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[Tom Zeller <>]

I have been hoping someone would contribute something that would lead
to a gapps connector.

I see some options. To provision using the psp we would need an
spml-to-gapps connector. To provision using openidm we would need an
openicf-grouper connector. Or maybe the psp could support openicf
connectors. Or maybe the psp could send spml to openidm.

Openidm has an openicf-gapps connector. I started an openicf-grouper
connector using grouper-ws based on Chris' grouperClient. I have
noticed that openidm's logic for provisioning groups seems to be
located mainly in the openicf connectors, which may be constraining.
Openidm does have full/bulk/batch "reconciliation" as well as
incremental "LiveSync".

Openidm/openicf does have a .net Active Directory connector which may
be useful when provisioning the Microsoft cloud offering 
(live@edu
 or
whatever the name is now).

Writing a gapps connector for the psp would be straightforward, I
started one, but I think folks would want to learn from the throttling
and tuning experiences that Brown and Washington and maybe others have
had.

Where openidm has chosen openicf, the psp has chosen spmlv2. Both
openicf and spml abstract crud and search operations, so integration
is possible. The openicf connectors I have seen are configured via
json, which if used in the psp, would make the proliferation of
configuration files and languages worse.

TomZ

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Steven Carmody
<>
 wrote:
> We've been doing this for about eighteen months. I have permission to 
> distribute the code; it has to be pried from the grip of the programmers, 
> tho. I believe that the Univ of Washington has been doing this even longer; 
> Jim Fox is the contact. Both sites use a message bus to make Grouper 
> changes available to a variety of listeners. We're on Grouper 1.6, trying 
> to move to 2.x this summer.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jun 26, 2012, at 11:30 PM, Gary Chapman 
> <>
>  wrote:
>
>> We're getting ready to decide if we want to provision [some] 
>> Grouper-managed groups to Google Groups.
>>
>> Has this been "done"?  Are folks working on this?  Thoughts?  Comments?
>>
>> Thinking PSP is the way to go these days...
>>
>> - Gary Chapman, NYU
>>
>>