The EGI is an abbreviation-heavy community.

There's the EGI - European Grid Infrastructure - which provides researchers with access to computing resources. There's also the EMI - the European Middleware Initiative (see my post from yesterday). It's completely different to the EGI, and is working to unify the different middlewares used in Europe (middleware is the software that ties together different computer resources.) Oh, and let’s not forget IGE (not EGI or EMI). It’s the Initiative for Globus in Europe, which coordinates European work on Globus (another middleware). And I’ve not even got started on the SLAs, MoUs and OLAs - terms which abound like rabbits in spring.

Maybe the next thing the EGI should work on is an online glossary?