These deliverable presents the work conducted within WP4 since January 2007 up to March 2008, excluding the impact analysis already presented last June in deliverable D4.3.

The orientation is twofold; in occasions it describes activities that have been undertaken for the first time and in others it strictly focuses on usage data of services and tools that were already reported in previous documents. We can say that this deliverable is a complement of the previous deliverable D4.3 and a precursor of at least one more deliverable with similar orientation, foreseen in March 2009.

Deliverable D4.4 is structured around three main sections, namely maintenance and consolidation of dissemination and collaboration tools (section 3 of this document), extended dissemination & promotion (section 4 of this document) and the enhanced collaboration environment (section 5 of this document).

In the section of maintenance and consolidation of dissemination and collaboration tools we elaborate on the final steps conducted to make the QoS Management Portal an effective and self-contained portal of network management. We also elaborate on the creation of a PhDs database in order to make aware PhD students within EMANICS of the work done by their colleagues. This database is based on a wiki that was integrated on purpose on our Joomla content management system. We continue that chapter presenting the most relevant usage data of our EMANICS site, which are structured around thirteen statistics, namely site usage, map overlay report, new visits, new vs returning visitors, used languages, time on site for visitors, visitors loyalty, used browsers and operating systems, network locations, search keywords, referring sites, traffic sources and page view volume. We also continue with the actions undertaken to mprove indexing of the SimpleWeb by the Google search engine. This section is concluded referring to the publication of two newsletter issues during 2007 with the intention to serve better the EMANICS interests, as the published letters coincided with the reporting of important events in the community.

In the section of extended dissemination and promotion we start reporting the creation of a new portal for the IFIP WG 6.6. The rationale behind this new portal was that the chair and vice-chair of this working group are both EMANICS participants and because the maintenance of the former website was cumbersome because it was created via some website creation program, the name of which was unknown to the previous website owner. Therefore the new chair decided to completely rewrite the HTML code, while still keeping the old “look and feel”. The section ends with a description of the aims of the EMANICS Secretariat, a complementary activity to the newsletter, in the sense that, as the newsletter, it describes the cooperation initiatives among partners and announces a number of related events such as conferences, meetings, workshops and it also alerts audience with respect to forthcoming events, but with the difference that the EMANICS Secretariat pretends to inform the community almost in real time.

The section devoted to the enhanced collaboration environment starts describing the rationale for the substitution of the former EMANICS collaboration environment (based on Libresource) by a new one based on two open source tools, namely Trac and SVN. It also provides specific data usage of such a new environment and finally it concludes with the technical aspects of the integration of the above mentioned wiki in the Joomla CMS.