Hi,

I am working with the Phase 2 project FINESCE. I understand that users from FINESCE should be classified as "community", according to a previous correspondance with this group in February.

Should each FINESCE user have to apply now with the link below and accept the new Terms and Conditions? Will such users be recognised and given "community" status?

The text on http://terms.lab.fiware.org/accept seems not to address existing FI-Lab users with an actual use of FIWARE resources: "* Community users will be selected through an application process. The application process, which may result with a negative answer, will be handled with the eventual support of FIWARE Accelerator projects (see [1], [2]) that will identify users that are part of their acceleration programme. Users beyond the FIWARE Accelerator programme are also admitted. Users willing to become Community users will need to describe the application they are developing and the planned usage of FIWARE resources. Community users will be assigned a default FIWARE Lab node and will have access to it for a 9 month period unless the application process is renewed. This node is selected according to their preference and/or ascription to a given FIWARE accelerator project, each of which is linked to a default node. By issuing a request for additional resources, Community users may be able to access additional nodes if well motivated." I
Best Regards, Padraic

Padraic McKeever

FINESCE Project Technical Management
Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems
E.ON Energy Research Center
RWTH Aachen University
Tel: +49 241 80 49736

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Subject: [FIWARE Lab] Acceptance of new terms and conditions, final reminder.

Dear FIWARE Lab user,

This email is the last reminder for you to accept the new FIWARE Lab term and conditions. Should you not accept the new defined policies by April 15th 2015 19:00 CET, your account will be removed and your resources released. FIWARE Lab providers will not be responsible for creating a copy of the data you stored on FIWARE Lab.

To accept the new term and conditions follow this link: http://terms.lab.fiware.org/accept. You will be asked to let the "Term and conditions" application to access your account data and to accept the new conditions.

For your convenience, the main policies are summarized as follow:

1. Users will be categorized in "Trial" and "Community" users. Trial users will include the users accessing the Lab for testing the FIWARE technologies during a limited period of time. Community users will include users who have formally requested a longer term environment for working on the development of applications based on FIWARE technologies.

2. Trial users will be provided with a limited set of resources and for a limited period of time (14 days) within a single node part of FIWARE Lab. Trial users who wish to have a longer term environment will need to apply (and obtain) and Community account (see point 3). After the expiration of their trial period, the account assigned to a Trial user is disabled and the associated resources released - any backup is up to the user. FIWARE Lab providers will not be responsible for the loss of any data. Reminders are sent one week before the expiration and the day before. However, the amount of resources assigned to Trial Users may vary depending on availability of new nodes and change of internal policies. Here it is a summary of limitations applicable to Trial users:

1. Trial users cannot create volumes

2. Trial users cannot create private networks

3. Trial users can create up to 2 VM - flavour m1.small (see [3])

4. Trial users cannot create new organizations beyond the organization linked to their account

3. Community users will be selected through an application process. The application process, which may result with a negative answer, will be handled with the eventual support of FIWARE Accelerator projects (see [1], [2]) who will identify users that are part of their acceleration programme. Users beyond the FIWARE Accelerator programme are also admitted. Users willing to become Community users will need to describe the application they are developing and the planned usage of FIWARE resources. Community users will be assigned a default FIWARE Lab node and will have access to it for a 9 month period unless the application process is renewed. This node is selected according to their preference and/or ascription to a given FIWARE accelerator project, each of which is linked to a default node. By issuing a request for additional resources, Community users may be able to access additional nodes if well motivated.

4. If the total quota assigned to Trial users gets exhausted, requests to create a Trial user account that require management of cloud resources will be queued and notified once resources are available on a "first arrived, first served" basis.

5. Users requesting a Public IP may need to provide a verifiable identity information that will be handled by FIWARE infrastructure providers to ensure the possibility to track liable actions within the FIWARE Lab.

6. Users will not be able to create new "Organizations" anymore beyond the organization linked to their account. FIWARE Lab allows to share access to the cloud environment set up by a given user by adding users to the organization linked to that user. As a consequence, existing organizations will be blocked from accessing cloud resources.

[1] http://www.fiware.org/accelerators/

[2] http://www.fiware.org/fiware-accelerator-programme/

[3] http://docs.openstack.org/openstack-ops/content/flavors.html

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