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[Jim Leous <>]

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.)

That's exactly right, Ken.  We've been looking at it since it went Open 
Source this year with an eye toward domesticating it.  Mike Burns in my 
group has been working on it.  Until very recently, help on their 
developer forums has not really been forthcoming.  I did speak to Mark 
from Purdue about it on a CIC Research Group conference call earlier 
this semester.  According to Mike, he has been getting some help 
recently.  Who knows which approach may be right here?  Our approach is 
the small, sharp tools approach and HubZero's is more of a portal 
oriented, many of them TG oriented.

I'll keep you apprised of our HubZero investigation.  I can pass Mike's 
report on when it's done.

> 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" 

Sorry it took me so long to reply to this.  As I said on the call, the 
last three weeks have been crazy.

Jim
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Jim Leous
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