Middleware Announcements

[Renee Frost <>]

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UPCOMING CAMP MIDDLEWARE WORKSHOPS
- CAMP Shibboleth 2.0: Hands-on Technical Workshop * May 13-15 * Ann
  Arbor, Michigan
  http://www.educause.edu/camp082
- Advanced CAMP: Registering, Discovering, and Using Distributed
  Services in Academia * June 19-20 * Minneapolis, Minnesota
  http://www.educause.edu/camp083
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Join us in the Midwest for upcoming middleware workshops!

CAMP SHIBBOLETH 2.0: HANDS-ON TECHNICAL WORKSHOP (May 13-15)
The CAMP Shibboleth 2.0: Hands-on Technical Workshop will complement
the June 2007 Shibboleth CAMP by providing attendees with technical
installation and configuration experience with Shibboleth version 2.0.
Developed for campuses new to Shibboleth and those with existing
implementations interested in upgrading to the 2.0 release, the
workshop will offer attendees the chance to:
* Install prototype Shibboleth identity and service providers
  components in a virtual machine environment.
* Hear tips for configuring and running the software in production.
* Learn about integration with LDAP directories and selected packages.
* Meet the Shibboleth Project Team and contribute to software
  development.
Knowledge of identity management concepts and related implementation
experience is strongly recommended.

LEARN MORE and REGISTER TODAY at
http://www.educause.edu/camp082

NOTE: Registration is very limited for this Shibboleth workshop.

ADVANCED CAMP: REGISTERING, DISCOVERING, AND USING DISTRIBUTED SERVICES
IN ACADEMIA (June 19-20)
Learn more about the issues in deploying web services and other
service-oriented approaches for supporting distributed academic
collaborations. The objective of this workshop is to discover the
leading functional and technical requirements for packaging,
registering, and discovering scholarly services and the means of
integrating them into new scholarly projects.

LEARN MORE and REGISTER TODAY at
http://www.educause.edu/camp083

ITANA MEETING: JUNE 18
If you're interested in attending the ITANA Face2Face 2008 meeting
immediately preceding Advanced CAMP, please see the ITANA website
<https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/itana/Face2Face+2008>
for registration and program information. NOTE: This meeting will also
be held at the Hilton Minneapolis.

CAMP SPONSORS
CAMP workshops are sponsored by the National Science Foundation
Middleware Initiative-Enterprise and Desktop Integration Technologies
(NMI-EDIT)Consortium: Internet2 and EDUCAUSE. Additional support was
provided by the National Science Foundation OCI-0330626. Additional
support for Advanced CAMP was provided by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation.

OTHER MIDDLEWARE RESOURCES
* Get started with identity management
  http://www.nmi-edit.org/
* View NMI-EDIT's Enterprise Directory Implementation Roadmap
  http://www.nmi-edit.org/roadmap/dir-roadmap_200510/index-set.html
* View NMI-EDIT's Enterprise Authentication Implementation Roadmap
  http://www.nmi-edit.org/roadmap/draft-authn-roadmap-03/
* Access PROCEEDINGS from past CAMP meetings
  http://www.educause.edu/camp
* Browse EDUCAUSE CONNECT resources and sign up for E-MAIL ALERTS on
  middleware
  http://connect.educause.edu/term_view/Middleware
* Subscribe to the 
Net@EDU
 Identity Management Working Group mailing
  list
  http://www.educause.edu/IdentityManagementWorkingGroup/928
* Learn more about the NMI-EDIT technical development led by the
  Internet2 Middleware Initiative
  http://middleware.internet2.edu