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InCommon News
April 5, 2010

In This Issue:
* IAM Online April 8
* CAMP, Advance CAMP Programs Available
* Two New InCommon Operations Email Lists
* InCommon at Internet2 Spring Member Meeting
* Two InCommon Sessions Available to Remote Participants
* New Participants
* New Sponsored Partners

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IAM Online April 8 – Making Federation Happen


The next IAM Online will take place Thursday, April 8, at 1 p.m. EDT. John 
O’Keefe (Lafayette College) and Joel Cooper (Carleton College) will present 
“Making Federation Happen,” a look at how to get up and running with 
InCommon. See the details at www.incommonfederation.org/iamonline

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CAMP, Advance CAMP Programs Available

The program has been posted for the InCommon CAMP (Campus Architecture and 
Middleware Planning), which will focus on exploring and supporting federated 
identity management (June 21-23 in Raleigh, North Carolina). Check out the 
details at www.incommon.org/camp.

Program development for Advance CAMP, The Second Identity Services Summit, is 
taking place online. Registration is also open for Advance CAMP (June 23-25 
in Raleigh, North Carolina) at www.incommon.org/camp

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Two New InCommon Operations Email LIsts

InCommon operations announces two new one-way communication email lists. One 
will provide information about changes in the metadata. The other will 
include important technical notices from InCommon to all site administrators 
and other technical contacts. For information, go to 
www.incommon.org/contacts.cfm

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InCommon at Internet2 Spring Member Meeting

The Internet2 Spring Member Meeting (April 26-28 in Arlington, Virginia) has 
a program chock full of sessions about InCommon, identity management, and 
middleware. For details, see http://bit.ly/czx5DL

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Two InCommon Sessions Available to Remote Participants

Can’t make the member meeting? The InCommon Forum and “InCommon Grows Up” 
will both be available to remote participants. The Forum will address current 
issues and InCommon Grows Up will feature Kevin Morooney and Jack Suess, 
InCommon Steering’s chair and vice chair, outlining new services and 
near-term plans for InCommon. Details are here: 
https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/8oHO

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New Participants in March

Higher Education
-       Loyola University of Chicago (www.luc.edu) 
-       University of Oregon (www.uoregon.edu)
-       California State University, East Bay (www20.csueastbay.edu)
-       California State University, Bakersfield (www.csub.edu)
-       California State University, Long Beach (www.csulb.edu)

Sponsored Partners
-       Argonne National Lab (www.anl.gov)
-       BioOne (www.bioone.org)
-       Thomson Reuters (www.thomsonreuters.com)

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New Sponsored Partners

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Argonne National Laboratory (www.anl.gov), one of the U.S. Department of 
Energy's oldest and largest national laboratories for science and engineering 
research is located just outside of Chicago, IL.  Argonne is home to some of 
the world's top scientists and engineers as well as several unique, 
world-class user facilities, like Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility 
(ALCF) and the Advanced Photon Source (APS). Argonne actively collaborates 
with industry, academia, and other laboratories to find viable and innovative 
solutions for meeting some of the grand challenges of our time, which include:

     *  plentiful, safe and sustainable energy
     *  a healthy environment
     *  economic competitiveness
     *  a secure nation

The lab employs roughly 2,900 employees, including about 1,000 scientists and 
engineers, three-quarters of whom hold doctoral degrees. Argonne's annual 
operating budget of around $630 million supports upwards of 200 research 
projects.

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BioOne (www.bioone.org) is a sustainable aggregation of bioscience research 
journals focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. 
The product of innovative collaboration among societies, libraries, academe, 
and the private sector, BioOne provides cost-effective access to high-quality 
scientific publications.

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Thomson Reuters (www.thomsonreuters.com) is the world’s leading source of 
intelligent information for businesses and professionals, including 
information and decision support tools for healthcare and information 
professionals, researchers, and scientists. Initially, Thomson Reuters plans 
to federate its Web of Knowledge, which provides researchers, administrators, 
faculty, and students with quick, powerful access to the world's leading 
citation databases. The company also plans to make available EndNote Web, a 
Web-based reference organizer and writing solution, fully integrated with Web 
of Knowledge and EndNote. 

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Dean Woodbeck
Program Manager, InCommon

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