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COmanage, a collaboration management platform, has been in progress for several years. We have explored many ways of solving some of the complex problems around allowing the tools used for collaboration - wikis, mailing lists, and more - to interoperate in a federated environment for organizations that have no brick-and-mortar defining them. As the work continues, we have laid out the plans for the next several years, focusing our efforts on two large collaborative organizations (CO) - LIGO and iPlant - and any smaller CO interested in the tools and methodologies we are developing.
Primary Market = Large interinstitutional inter-institutional research groups and collaborative organizations
Secondary Markets = education and research-related committees, small interinstitutional inter-institutional research groups and collaborative organizations
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- Additional federated SSH architectures and implementations will be added to the toolkit, leveraging work within IETF and in Project Moonshot *IN PROGRESS*
- Creation of a User-driven Provisioning/de-provisioning library
- Create a flexible enrollment workflow to bring individuals in to COmanage *IN PROGRESS*
- Develop OpenSocial toolkit for other COs and tools to present COmanage
- Demonstrate an active, production instance of COmanage within a participating CO
- Advanced CAMP to discuss new issues and changes to CO IAM problems in an evolving landscape
- *See the CoCoA effort*
- Hold an international meeting with CO architects and developers to discuss specific and unique IAM needs in the research collaboration environment *SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 2012DONE*
Year three (2012-2013)
- Privilege management basics within Grouper for leveraging within COmanage.COmanage
- Demonstrate an active, production instance of COmanage within a participating CO
- A toolkit for CO *See the CoCoA effort*
- General release of COmanage (v1.0)
- Create a business model for a service instance, and determine levels of support with/for the participating CO
- Review progress and status and report back to funding agencies, international collaborators, and other interested parties on lessons learned, successes and failures of COmanage effort
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