[Go-essp-tech] getting started document

Tue Feb 15 07:48:02 MST 2011

Hello,

I've made a few changes - I've been away and haven't followed all the discussions - so apologies if I'm suggesting things which have already been discussed.  These are the main changes I've made:

n  adding an introductory paragraph to try to make the document less frightening,

n  putting instructions for existing account holders before instructions on how to create an account

n  I've taken out references to "home gateway" and replaced them with "institution holding your account" - which looks clumsy here, but I think it works better in the document.

n  I've moved the information about getting a certificate into a section on its own. The document could also make a note of possibilities of accessing data through OpenDAP, which would use the same certificates as the wget scripts, so it makes sense to me to put the "certificate" section at a higher level.

n  I think the "registering for CMIP5" section could be shortened - this is actually a very simple bit of form filling and doesn't need to be spelled out in detail - but I have not made any changes yet.

A question to Phil and perhaps Stephen: if a user has logged in to a gateway to get a wget script, is there any reason the gateway can't give him a certificate as well? Probably not the best time to bring this up, but I don't see why users who have just logged on need to do so again through a java application which has issues with some browsers.

Regards,

Martin

From: go-essp-tech-bounces at ucar.edu [mailto:go-essp-tech-bounces at ucar.edu] On Behalf Of Karl Taylor
Sent: 15 February 2011 08:07
To: Pascoe, Stephen (STFC,RAL,SSTD)
Cc: go-essp-tech at ucar.edu
Subject: Re: [Go-essp-tech] getting started document

Hi Stephen,

Thanks to you and Phil for improving the getting started document. I've accepted all your changes and then made additional revisions, which I hope continue to improve it.  Now its your turn again.  Of course, it would be great if others might also take a look and comment.

IMPORTANT:  could someone remind me of the phone number and password for the Tuesday telecon?

thanks,
Karl

On 2/14/11 6:33 AM, stephen.pascoe at stfc.ac.uk<mailto:stephen.pascoe at stfc.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi Karl,

I've substantially edited the first few sections of the getting started document and incorporated some earlier edits from Phil.  I don't think we are there yet but I hope I've improved how we explain Gateways and OpenID in steps 1-3.  I will review the download part as soon as I can as: I want to minimise the complexity of explaining the MyProxy service but this will depend on how automatic we can make the wget script.

Thanks,
Stephen.

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From: go-essp-tech-bounces at ucar.edu<mailto:go-essp-tech-bounces at ucar.edu> [mailto:go-essp-tech-bounces at ucar.edu] On Behalf Of Karl Taylor
Sent: 01 February 2011 16:50
To: go-essp-tech at ucar.edu<mailto:go-essp-tech at ucar.edu>
Subject: [Go-essp-tech] getting started document

Dear all,

I've attached a (rather long) "getting started" document to help new users obtain CMIP5 model output.  The procedure works at least for the old token system.  Could someone read over it and edit it where needed so that it is correct for the new non-token system?  Any suggestions on simplifying it would also be helpful.

thanks,
Karl

On 1/31/11 5:45 AM, Williams, Dean N. wrote:
Dear Colleagues,

    We are scheduled to have our regularly scheduled GO-ESSP meeting to discuss the release of our ESG Federated system, which should go live this week (tomorrow)...  Please plan on attending the meeting.... :-)

   (925) 424-8105 access code 305757#

Thanks and best regards,
    Dean

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