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The COmanage Project has been undergoing a significant effort to fully update Registry into Version 5.0. In this month’s newsletter, we are dedicating some time to explaining COmanage Registry’s Milestone Release strategy, a process that we are using to track progress toward v5.0, and enable those using the software to contribute feedback and input along the process.
Yes, it has been a long time since we sent our newsletter. As you know, the COmanage project is supported by individual contributors. While we have been able to continue our development and software support activities, some personal obligations have made it temporarily difficult for us to keep up with these communications. Fortunately, things are now back on track, and we expect to continue as we had. Today, we’re sharing two other activities that will resume in March: Open Office Hours and COmanage Training.
We hope to see you for the COmanage Project sessions this week.
Our sincere apologies for the hiatus in sending our newsletter and hosting open office hours. Circumstances out of our control had our team members attending to other critical tasks, and our monthly communication suffered as a result. But the good news is that we now have so much more to share with you!!
This month we’re trying out an Australia-friendly time for our Open Office Hours. We hope you will join us for an interesting Topic Aperitif about how COmanage and CILogon are being leveraged in several projects in Australia. These projects enable streamlined information sharing and decision making by Data Access Committees, and bring deeper connections between people and the research results and artifacts that they work with.
We started 2023 with new releases to COmanage Registry AND Match! This month we’ll highlight some of the things you can expect to find in these updates and where to go for more information.
What a year it has been. We have been taking a moment to reflect on the COmanage Project journey this year. And what a journey it has been! We thank the community for their continued inspiration, collaboration, and support throughout the year. We couldn’t have accomplished so many great things without you!
We’ll take an Open Office Hours break in early January, but we will be back at our monthly sessions in February. Happy New Year!
If you have been curious about the work that the team has been doing on COmanage Registry version 5.0.0, this is your month. Here we highlight some of this work, including what components we have been prioritizing, how we are thinking about the user interface of this new version, and rough ideas about timing. Our Open Office Hours will be LIVE! at Technology Exchange in Denver with a broadcast through zoom for those who won’t be there in person.
How does your organization manage the IAM changes that come with the changes in roles, status, and affiliation that happen within your registered population? We invite you to take a look at the new wiki page in our COmanage Registry User Guide about offboarding and expiration policies. As you’re pondering this question, consider joining us for Open Office Hours a little earlier than usual (tomorrow!!) We will be welcoming the latest cohort of Registry training workshop participants as we pick topics to discuss in more detail. Finally, mark your calendar to join us at TechEx in December in Denver for Open Office Hours Live! Meet the development team in person and get a peak at the upcoming version of Registry. You won’t want to miss this one!!
This month we invite you to take a closer look. Our Open Office Hours Topic Aperitif features an exploration of the container packaging documentation, an essential resource to ensuring that your Registry and Match installations are just as you want them. We also zoom in on a new feature for Registry 4.1, Person Vetting, which is useful for background checks and compliance. In our News section, note the different dates and times for the last two Open Office Hours for the year, in particular our LIVE! one in December at TechEx.
This month we will take a small break in our programming during Open Office Hours to accommodate those who may be taking a long US Labor Day holiday. Hopefully, you still will join us for some ice cream trivia fun as an ice (cream) breaker to our COmanage questions and discussion. COmanage-specific Topic Aperitifs will return next month. In this newsletter, we share how we plan for containerized versions of COmanage. Also, check out the News section that outlines our plans for connecting with the community through the end of the calendar year.
It’s here! The long-awaited COmanage Match v1.0.0 has been released! There has been so much interest in Match that we decided to dedicate this month’s newsletter to it. Come by next week to see Match in action during our Open Office Hours. Take a look at our documentation. And, follow some useful links that we have included. We can’t wait to hear what you think!
Today we’re welcoming the latest cohort of COmanage Registry workshop participants. We hope that you’ll join us for the open office hours (at a new time this month), to help welcome them to the community. We have been busy this month with plenty of meetings and travel. We’re looking forward to sharing more about what we’ve learned next month!
In this month’s newsletter, we have a little of this and a little of that to share. We will be welcoming LIGO to our Open Office Hours to share their experience with building and using a custom Registry plugin. We also share an excerpt from our Help & Support page, How to File a Bug Report. Finally, in June we will have a bonus training session for COmanage Registry and will be changing the date of next month’s Open Office Hours to include this new training cohort.
One of our favorite parts about working on COmanage is the rich discussions and collaborations that we have with the community members. This group makes COmanage possible and inspires and drives the impact of the software, both in the offered features and how COmanage is used. This month features an Open Office Hours discussion from CILogon, which maintains one of the largest COmanage installations, and an updated wiki landing page for our community resources.
