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The NMI-EDIT Consortium, funded in 2001, aims to establish a core middleware infrastructure for the research and education (R&E) community. With over 2,300 attendees across 40+ workshops, we focus on tools for inter-institutional collaboration and Identity and Access Management (IAM) using Shibboleth. Our outreach strategy includes awareness presentations, workshops, and case studies, primarily developed by campus representatives. Despite the increasing contributions, our challenge remains to engage more stakeholders, including policy officers and registrars, in implementing IAM solutions.
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NMI-EDIT Outreach:Campus Involvement Ann West EDUCAUSE/Internet2
NMI-EDIT Consortium • NSF Middleware Initiative – Enterprise and Desktop Integration Technologies • Funded in 2001 • Project Goals • Create a common, persistent and robust core middleware infrastructure for the R&E community • Provide tools and services in support of inter-institutional and inter-realm collaborations 6/14/2005 2
NMI-EDIT Consortium (cont.) • Identity and Access Management (IAM) • Directory Services, Authentication, Authorization, Federated IAM (Shibboleth), Diagnostic Tools • Model for R&E • Software, practices, tools • Seven releases 6/14/2005 3
NMI-EDIT Outreach • Goal: Deployment • Primary Methods • Awareness presentations and articles • Mini and Multiple-day CAMP Workshops • Web and CD resources • Case Studies 6/14/2005 4
Campus Involvement:Our 40+ Workshop Attendance • 2300+ total attendees • 1400+ unique participants • 510+ national and international organizations and institutions 6/14/2005 5
Campus Involvement:Outreach Work • Over 80% of our outreach products are written, delivered, or developed by campus representatives. • Our roles • Coordination, Collection, Distribution 6/14/2005 7
Campus Involvement:Examples • 6 workshops on NMI-EDIT research delivered and sponsored by others since August • 2 Implementation Roadmaps • Policy officers, auditors, technologists, project managers, CIOs • Over sixty percent our awareness presentations are delivered by campus representatives • 20+ speakers at upcoming workshops • 2 from Internet2/EDUCAUSE 6/14/2005 8
In Summary • More and more volunteers and contributions • Including new participants is a challenge • Spreading to stakeholder audiences • Business and policy officers, registrars… • Others doing our work for us • Requests for support activities increasing • Entire higher-ed systems implementing IAM 6/14/2005 9
Questions? Ann WestNMI-EDIT Outreach Coordinator awest@educause.edu 6/14/2005 10