In the last two years P-GRADE portal became popular and many Grids and VOs selected it as their science gateway for their user communities (see our User communites page). Due to the increased interest and number of user communities, the developers would like to provide stronger support and faster response for the requirements of the user communities. In order to achieve this goal we organize the 1st P-GRADE Portal User COmmunity WOrkshop. The major goal is to share experience of using P-GRADE Portal among the various user communities and portal developers. The program is discussion-oriented. Every presentation will be followed by a 10-15 minutes discussion time in order to give opportunity for the users to express their P-GRADE experience and the developers to better understand the problems.

The presentations and discussions will be organized in the following sessions:

1. P-GRADE portal installation, administration and maintenance This session is for system admins who run and manage P-GRADE portal installations. Here we would like to discuss problems they encountered and possible improvements they recommend.
2. Applications developed by P-GRADE portal This session is for application developers who develop applications in the portal. Here we would like to discuss what they like and what they do not like or miss in the portal.
3. End-user experience with P-GRADE portal Representatives of end-user communities are welcome to share their experience wit the portal.
4. Further development of P-GRADE portal Portal developers will present future plans on the further development of the portal. User communities are welcome to give presentation on their additional needs to improve the portal.

A half-day WS-PGRADE portal tutorial will be also part of the program. WS-PGRADE is the second generation P-GRADE portal that will be presented and demonstrated during the tutorial. Two application-specific portals developed on top of the generic purpose WS-PGRADE portal will also be presented: ProSim portal for protein folding simulation and CancerGrid portal for drug design.

The whole event is free of charge. We would like to share experience with the P-GRADE portal user community in order to improve the portal for their sake and not to make profit from this event.