COmanage Developers List

[Emily Eisbruch <>]

**COmanage Call, 22-Aug-2008**

Attending

Scotty Logan, Stanford (stand-in chair)

Digant Kasundra, Stanford

Michael Gettes, MIT 

Ken Klingenstein, Internet2

Mike LaHaye, Internet2

Jim Leous, PSU    

Dave Donnelly, Stanford 

Renee Frost, Internet2

Greg Wood, Internet2

Liene Karels, U. Michigan

Steve Olshansky, Internet2

Emily Eisbruch (scribe)

*New Action Items*

[AI] {Digant} will draft and place on the wiki a document outlining the proposed script for the COmanage video #2 by Aug. 29.

[AI] {Digant} will create COmanage video #2 by Sept. 19.

[AI] {Scotty} will redo COmanage video #1 to correct a few audio issues.

http://www.stanford.edu/~swl/comanage/

[AI] {SteveO} will make the COmanage wiki publically accessible within the next 2 weeks.

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/COmanage/Home

[AI] {Scotty} will send Renee info for the abstract on the COmanage BOF at the Internet2 Fall Member Meeting.

*Carry Over Action Items*

[AI] {Ken} will work on engaging Ed Seidel with COmanage at the Internet2 Fall Member Meeting.

*Discussion*

Logo

Greg reviewed the process for creating the COmanage logo. There will be two rounds of looking at logo ideas, and today’s call is the first of the two rounds. A range of ideas will be presented today, the group will provide feedback, Liene will make refinements, and then present a second time.

Liene reviewed the four wordmark concepts she created. These may be used both as a stand alone flag for COmanage and also as an indicator for packages that integrate with COmanage.

There is a restricted page in the wiki, which will remain accessible only to the core COmanage group after the rest of the wiki space is open to the public. The logo presentation is here for reference, as will other internal documents if appropriate:

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/COmanage/tmp

Ken noted that this is an excellent start.

Of the four concepts, the group was most favorable to:

- concept 2 (the smile), and

- concept 4 (the parentheses – metaphor for container – around the “CO”).

Suggestions and ideas that emerged from the discussion included:

 1) incorporate a platform into the logo and

 2) use concept 4 but with a subscript not superscript.

Liene will work more on the logos and report back to the group on Friday, Sept 5.

Confluence

Scotty reported that the process of bundling the Confluence Enterprise Wiki with COmanage is going well. The VM will be preconfigured with an evaluation license for Confluence. We should hear back from Confluence next week regarding whether they are OK with our plans to include it in the distribution VM image.

The plan is to work with other wiki developers, such as MediaWiki, on how to “domesticate” their product to work with COmanage. It was noted that potential COmanage implementers very likely will have existing user-facing collaborative applications (e.g. wikis) and will be reluctant to switch to those we include. Thus it will be important to provide information about how to connect those existing applications into the COmanage infrastructure.

Shibboleth 2.0 SP Update

The Stanford Debian developer is working on packaging the Shib 2 SP and including it in Debian's standard packages for ease of installation.

COmanage Videos

[AI] {Scotty} will redo COmanage video #1 to correct a few issues.

http://www.stanford.edu/~swl/comanage/

A second video is needed to focus on the experience of the “Collabmin” (the person responsible for managing the COmanage site).

[AI] {Digant} will draft and place on the wiki a document outlining the proposed script for the COmanage video #2 by Aug. 29.

[AI] {Digant} will create COmanage video #2 by Sept. 19.

Beta Sites

Ken noted that there are three or four sites wanting to use the upcoming COmanage beta version: CIC, Penn State, Berkeley, and OOI.

COmanage Inquiries

MichaelG suggested that SteveO be the point person who does triage for incoming inquiries on COmanage installation and usage.  SteveO agreed to this role.

COmanage Wiki

[AI] {SteveO} will make the COmanage wiki publically accessible within the next 2 weeks.

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/COmanage/Home

Next call: Friday, 5-Sep-08 at 1:30 pm EDT.