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[Scott Koranda <>]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Scott Koranda 
<>
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I submitted an abstract for a *demo* to this meeting:
>
> http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/Conferences/ADASS2012/
>
> The demo fee is $300. I intend to pay for it out of my grant.
>
> If accepted, our "booth" will be me (and whomever else wants
> to be present) with my laptop and a large monitor. We will
> on-the-fly create COs against the COmanage demo deployment and
> invite conference attendees from InCommon institutions to join
> the CO and then access a wiki.
>
> For people not from an InCommon institution we can consider
> Google and also the LIGO Guest IdP.
>
> I am listed as the lead "author" and Benn, Heather, Ken,
> Marie, and Steve are co-authors.
>
> We would probably also want to have a poster that would sit
> next to me in the booth.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott

Here is the abstract. I decided to sound less academic and use plainer
language than for the SPIE abstract:

Consider a group of researchers from different astronomy projects who
have an idea for a joint project and want to collaborate. Their online
collaboration would be more efficient if they all had easy login
access to the same wiki, calendar, mail lists, and web portals. The
usual solution is to provision a new electronic identity, login, or
account for each researcher. This solution, however, is bothersome for
users since they acquire yet another new account and for
administrators since they need to support ever more users. A better
solution is to enable access for each researcher using an existing
electronic identity he or she uses everyday.

Most campuses, laboratories, facilities, and organizations issue
electronic identities to their members. Many of these institutions in
the United States have joined the InCommon identity federation and
have agreed to federate these identities so that their members can
access web resources outside their home institution using their home
credentials. More organizations join InCommon each week including many
research projects and laboratories. Similar identity federations exist
in Canada, Europe, Australia, and Japan. Recently the LIGO project
joined InCommon to facilitate efficient online collaboration between
LIGO scientists and researchers from other astronomy and astrophysics
projects.

LIGO, together with collaborators from Internet2, is building the
COmanage suite of tools for Collaborative Organization management.
Using COmanage and leveraging federated identities we plan to
streamline electronic collaboration between LIGO and other astronomy
projects so that scientists spend less time managing accounts and
access control and more time doing science.

We will demonstrate using COmanage to create a new collaborative
project, invite researchers to join the project using existing
electronic identities they already have, and immediately grant access
to collaborative tools like wikis and portals. Any conference attendee
from a participating InCommon campus or organization will be eligible
to be invited during the demonstration and then instantly access web
resources and start collaborating using his or her existing federated
identity.