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["Michael A. Grady" <>]

Note that HubZero originates at Purdue (NanoHub), but there is now a 
consortium of institutions involved with it:

 http://uits.iu.edu/page/aykw  (interesting that it's easier to find a page 
at IU on this than at Purdue)

I know there is a group here on our campus working on a NSF-funded  Ethics 
Resource Center:

 
http://www.library.illinois.edu/blog/bicnews/archives/2010/09/ethics_in_scien.html

which will be based on HubZero. I know that I (amongst others) want to look 
more closely at HubZero and explore models for supporting federated identity 
and access control.


On Dec 16, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Ken Klingenstein wrote:

> I've worked with the Hubzero folks a few months back (on the NSF Roadmap to 
> InCommon, due out shortly as a doc). They are good people. I did mention 
> COmanage to them, and they got the connection. One difference, I think, is 
> that they are married to the science gateway approach  - for them, all the 
> collaboration tools need to be hitched to their portal, and access/access 
> controls is done at the portal level more than at the app behind the 
> portal. Part of the reason is the accounting/sharing of group quotas etc 
> that is part of their TG-oriented approach. (How you log in determines 
> whose cycles you use in TG - sometimes you log in to the group to use a 
> group allocation, other times you log in individually to use your own 
> allocation.)
> 
> I can do an intro if needed. Bill Barnett is part of the Roadmap group 
> (along with Von, who is doing most of the writing) and the Indiana IT biz 
> more than the Hubzero crowd downstate. Bill is also the Indiana rep to 
> VIVO...
>       Ken
> On Dec 16, 2010, at 11:56 AM, RL 'Bob' Morgan wrote:
> 
>> 
>> A mention of HUBzero from Alan Walsh.  I hadn't heard of it before.  Seems 
>> relevant to our space.
>> 
>> - RL "Bob"


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