Shibboleth Developers

Some background fodder, for one of the items on today's conf call agenda.....

Some quick thoughts, after last monday's  conversation, and a 
separate conversation with George/SteveO. Also, take a  look at 
drupal.org -- I'm rather impressed (except for the downloads tab)

this list is  intended as a set of of "quick fix" items, somewhat 
separate from the longer term fix, which I don't think we understand 
yet.... but the situation is so dire, that I think we need to do some 
things quickly....

comments and feedback welcome!

1) convey the impression Shib is real and professional quality; web 
site should reflect this...

2) top level page gets slimmed down --
	- a one or two sentence description of what shib does (eg 
http://www.rubyonrails.com/ , http://drupal.org/ )
	- some text, targeted at CIOs and tech directors, providing a 
general intro to shib (what it is, value it provides, what makes it 
unique, what's required to use it, when do we mentioned 
Federations?). Perhaps taken from the brochure 
http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/shibboleth-brochure01.html

        -- a "to learn more" link, to a new re-ordered documentation page...

	- a small frame with the most recent news items... 
(relationship of this to shibbing news)

        -- link to a demo

3) a radically simpler Nav bar --  (support (see drupal), downloads, 
contribute (see drupal), documentation, forum/email archives, contact)

4) re-use the existing downloads page 
http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/release/shib-latest.html

(but if I just glance at this page, I have trouble extracting its 
high level structure)

5) archive much of what's on the documentation page: 
http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/shibboleth-documents.html

-- address many of the items in this recent directive -- "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 set of "next steps"....

6) encourage people to sign up for shibboleth-announce

7) develop an FAQ for the general audience

Everyone will visit that site and get a general understanding of the 
components, protocols, and features of that approach to federated 
authentication and authorization.