June 8-11, 2021

UGM 2021

Virtual

Jason Coposky

@jason_coposky

Executive Director, iRODS Consortium

Consortium Update

Consortium Update

The iRODS Consortium

Our Mission

• Continuous Improvement
• Grow the Community
• Standardization
• Show value to our Membership

The iRODS Consortium

Our History

• Founded in 2013 by RENCI, DICE and DDN
• Accepted the code base in 2014
• Forty one releases of iRODS to date

Our Membership

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2020-2021 Activity

• 21 Membership Renewals
• 3 New Members
• 6 New Service Contracts
• Many Proofs of Concept
• 4 Conferences and Events

2020-2021 New Membership

• SoftIron
• University of Minnesota
• Anonymous

2020-2021 Working Groups

Organized community efforts to standardize protocols, technologies and methodologies

• Authentication
• Metadata Templates
• Initiated Imaging

Details to follow in the Technology Update

2020-2021 Efforts

• Development of Localized User Groups
  • Global community requires local sustainability
• Broaden focus with multiple partnerships
  • Globus
  • Pacific Teck
  • EIT
  • CSIR
  • ThinkParQ
• ​Multiple RENCI proposals

Our Business Model

Start with proof of concept

• Use Case Driven
• Hands on
• Service and Support Contracts

Consortium Membership

• Four Levels - $10k to $150k
• 10 to 300 hours of support
• Participation in Software roadmap
• Discounted hourly rate

Tier 3 Support

• Systems Integrators
• Compute Vendors
• Storage Vendors

What am I missing?

• Questions?
• Comments?
• Criticisms?
• Complaints?