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Hi All Some of you may be interested in this piece of work by SURFnet - it really is impressive stuff and a good demo for us UK-based people about taking access management out of the library and in to more collaborative areas. N Begin forwarded message: > From: Niels van Dijk <[log in to unmask]> > Date: 18 May 2011 17:50:26 GMT+01:00 > To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>, "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>, "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: [tf-emc2] SURFnet opensources OpenConext collaboration platform > > Hi all, > > Sorry beforehand for any cross posting. > > It is my pleasure to inform you that today at TNC2011 in Prague, we have Open > Sourced the SURFconext collaboration platform, as the OpenConext > project, http://www.openconext.org > > OpenConext is an open technology stack for creating and running > Collaboration platforms. It uses technologies from Federated Identity > Management, Group management and OpenSocial based Social Networking > Technology. The aim of the software product is to provide a middleware > platform that can combine generic and specialized collaboration tools > and services, within Research and Education and beyond, and make > these available for collaboration over institutional and national borders. > > OpenConext was developed by SURFnet as part of the SURFworks > programme. SURFnet runs an instance of the platform for research and > education in The Netherlands as SURFconext (http://www.surfconext.nl) > > OpenConext is build on top of many already available OpenSource > products. Core building blocks include: Corto, Janus, Apache Shindig > and the Apache Rave incubator project, as well as Grouper, Shibboleth > and SimpleSamlphp. Some of these are wrapped by OpenConext to be > easily integrated into the platform, others are used mostly out of the > box and only need configuration to work with the platform. > > The links to source code repositories are available on the OpenConext > wiki, together with installation instructions in the source code and > some additional information on this wiki. With this information > technically oriented people should be able to install, configure and > run the platform for their own use. If you choose to do so, please > please drop us a message, we are keen to learn what use cases you have > with the platform. We also welcome any collaboration on further > development on the platforms components and technologies. > Contact details for the OpenConext team at SURFnet can be found in the > support section of the wiki. Note that we are currently only providing limited > support, via a mailinglist and a Jira bugtracker. > > All source code that is not already covered under another license, is > licensed by SURFnet under the Apache License, Version 2.0. > > Kind regards, > > Niels van Dijk, > SURFnet, The Netherlands >