Grouper Developers Forum

[Tom Barton <>]

As in the past, there will be a grouper working group meeting on "BoF 
Monday" at the Internet2 meeting in April. It's scheduled for 
9:15-10:15am. Unlike in the past, this will be a grouper-only working 
group, not shared with the signet project (alas). There will be a 
separate session for the MACE-paccman working group.

The abstract I submitted yesterday reads:

"Grouper developers, adopters, and potential adopters come together to 
discuss feedback from the field, get clear on the different types of 
user interaction scenarios and how the Grouper toolkit should address 
them, and hear about new and upcoming features."

I thought it would be good to use the occasion to "get clear on the 
different types of user interaction scenarios". Basically, I'm 
interested to hear about approaches adopters have taken or would like to 
take to UIs for managing groups. When is a general purpose group 
management UI needed vs a UI element embedded in another application 
context vs a separate UI for managing a single group, or some more 
focused aspect of group management?

I'm also looking for people who'd like to give feedback on how grouper 
worked to solve some problem, or perhaps you found it couldn't do so 
because of something it lacks.

If you don't plan to attend but have feedback on grouper's adoptability 
or a view to contribute to the UI discussion, please either let someone 
know so they can proxy your input, or write the list and we can start 
the discussion here. I'd be happy to proxy anyone's input.

Thanks,
Tom