Shibboleth workshop 2019

["Erin Murtha " <>]

InCommon Shibboleth Workshop * March 30 - April 1, 2019
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Seminar Room at the UMBC Technology Center / South Campus
1450 S. Rolling Road #1 Halethorpe, MD 21227

9:00 am - 5:00 pm Eastern Standard Time

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You are receiving this note because you registered for the InCommon Shibboleth
Installation Workshop, April 30 - May 1, 2019, at the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County. Here is some important information to make your experience
productive and enjoyable.

We have created a wiki page that should answer most of your questions about
location, parking, hotels, driving directions, and the like:
https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=143720678

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Training Location:
Seminar Room at the UMBC Technology Center / South Campus
1450 S. Rolling Road #1
Halethorpe, MD 21227

Check-in opens at 8:30 a.m. EST, and the sessions will begin at 9 a.m. (there
will be coffee). Note that we provide lunch and refreshment breaks, but we do
not provide breakfast.

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Parking:
There is free parking available in the South Campus parking lot. View
accessible routes, parking and building entrances here.  Additional maps of
the campus can be found here.

Hotels:
There are multiple hotels recommended by UMBC staff. See the wiki for further
property details - distance from the training location, rates, and contact
information.

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Airport and Transportation:
See the wiki for details. UMBC  is easily served by the Baltimore Washington
International Thurgood Marshall airport, Amtrak, and Baltimore’s mass
transportation system.


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Before You Arrive and Workshop Virtual Machines:
Please note that the training requires you to bring a laptop. You will need to
have either an RDP client (for Windows) or SSH client (for Linux), plus root
access to modify your etc/host files, depending on your choice of operating
system for this class.

The training makes use of Virtual Machines (VMs), in this case derived from
Amazon Marketplace Images (AMI) loaded on Amazon Web Services. The training
team will provide access instructions when you arrive for the first day of the
training. You will have the choice of running the VM in your own AWS instance,
or having Internet2 and InCommon host the VM on your behalf.

You will need root/administrator access on the computer you will be bringing
to class so that you can modify the local hosts file.
If you choose to use the Internet2/InCommon-hosted instance, your VM will be
available during the training and for two weeks after the training. After two
weeks, the VM will no longer exist, so be sure to save anything you need
within two weeks of the end of the training.

Use of Duo for MFA - We will have an MFA module during the training, which
requires the Duo mobile app. You can use your institutional account (if you
use telephony credits, there may be a charge), or you can set up a free test
account to use for the training (https://duo.com/).

Please review the preparation instructions for your environment
Linux:
https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/ShibInstallFest/Linux+Preparation+for+Participants
Windows:
https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/ShibInstallFest/Windows+Preparation+for+Participants

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Registration/Sign-In:
OBTAIN YOUR NAME BADGE and other important meeting materials outside the
training room, which opens at 8:30 a.m. We suggest you arrive by 8:45, to
allow enough time to check in, browse the beverages, and get your laptop up
and running.

CASUAL ATTIRE is suggested. All software used is thread-safe, so steel-toed
boots, hard hats, and leather gloves are strictly optional.

BEVERAGES AND LUNCH: We do *not* provide breakfast in the morning, although we
do endorse the concept that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
That said, coffee, tea, soft drinks and water will be available and there will
be a mid-morning snack. Lunch *is* provided as part of your registration and
there will be an afternoon snack break, as well.

If you have any questions about the workshop or its technical content, please
send a note to 

We are looking forward to seeing you in Baltimore!

~ Paul Caskey, Paul Riddle, Kathy Wright, and Erin Murtha