinki Finland
08-Oct-12 Futurecom 2012 Rio de Janeiro Brazil
11-Oct-12 12th Annual GLIF Workshop Chicago USA
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http://www.fp7-ofelia.eu
7
http://www.change-project.eu
8
http://www.ict-openlab.eu
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9 Scientific papers
A large number of publications are expected to occur in highly reputed international
conferences, workshops and journals based on the concept, vision, design and implementation
results of the project. These publications will disseminate the project’s achievements and use
cases, as well as to provide indications on how to join or use the experimental facility.
Authors will be advised to use a standard acknowledgment text - as the one presented below -
in all publications generated by using the FIBRE facilities/resources. The list of scientific
publications will be made available through the FIBRE website.
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"This work makes use of results produced by the FIBRE project, co-funded by
the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and
by the European Commission within its Seventh Framework Programme.”
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