Shibboleth Developers

[Chad La Joie <>]

Just wanted to ping people on this.  I haven't heard anything, but a lot
of people may have been getting ready for, or been on, holidays.  Is
there any interest in this?

Chad La Joie wrote:
> We have a development opportunity related to the Discovery Service, if
> there is some person, or group, who is interested in helping out with
> Shibboleth.
> 
> The Discovery Service has proven to be about the best interface for
> declaring a person's home organization.  However the current default UI
> is a bit rough from a usability perspective.  So, we'd like to give it a
> face lift.
> 
> So far, the following ideas have been floated within the core team:
> - Clean up the HTML and make it strict XHTML with formatting moved
> appropriately to CSS
> - Search as you type functionality in the IdP search box
> - Ensuring the DS page meets various accessibility standards (W3 WAI, US
> Section 508, etc.)
> - Proper Internationalization support
> 
> We are looking for people with a really good CHI background.  Being a
> skilled programmer is NOT a requirement, we can help with the code.
> We'd also like proper usability testing of whatever UI design is settled
> upon.
> 
> So, if you're interested either reply to this email on-list or send me a
> note directly.  If you know of people who might be interested, but
> probably aren't on this list, just forward the mail along to them.
> 

-- 
SWITCH
Serving Swiss Universities
--------------------------
Chad La Joie, Software Engineer, Net Services
Werdstrasse 2, P.O. Box, 8021 Zürich, Switzerland
phone +41 44 268 15 75, fax +41 44 268 15 68
,
 http://www.switch.ch