October 2012
Virginia Tech Certified Bronze and Silver
Virginia Tech is the first university in the country to become certified for the Bronze and Silver profiles of the InCommon Assurance Program. The profiles describe sets of identity provider operator requirements for registering individuals, issuing credentials, and managing related identity management information.
November 1 Online Forum: Goals and Priorities of the InCommon Technical Advisory Committee
The InCommon TAC (Technical Advisory Committee) will hold an interactive online forum on Thursday, Nov. 1, at 2 pm ET (we'll use Adobe Connect and a phone bridge). The TAC will seek community input on its proposed goals and priorities. The TAC held an in-person forum at the recent Internet2 Member Meeting; slides and notes from that meeting are available.
VivánTech Joins Affiliate Program
VivánTech, a premier developer of enterprise grade, open-source administrative software, has become an InCommon Affiliate. VivánTech offers strategic consulting, software-related services, and project management to the higher education community. The company is an active member of the Kuali community, having worked on Kuali projects since 2007.
IAM at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference
Going to the annual EDUCAUSE Conference in Denver? Rodney Petersen of EDUCAUSE has put together a list of sessions related to identity management, including a pre-conference seminar focused on the InCommon Assurance Program (Bronze and Silver).
Certificate Service Reaches 200 Subscribers
The InCommon Certificiate Service has enrolled its 200th subscriber--the University of Maine System. Welcome to these other new InCommon Certificate Service subscribers, as well.
- Creighton University
- Franklin University
- Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library
- Lorain County Community College
- Rowan Cabarrus Community College
- University of Kentucky
- University of Maine System
- University of Miami
- Western Oregon University
New Participants in September
As of mid-October, InCommon has 462 participants. We welcome these new participants to the InCommon community.
Higher Education
Research Organization
Sponsored Partners
New Sponsored Partners
OrgSync provides online communities to create a more connected campus. The Company’s comprehensive solution set is designed specifically to meet the needs of administrators, departments, programs, and organizations on campus. OrgSync centralizes all the tools you need into one platform allowing you to go paperless, manage calendars and event planning, track hours and attendance, maintain accurate websites, conduct anonymous elections, store unlimited amounts of information, and much more. Its solutions help each functional area of an institution operate more efficiently, improve communication and collaboration, lower operating costs through reduction of paper, printing, and other related expenses, and generate reports on data collected for annual assessments and accreditation.
And information from a recent new sponsored partner:
Longsight supports open source software for higher education through hosting, customization and expert professional services. Longsight clients benefit from flexibility, no vendor lock-in, extraordinary support and cost savings using Sakai (learning management system), Drupal (content management and portals) and DSpace (institutional repositories). Longsight recently introduced vLAB, a cloud-based service providing low-cost, high-reliability virtual alternatives to computer labs based on the Apache Virtual Computing Lab project. Integration with modern identity and authentication services are included in our hosted services.
