Companion doc to Technical Roadmap
COmanage Product Roadmap (Functional)
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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 four large collaborative organizations (CO) - LIGO, iPlant, OOI, and NEON - and any smaller CO interested in the tools and methodologies we are developing.
Primary Market = Large interinstitutional research groups and collaborative organizations
Secondary Markets = education and research-related committees, small interinstitutional research groups and collaborative organizations
Already completed in the COmanage effort
- Creation and demonstration of prototype instances
- Evaluation of possible downloadable/VM instance
- Initial collaboration with international groups
- NSF grant approval (Award 1032468)
Expected deliverables
Year one (2010-2011)
- Complete requirements gathering from participating CO
- Develop a Registry of Domesticated Applications
- Creation of a User-driven Provisioning/de-provisioning library ??
- Using a federated SSH toolset, a comprehensive federated SSH service will be installed in the CO, including provisioning and de-provisoning capabilities
- Within the primary CO, COmanage will be implemented with appropriate UI for the CO
- A pilot COmanage instance within InCommon ??
- Determinations around levels of support with/for the participating CO
- Extensive outreach with other international collaborative platform efforts (COIN)
- Web services presentation of COmanage services for use by other applications, gateways, portals, etc.
- Presentations will be made at Internet2 member meetings and the LIGO, iPlant, OOI and NEON all-hands meetings or other CO-appropriate forum
Year two (2011-2012)
- Additional federated SSH architectures and implementations will be added to the toolkit, leveraging work within IETF and in Project Moonshot
- Install COmanage instance in a cloud infrastructure
- Develop OpenSocial toolkit for other COs and tools to present COmanage
Year three (2012-2013
- Privilege management basics within Grouper for leveraging within COmanage.
- A toolkit for CO
- Open up COmanage to additional large CO
Out of initial scope (but still on the list)
- Customizations based on secondary markets
- Support of domain-specific tools within a COmanage instance