Grouper Developers Forum

[Steve Olshansky <>]

New Action Items:
[AI] {Shilen} will put a new issue in Jira re: API changes proposed for v1.3
[AI] {Shilen} will send a message to the Dev list re: Grouper member query 
class
        - pros and cons
[AI] {Gary} will look into whether it would be advisable to split Jira GRP-7
into sub-issues
        https://bugs.internet2.edu/jira/browse/GRP-7
[AI] {Tom} will send a link to Introduce out to the Dev list (DONE - see 
below)


Tom Barton wrote:
> Following-up on an item discussed on the grouper-dev call yesterday.
> 
> Main Introduce website:
> http://www.cagrid.org/mwiki/index.php?title=Introduce
> 
> Best ppt about it:
> http://bmi.osu.edu/resources/presentations/Introduce-OGF19.ppt
> 
> And while we're at it, here's the main GridGrouper website:
> http://www.cagrid.org/mwiki/index.php?title=GridGrouper:Main
> 
> I recently learned that GridGrouper has been very successful in 3
> NIH-funded grids to which it has been deployed. The reasons seem to be:
> it's easy to install (leading to research groups sometimes installing
> their own to manage access to their apps and resources rather than using
> a centralized GridGrouper instance, even when those are running on the
> common grid); it solves real problems that have been intractable until
> now (eg, using delegation and group math); it is well integrated into
> the process for developing and managing grid applications (using
> Introduce), and its UI is easy to use. In short, the folks at OSU's
> Multiscale Computing Laboratory did a really nice job with it.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 

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