Thanks Ross. Hope the overall event was as good as last year.
> I attended one and found that Chris was slowed down by people
> asking basic questions about the technology - I think there
> is a continuing need for John Paschoud's 'Shibb-101', as well
> as strong advocacy. However, I was able to talk with Chris
> afterwards and found many service-provider issues were
> shared, which was nice.
I know that Chris is indeed very good!
I'm flattered re the "continuing need..." - but getting slightly worried
about the prospect of a career until retirement age of giving Shib-101
presentations :-|
To this end we (the PERSEUS Project at LSE) have produced a version of
'Shib-101', aimed primarily at IT support people for institutional
libraries (who are likely to end up running institutional IdP services),
with quite extensive speaker notes; the idea being that somebody else
(not called John Paschoud) can use it.
It's the LSE Dspace (URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1988/2771). Comments
welcomed (to this list) from anyone who wants to beta-test it.
Obviously, if you want my own sparkling wit and flair with it, the price
is going up... ;->
There's also a self-contained website "Shibboleth @ LSE"
(http://www.angel.ac.uk/ShibbolethAtLSE/index.html - with matching
t-shirts!) to bring together information focussed on just the
institutional rollout issues, which others might find useful.
> (Note that though Terry Morrow was due to attend, he was
> unfortunately taken ill - hope he's recovered.)
I'm due to give a presentation on the ShibboLEAP (early adopter) Project
at Internet2 Spring next week. I anticipate questions about the wider
state of the overall 'UK Shib project', so I'm hoping that Terry won't
mind if I crib freely from his bit at the end of Chris' presentation
(and that he'll get well soon).
Is that as fully up-to-date as I'll get (by tomorrow)? ...or is there
more?
BTW, which of you other Limeys is going to Internet2 Spring?
John
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