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Tom Barton, the primary architect and genius behind Grouper, entered the Internet2 sphere as an early adopter at University of Memphis, and began work on Grouper. This would date the start of Grouper to the first NMI grant, circa fall 2000. For more on NMI, see http://www.nmi-edit.org/
Grouper Project Leadership
- Tom Barton's leadership of Grouper continued as he moved from University of Memphis to University of Chicago.
- Leadership of Grouper passed to Chris Hyzer, University of Pennsylvania in 2015.
Early Grouper Releases
Grouper Version 0.5 was released around December 2004 as part of NSF Middleware Initiative's 6th release of components (ppt)
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Additional Notes
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Trivia
The demo subject LDAP database "KITN" (which still exists in Grouper's subject/testDB/ldap directory) refers to the fictitious "Kern Institute of Technology, Northam", a mock database originally created for the Signet project. The name was originally the "Kansas Institute of Technology Nashville" which appears in some earlier presentations.
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