COmanage Call 11-Dec-09
*Attending*
Heather Flanagan, Stanford (chair)
Tom Barton, U. Chicago
Michael Gettes, MIT
Jim Leous, Penn State
Chris Hubing, Penn State
Renee Frost, Internet2
Steve Olshansky, Internet2
Emily Eisbruch, Internet2 (scribe)
*Carry Over Action Items*
[AI] (SteveO) will talk with TomB about how the Grouper Lite UI in Grouper 1.5 will fit into COmanage.
[AI] (Ken) will check with Michael about contracting with the Penn State graduate student to work on COmanage documentation.
[AI] (Jim) will work with Renee on logistics for the Penn State graduate student documenting COmanage.
[AI] Ken will follow up with Shilen about domesticating Adobe Connect.
[AI] (Danno) will contact U. Minnesota about domesticating Adobe Connect.
[AI] (Ken) will email the COmanage-dev group explaining how they can join the CollabIdM list.
[AI] Ken will contact the Dutch to inquire about the possible European effort to set up a conference on collaboration platform projects.
[AI] (Heather) will resubmit the request for COmanage service for the Ivy+ Infrastructure.
[AI] (Michael, Heather, SteveO & StevenC) will work on solving issues with OpenMeetings.
[AI] (Michael) will work on integrating simpleSAMLphp and Foodle.
[AI] (SteveO, Ken, and Michael) will follow up on updating the WAYF to accommodate international participants.
*Discussion*
*Integrating Foodle*
Michael reported that he has worked on integrating Foodle into COmanage, but unfortunately, it only works when the SAML 2 IdPs are properly configured with a redirect. Only 12 out of 114 IdPs are configured properly to work with Foodle. The Internet2 IdP is one of those that works with COmanage and Foodle.
Michael stated that nothing else has changed in the COmanage development area.
*Tech Writer Status*
Jim will have the technical writing intern mentioned on a recent call in place for January. Jim will contact Renee to discuss logistics (contract details, etc.)
Heather noted the importance of getting documentation in place, extending beyond how to setup a COmanage instance, to explain things such as how to properly configure an IdP to work with Foodle and COmanage.
*Applications in COmanage*
Heather asked the Penn State representatives if there are compelling applications that are missing from COmanage. Jim replied that JIRA is the primary one, but that the problems of integrating JIRA are known.
*LIGO Requirements*
TomB mentioned recent contacts between the LIGO team and the Grouper team concerning audit requirements. LIGO would like to be able to look at membership in a group at a particular point in time. This can be helpful, e.g. in knowing who should be included in authorship of publications.
The Grouper user interface will expose audit data, and Tom raised the possibility that the COmanage user interface could also be a place where audit data is exposed.
*Support Model*
Heather reported that she and SteveO have been drafting a report on a COmanage support model. The hope is to present this to the group during January.
Possibilities:
- Internet2 or InCommon offer COmanage support directly
- Member campuses offer the COmanage support service
- Vendors offer it
- Partner organizations (e.g. EDUCAUSE) offer it
A goal is to be at least self-sustaining in the funding of this support service.
*CSG*
The Winter 2010 CSG Workshops and Meeting will be held at UCSD on 13-15 January 2010.
On the morning of 13-Jan there is a workshop on Collaborative Platforms, coordinated by Michael, Ken, Chuck Powell, and Bruce Vincent.
*Internet2 SMM*
Heather will submit a proposal for a WG and a track session at Internet2 SMM.http://events.internet2.edu/2010/spring-mm/
Next COmanage Call: Friday, 8-Jan-2010 at 2pm ET.