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[Steve Olshansky <>]

FYI, from the HIED-EMAILADMIN list.

Session Abstract
The CRU is providing a set of groupware tools, as a service, to  
distributed communities (also known os VOs) among the French Higher  
Education. CRU has gained a valuable experience while operating this  
service over the last 15 years. The service is now offered to 240.000  
users belonging to 840 VOs. The Sympa project was born to provide the  
first set of tools for these groups. Today the set of groupware tools  
has been extented above a simple mailing list service : shared  
document repository, wiki, surveying and in a near future XMPP chat.  
Making a coherent service out of separate tools requires some glue  
between the components. The authentication relies on Shibboleth to  
make the users use their own institution's login service.  
Authorization requires that these tools will query a central group  
repository ; Sympa acts as this group repository. Sympa software  
delegates group management to mailing list owners, with advanced  
features to import LDAP groups. VOs group repository offers two APIs  
for client applications : a SOAP interface and an LDAP interface. The  
LDAP interface was recently added to Sympa : many groupware software  
are already LDAP-aware and can be integrated for VOs benefit without  
any code change.


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Begin forwarded message:
> Date:    Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:53:30 +0200
> From:    Serge Aumont 
> <>
> Subject: Sympa talk at next Internet2 member meeting
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> We didn't have the opportunity to present Sympa new features to the  
> USA
> Hi Ed community for a long time now.
> Next Internet2 member meeting, is probably the right place for that.
> We'll do a presentation at next Internet2 member meeting entitled  
> "Using
> Sympa as a VO group manager"
> <http://events.internet2.edu/2009/fall-mm/agenda.cfm?go=session&id=10000743&event=980 
> >
>
>
> We will also organise a "side meeting" for Sympa users on Monday Oct  
> 5.
> We will present latest features including DKIM signature. This will  
> be a
> good opportunity to discuss your feature requests or to present  
> original
> usages you may have based on Sympa.
>
> Serge and David
>
> ps : October is far from now but registration early period is going to
> finish on August 17th ;-)