InCommon News - June 7, 2010
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In This Issue:
- IAM Online June 10: Handling Affiliate Populations
- Shibboleth Workshop Series July 28, 29
- Featured Affiliate for June: Unicon
- InCommon Signs Certificate Service Agreement
- CAMP and Advance CAMP Full
- New Participants
- New Sponsored Partners
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IAM Online June 10 - Handling Affiliate Populations
Guests, parents and other affiliated populations may fall outside of the norm for an identity management system that was originally developed to accommodate faculty, staff and students. The next IAM Online (June 10; 1 p.m. EDT) will explore the capabilities of a guest and affiliate system and ways in which to track these populations, including provisioning and deprovisioning services. Speakers are Brendan Bellina from the University of Southern California, and Liz Salley from the University of Michigan. For details, go to www.incommon.org/iamonline.
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Shibboleth Workshop Series July 28, 29
Have you decided to deploy a web single sign-on (SSO) system and leverage it to access resources and contracted services in the InCommon Federation? Do you need training on installation and support? Consider attending one or both of the sessions in the Shibboleth Workshop Series (two one-day workshops - one for identity provider and one for service provider), July 28-29 at Northwestern University. See the details at www.incommon.org/educate/shibboleth.
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Featured Affiliate for June: Unicon
Unicon, Inc. is a leading provider of IT consulting services for the education market, specializing in using open source technologies to deliver flexible and cost-effective systems in the areas of enterprise portals, LMS, authentication, video, calendaring, email, and collaboration. Unicon services for Shibboleth include implementation planning, branding, installation, configuration, custom development, mentoring and support. www.unicon.net/opensource/Shibboleth
The Affiliate Program connects higher education institutions and their federating partners with commercial or non-profit organizations that provide software, content, guidance, support, and implementation and integration services related to participating in the federation. www.incommon.org/affiliate
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InCommon Signs Certificate Service Agreement
InCommon has signed the agreement with Comodo to offer the InCommon Certificate Service to the higher education community, providing unlimited server and personal certificates at a low, fixed fee. Beta testing is getting underway now, with full rollout of SSL certs expected this summer, with personal certs to follow. To join the announce-only email list, send email to sympa@incommonfederation.org with this in the subject: subscribe inc-cert. More information is available at www.incommon.org/cert
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CAMP and Advance CAMP Full
Two meetings set for June 21-25 have filled and registration is closed. CAMP: Exploring and Supporting Federated Identity, and Advance CAMP: The Second Identity Services Summit, have both exceeded registration expectations.
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New Participants in May
Sponsored Partners
- University of Southampton (www.soton.ac.uk)
- Fragomen (www.fragomen.com)
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New Sponsored Partners
The University of Southampton (www.soton.ac.uk) is one of the top 15 research universities in the UK and has achieved consistently high scores for its teaching and learning activities. The School of Geography is collaborating with University of Leeds (UK) and Penn State University in the provision an online GIS Masters Program. Through its membership of InCommon, Southampton is working to provide access to its VLE (Blackboard) to relevant students at PSU and Leeds. This will enable students from all three institutions to collaborate and learn together online. Southampton would like to thank PSU for kindly sponsoring its membership.
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