The meeting was organized on December 15, 2009, at the University of Bucharest, following the previous agreement reached between representatives of RoGrid and RoNGI initiatives, Prof.dr. Doina Banciu – General Director of the National Institute for R&D in Informatics (ICI) Bucharest and Dr. Nicolae Zamfir - General Director of the National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering Magurele, respectively, with support provided by the Ministry of Communication and Information Society (MCSI) and the National Agency for Scientific Research (ANCS).
The aim of the meeting was to reach a consensus on joint representation of the Romanian Grid community in the European Grid Initiative, the EGI Council and the EGI related InSPIRE project.
Besides chairs nominated above, the meeting was attended by Dr. Ionel Andrei – General Director, Directorate General R&D Programs, National Authority for Scientific Research, Dr. Catalin Nae – General Director of the National Institute for Aerospace Research Bucharest, Dr. Florin Buzatu - General Director of the Institute for Atomic Physics Magurele, Dr. Neculai Andrei – Scientific Director of ICI Bucharest, Prof. dr. Gheorghe Sebestyen – Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Dr. Gabriel Neagu – senior researcher ICI Bucharest, Dr. Mihnea Dulea – Head of IT and Communication Department - IFIN-HH, Dr. Sorin Zgura – senior researcher, Institute for Space Science Magurele, Cosmin Nistor – representative of the Romanian Space Agency Bucharest.
The participants agreed on the following conclusions:
- To set up a unique NGI, based on the current initiatives RoGrid and RoNGI, with the acronym RoGrid-NGI
- To nominate a team including Mihnea Dulea, Gabriel Neagu, Gheorghe Sebestyen and Sorin Zgura, in charge of elaborating a draft regulation for RoGrid-NGI
- To nominate ICI Bucharest as coordinator of RoGrid-NGI
- ICI Bucharest to nominate the RoGrid-NGI representative in the EGI Council
- LHC community to nominate its representative for EGI affairs having the same access rights to the EGI Council related information as the RoGrid-NGI representative
- To inform MCSI and ANCS about these conclusions, followed by a clarification message to be sent to the President of EGI and to the Director of the EGI InSPIRE project.