The OSG Council held its quarterly phone meeting on June 25th. Details can be found in Indico. The meeting included a lot of useful information about current status and future planning. As the presentations demonstrate, discussion of outreach to new communities was a particular focus, and my report was collapsed into pointing out that the future of the OSG depends on the energy and engagement of our members, the current and future leadership through the Executive Team, and/but also our Council members. The best capture of this is the information from the Executive Directors’ Summary Slide.

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Summary & Conclusions

• Be mindful of agency priorities wherever this makes sense. – LHC continues to be highest priority
• Build on our strengths– delivering operational value to scientific communities beyond LHC: Nova, Mu2e, DES, IceCube, … but also GlueX, sPHENIX, … SBGrid, … – continue lowering the barriers to HTC
• Continued focus on transparent computing from desktop to lab to campus IT to national IT to commerical IT
• Focus on a small number of additional strategic initiatives we believe we can wrap up in Y4– networking, stashCache, 30 min OSG-CE, …
• Focus on a small number of new strategic collaborations we believe can be meaningfully expanded through Y4– ACI-REF, LIGO

From Frank Würthwein’s slide on May 18, 2005: “Final Thoughts on OSG Year 4 planning from the Executive Director to the Council”

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