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NMI-EDIT Outreach:The first five years
Topics for Today
NMI-EDIT background Activities Outcomes Resources
Background National Science Foundation’s
Middleware Initiative (NMI) Funded NMI-EDIT to build interoperable identity
and access management infrastructure
NMI – Enterprise Desktop Integration Technologies (EDIT) Consortium Internet2 content and development lead EDUCAUSE outreach and education lead
Strategic Direction
Overall technical direction set by MACEMiddleware Architecture Committee for Education (MACE)
Campus IT architects and representatives from Grids, national, and international communities
Development: Tools, Practices
Enterprise Directories eduPerson schema, practice papers, schema
checking service, Roadmap Authentication
WebISOs Roadmap
Authorization Signet Privilege Management System Grouper Group Toolkit
Federated IdM Shibboleth
Outreach Goals
Prime Directives: 1. Help campuses deploy interoperable identity and
access management infrastructures to achieve their goals
2. Do no harm (…no Star Fleet personnel may interfere with the healthy development of alien life and culture.)
Methods Used1. Listen2. Interpret
(Repeat)
Listen and…
Primary Audience – management, project management, technical staff Special Categories
Small Schools State Systems
Secondary Audience – campus stakeholders Registrars Business Officers (and Librarians and Academic Medical Centers)
Interpretation MethodPrimary IT Audience
Small Schools
State HE Systems Registrars CFOS
Awareness
Presentations X X X X X
Journal Articles X X X X X
Press Releases X X X
Education, Training, and Content Delivery
CAMP Workshops X X
EDUCAUSE Annual/Regional & Internet2 Member Meeting Workshops
X X X
Other Workshops X X X
Deployment Roadmaps X X X
NMI-EDIT Web Site X X X X X
E-Mail List X X X
Case Studies X X X
CDs X X X
The Numbers 46 workshops
15 CAMPS and 31 other 2,770 total attendance 1,640 distinct participants 610 institutions/organizations
517 US 93 International
700 CDs 60+ awareness presentations
Hundreds of campus collaborators 1 (2?) roadmaps
English and Portuguese 1+ website 17 case studies 6 articles in AACRAO, NACUBO, and EDUCAUSE publications 1 mini-grant program…
Extending the Reach
Outreach/education scaling experiment State Higher-ed Systems and Network Providers Modest funding Leverage existing education/outreach channels to
spread the word about IdM and NMI-EDIT Consortium
Four awards University of Alaska System University of Texas System California State University System Great Plains Network Consortium
ETR: They Played Together Well
Jumpstarted… Texas higher-ed federation
Federated wireless access, benefits and training Great Plains research collaboration
Bioinformatics data and applications Sourced IdM for resource-strapped schools Medical publications/applications shared
among Houston medical centers Other implementations beyond ETR
participants
ETR: They Played Together Well
Benefited 332,000 faculty, staff, and students
Touched 43 campuses, health centers, and state network providers
Funded outreach to MSI schools in Alaska, CA, TX and Great Plains
Supported three master’s theses and article in Scalable Computing
Resources
www.nmi-edit.org www.educause.edu/idm middleware.internet2.edu
Ann West awest at educause.edu awest at internet2.edu