= GENI Current and Continuing Activities =

For discussion at GENI future planning sessions.

''This list is intended to capture major activities currently underway in GENI and/or that may need to continue in order to accomplish goals of the GENI project, NSF, and/or the research community. It is a work in progress and is not believed to be final or complete.''

 * System Engineering & Project Management
  * GENI-specific
  * Coordinating GENI with other CISE mid-scale cyberinfrastructure-related efforts
 * GENI Priorities and Strategic Planning
  * Financial planning and allocation
  * GENI subcontracting
 * Ownership (legal) of GENI assets
  * GENI-purchased racks, switches, WiMAX on campuses and at regionals
  * Spontaneous racks
  * GENI-purchased equipment at GPO
  * Intellectual property – software, documentation
  * Federation agreements – web of trust relationships within GENI
  * Federation agreements with integrated collaborating testbeds (e.g. Emulab, ORBIT, !PlanetLab)
  * Federation agreements with international collaborators
  * Participation as !InCommon service provider
 * Keeping GENI up and running
  * On-site hardware maintenance (racks, WiMAX base stations)
  * Core network capability (dynamic circuit provisioning, !OpenFlow control): US
  * Core network bandwidth
  * Core and regional network connectivity to GENI campuses
  * International R&E network connectivity
  * Hosting software services and tools (moderately long list, including clearinghouse, portal, Jacks, iRODS, !LabWiki, stiching computation service)
  * Operations team (monitoring, incident response, LLR)
  * User-facing documentation and web site
  * Developer-facing documentation
  * Hardware refresh / upgrade and obsolescence management
  * Software fixes and obsolescence management
 * Growing physical GENI
  * GENI primary deployment - new site identification & equipment acquisition
  * “Spontaneous rack” acquisition and onboarding process
 * Growing GENI community
  * Event planning and administration (GECs)
  * Experimenter outreach 
  * Experimenter support
  * Educator outreach
  * Educator support
  * Testbed community building (e.g. shared capabilities, API, international collaborations)
  * Developing training materials (experimenters, educators, and operators)
  * Conducting tutorials (experimenters, educators, and operators)
 * Enhancing GENI capabilities
  * Testbed software development (new capability and maintenance)
  * Tool software development (new capability and maintenance)
  * Federation with new collaborators (agreements and implementation)