May
18
MarketingNREN Services - SURFNet and ARNES
May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
TNC 2008
SURFNET - Netherlands
Currently product managers are responsible for marketing their services including marketing mix, budgets, encouraging take up etc. Have more recently coordinated comms and marketing work to help consolidate calendars of activity and scheduling.
They are trying to address questions of when in the life cycle comms should be included and what sort […]
May
18
Marketing NREN Services - JANET UK
May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
TNC 2008
JANET – Russell Nelson
There are three stages of how marketing takes place in an NREN – one person does it, a team does it, everyone does it. There are also two stages on the sales path - either simply providing the information – shouting at the customer, and secondly trying to persuade people […]
May
18
Making the Case for NREN’s
May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
TNC 2008
John Dyer of Terena prepared a discussion document to help answer the question -”What Have NREN’s Done for Us” - or something similar…
Document was started to try and pre-empt any questions about why NREN’s should not exist. In essence the current document covers the following areas:
Historically in 70’s not much was going in, 80’s […]
May
18
Joint TF-FR and TF-MSP Meeting
May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
TNC 2008 - Bruges
At risk of sounding like a grumpy old git I am far from convinced that the idea of a joint TF (tasks force) meeting is likely to yield much of substance or consequence. The PR group has taken a long time to get going itself and so the prospect of lining […]
Feb
26
Mmm ?… Zagreb
February 26, 2008 | 1 Comment
Well a set of meetings in a ski lodge high in the mountain above Zagreb in high ski season sounded like it would be temptation too far (for some but not for me - a non-skier type) but as it was nothing but green grass and swooshing through leaves many were disappointed. The only snow […]
Feb
22
Renater to Host Events in Paris
February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
TF-PR Meeting – 21 February 2008
France will be hosting the European Research and Innovation Exhibition between 5 and 7 June 2008 at Porte de Versailles in Paris www.European-research-exhibition.com and the ‘European City of Science’ again in Paris in the Grand Palais between 14-16 November 2008. The European City of Science is being held to […]
Feb
21
TF-PR Image Repository
February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment
TF-PR Meeting - 21 February 2008
Terena have developed, following a previous TF-PR meeting suggestion, an archive for photos and this platform could be used to build an album for TF-PR images. The platform can only accommodate photographs but not for logos or graphical materials. There was a wider discussion about why existing platforms shouldn’t […]
Feb
21
Pear News Agency
February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment
TF-PR Meeting - 21 February 2008
Before the main part of this sessions it was announced that the next TF-PR meeting in Bruges will be a joint one with the Life Cycle and Portfolio Management Task Force (LCPM) on 18 May at 13.30. There has been some discussions recently about the potential benefits of the […]
Feb
20
GN3 (Geant 3) Planning
February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Geant2 PR Group - 20 February 2008
Geant2 officially ends in August 2008 but will practically continue into 2009. GN3 starts around March-May 2009. There will be a requirement to make the PR work around GN3 more significant than with Geant and the NREN’s will be needed to collaborate more fully
Likely funding is around 90million […]
Feb
20
Geant2 Segmentation Project
February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Geant2 PR Group - 20 September 2008
Since the last update on segmentation the Steering Group has been formed to give high level direction and has representatives form 9 NREN’s (not UK). The first meeting was in Paris in September and it verified the objectives of the segmentation work with an overall aim to build a […]
