COmanage Developers List

[Heather Flanagan <>]

Hi all,

Feedback on this session proposal for the New and Improved Internet2
meeting?  I would like to get this submitted and the WG session
cancelled by Wednesday of this week.

Thanks!
Heather

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Integrating the Campus Enterprise and the Researcher

Supporting the IT needs at a campus-wide scale while still being
responsive to the unique needs of the academic is a challenge found at
institutions of all levels.  But what if CIOs could securely and easily
let researchers configure the services they need with the identity
management and collaboration tools already in place?  What if CIOs could
offer a platform that allowed researchers to create ad hoc research
groups of both on- and off-campus members and then self-select the tools
most useful to their collaboration?  What if this could all happen with
minimal hands-on support by central IT services?  This session will
demonstrate just such a platform under development: CoCoA.

CoCoA is a blending of two open source collaboration management
platforms, COmanage and OpenConext.

The COmanage Project, funded by the National Science Foundation and
Internet2, is a platform that allows small groups to meet their research
objectives without building their own stand-alone identity management
infrastructures. By leveraging federated identity management services
and standard group and registry tools, authentication and authorization
are handled in a single, efficient process that integrates a mix of
collaboration attributes and each member's home organization attributes
into all of the various applications that serve a collaboration community.

OpenConext was developed by SURFnet as part of the SURFworks and
GigaPort3 programme.  It is an open source technology stack for creating
and running collaboration platforms and creates a powerful front end for
users to choose for themselves and their workgroups the right
applications for their collaborations.  When combined with the COmanage
Registry service, collaborations have a complete solution from front to
back for identity management and collaboration needs.


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