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Title: InCommon Update: December 2011

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Featured Events

January 11, 2012 (3 pm ET)
IAM Online - Using Federated Identity for NSF- and NIH-Funded Cyberinfrastructure—Researchers and scientists at your campus may participate in one or more cyberinfrastructure projects supported by NSF or NIH (or be interested in doing so). What are the policy and technical issues you face in helping your faculty and researchers seamlessly connect with such projects? How can federated identity help and, more importantly, what are the issues and barriers involved? Join us to hear the answers.

January 19, 2012 (2 pm ET)
New Research & Scholarship Category Webinar (2 pm ET)

Hear about the new category of service providers and how you can take advantage of this service. We'll use Adobe Connect for slide sharing and listen-only audio. We'll have a phone bridge if you wish to participate in the Q/A.

Adobe Connect: http://internet2.adobeconnect.com/inc-category/

Phone bridge:
734-615-7474 (preferred)
866-411-0013 (toll-free in US and Canada)
Access code: 0117582#

Need Planning, Implementation, Consulting Help?

Need help with your federated IdM planning or implementation? Or some consulting for Shibboleth? The InCommon Affiliate Program could help — connecting higher education institutions and their federating partners with providers of federation services.

January 2012

In This Issue

• InCommon Launches New Research & Scholarship SP Category
• New Certificate Service Subscribers
• New Participants in December

InCommon Launches New Research & Scholarship SP Category

InCommon is launching an innovative program—a new category of service providers called Research & Scholarship. This will allow identity providers to release a minimal common set of attributes to all service providers in the category, simplifying and streamlining user access and reducing administrative overhead. InCommon will host a webinar on Thursday, January 19, 2012, at 2 p.m. ET, to provide details.

New Certificate Service Subscribers

Welcome to new InCommon Certificate Service subscribers: Colby College, Georgia Tech, Joliet Junior College, Kansas State University, Samford University, Western State College of Colorado. There are 146 subscribers to the certificate service.

New Participants in December

We welcome these new participants to the InCommon community. As of the end of December, InCommon has 355 participants.

Higher Education

• Western State College of Colorado (www.western.edu)

Sponsored Partners

• WEPA, Inc (www.wepanow.com)
  The WEPA™ proprietary software platform utilizes a “cloud printing” environment across an established network of wireless touch-screen printing kiosks. The company provides a turn-key wireless kiosk printing system to higher education that includes service and support and enables users to print from any location to a network of wireless touch-screen printing kiosks.

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