Add EGI 2023 blog post

content/news/2023-07-24-egi2023/index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+---
+title: 'Freiburg Galaxy team at the EGI 2023'
+date: "2023-07-24"
+tease: "From June 19th to 23rd, members from the Freiburg Galaxy team travelled to Poznań, Poland to participate and present the EuroScienceGateway (ESG) project at the EGI 2023"
+hide_tease: false
+subsites: [all-eu]
+main_subsite: eu
+---
+
+During 19th-23rd of June, members (Björn Grüning, Sebastian Schaaf, and Sanjay Kumar Srikakulam) of the European Galaxy team travelled to Poznań to join the EGI 2023 to present the [EuroScienceGateway project](https://galaxyproject.org/projects/esg/) along with collaborators (Sebastian Luna-Valero, Hakan Bayindir, Lukasz Dutka, Abdul Rahman Azab, and Maiken Pedersen) from different work packages of ESG. At EGI 2023, Galaxy EU for the first time held a booth; a dedicated session with multiple talks introducing and presenting Galaxy, and the ESG project.
+
+# Events
+
+## Day 2 - June 20
+
+On the second day, Sanjay, and Sebastian set up the ESG booth. In the evening Sanjay pitched the booth and advertised Galaxy and the ESG project during the **Exhibition opening and 1 minute pitches** session.
+
+![EGI 2023 booth picture](./EGI_2023_booth.jpg)
+
+## Day 4 - June 22
+
+The members of the ESG project held a dedicated one and half hour session **EuroScienceGateway: an open infrastructure for data-driven research** where they gave the following three talks followed by a Q&A.
+
+| Presenters | Title | Links |
+|---|---|---|
+| Sebastian, and Sanjay | Introduction to Galaxy | [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vQfHWkU_rg2KaNe58Fp341Il_Y0UxMnQvPA1REs90WvfLfksNvQMcKzn2TVBnd8DQ/pub?start=true&loop=true&delayms=3000) |
+| Björn | Let's talk about storage Or Empower EOSC Users to Bring Their Own Storage (BYOS) | [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vQVTNtkCPMPGE53RGvqmitR__xEI0Rq0gZjwnLkWERNJ7B7_vuaFqOMF7KXDIXA4w/pub?start=true&loop=true&delayms=3000) |
+| Abulrahman, Sebastián, and Hakan | Bring Your Own Compute (BYOC) | [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vQg8bu0q3RomaQwQmN50saGHNsiRfzO0rg15fB3Nej9aFLF8X4uuLRDHdSeeb8z4Q/pub?start=true&loop=true&delayms=3000) |
+
+During the session, the members introduced Galaxy espeically the Galaxy EU's design, setup and architecture. Highlighted the recent developments, such as object stores and distributed computing (PULSAR) a core component of ESG and the efforts to mature it to TLR-9, enabling the efficient utilization of resroucres across Europe.
+
+The initiative aims to create an open infrastructure for data-driven research, focusing on providing a user-friendly scientific workflow and data integration platform. This endeavor seeks to achieve robustness, scalability, and integration, enabling federated computational infrastructures and democratizing research data analysis.
+
+During the session various aspects of ESG and Galaxy were discussed including the integration of OneData platform, exploring DIRAC as a new metascheduler and ARC as a new job-runner.
+
+# Thank You !
+
+The European Galaxy team would like to **thank** the **Galaxy community**, **members of the ESG** for all their contributions that were presented and **EGI** for the fantastic organisation of this meeting.
+
+![EGI 2023 participant picture](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fznr0-OWYAEJ85a?format=jpg&name=large)