InCommon Federation Discussions About Online Student Services

["Ann West" <>]

We met with Patricia Summers, the Vice President of Marketing. Guess she
came back from vacation a bit early.

Ann

> -----Original Message-----
> From: RL 'Bob' Morgan []
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 5:55 PM
> To: InC-Student
> Subject: [InC-Student] meeting with CollegeNet
> 
> 
> David Yeh noticed that the I2/EDUCAUSE CAMP conferences:
> 
>    http://educause.edu/CAMP072
>    http://educause.edu/CAMP073
> 
> on Shibboleth and "scaling secure collaboration" in Portland OR last
week
> were a stone's throw from the offices of CollegeNet, so did an email
intro
> of some of us who were at the conference with the CollegeNet folks.
Ann
> West and I had lunch on Friday June 29 with Emil Izunagbara, their AVP
of
> Business Development and ... (help me Ann, I seem to have lost the
card of
> the woman we met with ...) to talk about opportunities in federation,
> Shib, and InCommon.  (Patricia Summers, who David directed his intro
to,
> was on vacation unfortunately.)
> 
> They were very interested, but since this was an introduction to the
> concepts we didn't have (or expect) any specific followups.  They
> mentioned that their annual conference is coming up this very
> Sunday-Tuesday:
> 
>    http://corp.collegenet.com/2007_user/schedule/
> 
> in the same hotel the CAMPs were in, amusingly enough.  If anyone on
this
> list, or any of their staff, are going to this it might be a good
> opportunity to follow up with interest from the business side.
> 
> Along this line I wrote a draft of an Undergraduate Admissions use
case:
> 
> 
>
https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/InCStudent/Undergraduate+Admissions
> 
> This case was one of the main things we talked to the CollegeNet folks
> about.  Comments on this draft (or edits, anyone on the list can edit
> these pages in the wiki) are welcome.
> 
>   - RL "Bob"