•35+ monitoring sites in 15 countries
–Plan to add ICTP Trieste if funded
–Other projects used toolkit, e.g. XIWT
•SLAC with help from FNAL
•Digital Divide collaboration (MOU) with ICTP,
Trieste
–eJDS
–They are looking for a EU grant for eJDS and PingER
•Need funding for coming year:
–Working with DoE, NSF, Pew Charitable Foundation …
–Tasks:
•(0.5 FTE) ongoing maintain data collection, explain
needs, reopen connections,
open firewall blocks, find replacement hosts, make limited special analyses, prepare & make
presentations, respond to questions
•(+ 0.5 FTE) extend the code for new environment (more
countries, more data collections),
fix known non-critical bugs, improve visualization,
automate reports generated by hand
today, find new country site
contacts, add route histories and visualization, automate alarms, update web site for better navigation, add more
DD monitoring sites/countries,
improve code portability
•Also looking for small grants for helpers in developing
countries
•ICFA: show importance to policy makers, funding
agencies, identify sympathetic
contacts at agencies, get support