Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Steven Carmody <>]

Hi,

Like a growing number of schools, we have implemented a mechanism to 
replicate group memberships from Grouper to GAE. The initial 
implementation was very basic, and will create a group in GAE, and then 
manage the membership on an ongoing basis.

Initially, we were doing this with Course groups, and a small number of 
department-oriented groups. However, we're in the process of delegating 
to departments the ability and authority to create and mange groups to 
meet their local needs. We're discovering that people use groups for 
different purposes (duh ! ), and that in some cases they would like the 
properties of the target google group to be set differently from the 
defaults. This isn't really a surprise, and we expect to see the same 
sort of requests when we start replicating to AD in the next few weeks.

We're interested in starting a conversation about how to address these 
requirements. We're wondering whether other campuses have started to 
develop ways to address these sorts of requirements.

Looking forward to an interesting conversation !