Shibboleth Developers

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Agenda:

1) Startup
      - Roll call, agenda bash
      - Intellectual Property Rights Awareness: Internet2
Intellectual Property Framework
                (http://members.internet2.edu/intellectualproperty.html)

2) status updates, v1.3 --
        - any serious issues arising from testing of the beta?
        -- tasks to complete during the beta process
        -- remaining blockers for release?
        -- release target date -- week after catalyst?
        -- any documentation blockers?

        -- custom extension mechanisms update

3)  java target status

3) Catalyst interop update

5) the Shib web site http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/ -- I'm 
convinced this needs to be rethought. Increasingly, CIOs and IT 
management are looking at the site to learn -- quickly -- what Shib 
is, how it could provide value to them, and what makes it unique. 
Here's a recent example, where a number of people from a US federal 
agency were directed to learn about shib:

> 1.	.... will e-mail all participants the URL of the Shibboleth 
> web site.  Everyone will visit that site and get a general 
> understanding of the components, protocols, and features of that 
> approach to federated authentication and authorization.

A year or so ago we changed the web site from a Working Group focus 
to a Deployers focus; now I think we have to change it again, with 
the primary audience for the top  level page being IT management, and 
providing appropriate links for other audiences.

I'd like to take a few minutes to kick off this conversation:

1) are there sites that do a good job addressing a similar problem?

2) thoughts on site organization?

3) general comments about the site..... (things that are good, things 
that are not so good...)