News and information about InCommon Academy offerings

[Erin Murtha <>]

 The InCommon Academy will kick off 2021 by offering virtual training sessions for each of the four InCommon Trusted Access Components. Later in the year, we will offer the third annual BaseCAMP, our signature CAMP and Advance CAMP meetings, and another round of the Collaboration Success Program (CSP) - completing a learning and networking paradise for our friends in Identity and Access Management (IAM).

 

Training Opportunities

The software training workshops are developed by community members and taught by the software developers and implementers. Each takes place half days over the course of a week and cover installing, configuring, and getting started. Training sessions are a blend of synchronous and asynchronous learning, ensuring you get the engagement and help you need. For more information about each training session, and to register, please use the links to the appropriate software component below. Here’s the schedule for the first half of 2021. We’ll announce the fall lineup later this spring.

 

• February 8-12, 2021 - Grouper
  Grouper offers management of institutional and personal groups, roles, and permissions for use by project managers, departments, institutions, and end users.
• February 22-26, 2021 - Shibboleth
  Shibboleth provides single sign-on capabilities for local, distributed, and cloud services
• March 22-26, 2021 - COmanage
  COmanage is an identity registry with flexible enrollment and lifecycle management capabilities. It can be used as a central person registry, a guest management system, or a collaboration hub for scholarly collaborations.
• May 11-14, 2021 - midPoint
  midPoint, powered by Evolveum, is a general-purpose identity management and governance system that can synchronize and reconcile among multiple systems of record and sources of identity, as well as provision and deprovision user accounts and groups into services. 
• June 14-18, 2021 - Shibboleth

 

Go CAMPing

BaseCAMP will take place the week of July 12, 2021, providing an introduction to InCommon and the basics of identity and access management. This workshop is for those new to identity management, new to InCommon, or both. BaseCAMP includes:

• An introduction to the basics of identity and access management  —  whether you manage identities, make resources available to those from other organizations, or both.
• An introduction to the InCommon Federation, the U.S. identity federation serving education and research.
• An overview and demonstrations of the community-developed identity and access management suite, the InCommon Trusted Access Platform, and the role it can play in your IAM system.

The annual CAMP and ACAMP meetings will take place the week of October 4. CAMP will again include track sessions based on community proposals, and ACAMP is our annual unconference that helps move the global trust and identity activities forward.

Collaborate your way to (Project) Success

Now that you’ve gotten some InCommon exposure, consider joining the Collaboration Success Program (CSP). The CSP provides an opportunity to join forces with peer organizations and community experts to prepare, prototype and put your IAM projects in motion.

 

A few of the program perks include: 

• Access to InCommon community gatherings
• Subscription bundle to training and events
• Priority access to developers and experts, providing tailored recommendations for your projects

This nine-month program will kick off in September. If you’re interested in learning more about the program, please let us know before July 31, 2021.

 

 

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Erin Murtha

Education and Consulting Programs Manager

InCommon