InCommon Pilot Call
October 24, 2013
PARTICIPANTS: Steve Olshansky (Internet2), Andy Fleming (KanREN), George Laskaris (NJEDge), David Dennis (Merit) Nikki Trinka (Merit), Mark Scheible (MCNC), Guy Jones, MDREN, Ann West (InCommon/Internet2),
TASKS:
MEETING NOTES: (Call Recorded)
1) Roll Call, Agenda Bash, Approve Minutes, Intellectual Property Rights Policy Reminder
http://www.internet2.edu/membership/ip.html
2) *Brief* updates from each of the 8 pilots
a) MDREN - Pursuing another pilot / academic transformation (Instruction and teaching side of the house and improving it through blending courses by bringing in new tools and rich information and analytics) May tie them in with earlier Shibboleth and SeeVogh conversations.
b) Nebraska – Hosted Shibboleth training this week. Was well attended and brought the efforts forward. Will be having a discussion next week to debrief. Had a good conversation with Illinois about the shared learning program. As they start to do a more formal design and plan, they would like to be able to send it out to the group via email for feed back. The process while moving forward, has taken longer to set up than thought.
c) Merit – Not a lot of progress n the last two weeks due to scheduling with the pilot. Other aspects are moving forward
d) MCNC – Steve has been working with the group around IdP. InCommon application has been filled out and they are in the process of getting that submitted Moving forward with setting up Moodle space and SAML.
3) *Important* Case studies, lessons learned, etc.
a) Nebraska is putting time into this. Would like to set a goal of the February Meeting to have some documentation available to share. Consider this to be breaking trail for the organizations to follow. The starting point could be the template and provide a bit more detail in the wiki space. There is information in the wiki space
b) Ping list and individuals to ask for permission to make the information public so it can be used as a starting point.
4) InCommon/Quilt Meeting in February
a) Desired outcomes
b) Could the Pilot Def call be used a program committee discussion?
c) Topic - Business agreements between K-12 and InCommon
d) As the program gets developed it would be good to share what has been learned with the original workshop group
5) Changing call frequency/duration?
a) The group supports a 30 minute call duration
b) Requesting email updates from pilots who couldn’t attend would be helpful.
c) SteveO to send out
6) Ann has gotten good feedback
7) InCommon Technical Advisory Committee has set up a Sub Committee
a) Federation relationships are on their radar
b) Paul Caskey is on this sub committee on the tech side and
i) Code of Conduct – self attested statements that the vendors would abide to (perhaps to K-12 also)
c) It would be beneficial to invite Paul to La Jolla and put him on the agenda.
8) Action item recap, next call Thursday 7-November at 4:00 PM EDT
END OF CALL