Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Tom Barton <>]

Welcome aboard, Cal. I look forward to learning from your experiments 
and experiences, and to your input into grouper's future.

Tom

caleb racey wrote:
> Hello from the Gfivo project in Newcastle University in the UK
>
> I met some of the community at the internet2 CAMPs in Portland but for
> those that don't know we are engaged in a 2 year project to examine the
> use of "grouper to support federated identity in virtual organisations".
> What that means is we are looking at ways of using grouper to enable
> research groups to have community blogs, wikis, mailing lists etc to
> support communication. The federated identity bit means that these
> groups can be made up of members from multiple institutes; we will be
> using our shibboleth infrastructure to support this use case.   The
> project is jointly funded by JISC and institutional contribution from
> Newcastle University.
>
> We are just starting out with our grouper install and setting it up with
> data relevant to our institute.  We are having performance issue like
> others have reported but will post about them later.
>
> For those wishing to know more the project website is at
> http://gfivo.ncl.ac.uk   we plan on using blogs and news feeds to
> provide regular updates to the site. We will also be posting to the
> grouper mailing list and contributing to the wiki. Now we eventually
> have the ability to use skype we will also be participating in the DEV
> conferences calls.  
>
> Looking forward to the next 2 years
>
> Cal Racey
> Gfivo project
> Webteam
> ISS
> Newcastle University
> UK