Hi everyone -

I am copying the web conference announcement (sent to the list as a new message) to this thread as well for those who may be watching this discussion.

Thanks,

Ann

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Thank you to everyone who helped provide doodle poll input for the first Czars web conference!

We have set the date:

Date: Monday, July 9th
Time: 09:00 AM Central Time

Web Conference (this will be recorded and posted for playback):
We will be using a Blackboard Collaborate web conference. See the section below for more tips on how to use Blackboard Collaborate (Elluminate Live) if you have not used it before.
https://globalcampus.uiowa.edu/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1262330108904

Agenda:
* Logistics: Address how we want to tackle these calls. Go over generic agenda. Frequency of calls
* Presentation: Galaxy at Iowa: Discuss our issues with big data, how NGS tools take in/output data and finding the right storage server solution.
* Group Goals: what do we want to accomplish with this group beyond discussions/sharing?
* Open Mic & recruit new volunteers for the next call.

Blackboard Collaborate (Ellumiate Live!) Tips:

For our web conferences we will try out Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing software. You do not need any special client, just a web browser and java installed (the client will run as a java web start app). You don't need to use a headset, but if you have one it does improve your audio. I will try to open up the session 15 minutes early for people to join and try out the technology.

A couple of things to mention, when you launch your session - you can tune your connection speed:

Talking works like a walkie-talkie ... you have to select "Talk" (see capture below) to open up your audio line. There can only be 6 simultaneous talkers. Please only select the talk button when you need to actually talk to reduce background noise and to free up lines for others to participate.

Thanks!

Ann Black-Ziegelbein
University of Iowa

On 6/28/2012 8:57 AM, Sebastian Schaaf wrote:

Thanks Ann for your quick reply, sounds good.
I just submitted my info in reply to the online survey.

Regarding your issues: don't worry, I think we all suffer from the same things, basically :). No need to apologize. As I stated in the submitted web form we had similar problems with file systems and big data. Maybe a topic for our conversations.

Sebastian

Ann Black-Ziegelbein schrieb:

Hi All -

I have dropped the ball on this one. We at Iowa have gotten bogged down in storage issues with galaxy (our existing storage was crashing) and have been spending all my time evaluating different storage solutions under load: zfs, gluster, lustre, nfs for our galaxy and high performance compute cluster. This week our testing and evaluation is almost completed.

I have a proposed agenda for our first call I need to circulate as well I have lined up an online web conference solution for us to try which will allow our calls to be recorded and posted for playback. I am actually talking to Dave today and hopefully I will get something out for a call in early to mid July.

Sorry folks, I have been busy and it has been hard to get back to this.

Ann

On 6/28/2012 4:14 AM, Sebastian Schaaf wrote:

Also hello to everyone,

As I browsed through those tabs which are open for weeks I rediscovered the online survey "Interested in Deploying Your Own Local Galaxy?" connected to this thread here. The last response I could find in this context was the one below which was written by Ann.
To make it short: did anything happen in the meantime, has there been any telephone conference, is there still any interest out there? I filled out the survey and ask myself wether it makes still sense to submit the form. Regarding the fact I can participate in this year's Galaxy Developers Conference (GCC in Chicago) I would be quite happy if some contacts may arise from this thread or the conference or both in a mutual way (which would be somewhat perfect). The heavily discussed topic regarding time zones should not prevent us from going ahead.

Best regards and thanks in advance,

Sebastian Schaaf
(Munich, Germany)

Ann Black-Ziegelbein schrieb:

Hello everyone!

Here is a link to a brief survey about how you are using, or plan to use Galaxy locally. If you could take a moment to complete the survey, it will help steer the teleconferences as we get going (and also alleviate having to spend time on the call providing the same background info). The results of the survey will be made public off of a new wiki site that Galaxy's Dave Clements is arranging for the group - thanks Dave!

Web Survey: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGJZcmxEWDQ3aERPNmlBaDl1eHVsQ3c6MQ

Once the teleconference infrastructure details are in place and finalized, I will send out a web poll to see if we can find a time that works for the majority.

Thanks,

Ann Black-Ziegelbein

On 4/27/2012 2:14 PM, Ryan Golhar wrote:

This is a great idea.

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Ann Black-Ziegelbein <annblack@eng.uiowa.edu <mailto:annblack@eng.uiowa.edu>> wrote:

    Hi everyone -

    Here at the University of Iowa we are working on deploying Galaxy
    locally for campus wide access. I am interested in forming a
    community of other institutions trying to deploy Galaxy locally
    and mange/operate it on a broad level. Is anyone else?   If
    there is enough interest, possibly we could have a community
    conference call every other month to have an open discussion on
    how we are all deploying galaxy, customizations we are making,
    problems we are encountering, bugs, and any add-on operations
    management for galaxy being developed, etc.

    Would love to hear from others operating Galaxy or in process of
    standing up a local deployment.

    Thanks!

    Ann Black-Ziegelbein
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