EGEE User Training. There will be need for training at a variety of levels: • There is a need for introductory tutorials on EGEE specifics and on the necessary background, e.g. OGSI and GT3. • Existing and new users will then need a series of courses to raise their skill level in application development to whatever is required for their research. • In conjunction with the introductory courses, it is appropriate to help researchers through the stages of becoming users and their first use of EGEE services. This will require properly equipped training rooms and tutoring. We hope to take full advantage of existing local facilities to meet this need. Tutorials have greatest practical value if users are taught about the steps needed to submit jobs to the Grid. For this purpose, dedicated “dummy” Certification Authorities and restricted dissemination test beds (running the same middleware as the EGEE production system) must be available from the beginning of EGEE. Moreover, since participants at some tutorials will not be experts in Grid computing, high-level user interfaces such as dedicated web portals should be deployed for hands-on sessions. This will exploit experience gained from the INFN Grid and DataGrid with the GENIUS grid portal (xxxxx://xxxxxx.xx.xxxx.xx). The initial training material, including tutorials and practical classes will be developed and managed by NeSC (UEDIN) with input from other EGEE teams. During each year, courses will be presented at multiple sites and in multiple languages to make them easily accessible. This has been done very successfully by CERN during the DataGrid project. We will seek to capture at least one run of each training course on video and audio and make them available over the web so that they can be replayed and used by project members at any time.
