NMI-EDIT Outreach:The first five years

Topics for Today

NMI-EDIT background Activities Outcomes Resources

Background National Science Foundation’s

Middleware Initiative (NMI) Funded NMI-EDIT to build interoperable identity

and access management infrastructure

NMI – Enterprise Desktop Integration Technologies (EDIT) Consortium Internet2 content and development lead EDUCAUSE outreach and education lead

Strategic Direction

Overall technical direction set by MACEMiddleware Architecture Committee for Education (MACE)

Campus IT architects and representatives from Grids, national, and international communities

Development: Tools, Practices

Enterprise Directories eduPerson schema, practice papers, schema

checking service, Roadmap Authentication

WebISOs Roadmap

Authorization Signet Privilege Management System Grouper Group Toolkit

Federated IdM Shibboleth

Outreach Goals

Prime Directives: 1. Help campuses deploy interoperable identity and

access management infrastructures to achieve their goals

2. Do no harm (…no Star Fleet personnel may interfere with the healthy development of alien life and culture.)

Methods Used1. Listen2. Interpret

(Repeat)

Listen and…

Primary Audience – management, project management, technical staff Special Categories

Small Schools State Systems

Secondary Audience – campus stakeholders Registrars Business Officers (and Librarians and Academic Medical Centers)

Interpretation MethodPrimary IT Audience

Small Schools

State HE Systems Registrars CFOS

Awareness

Presentations X X X X X

Journal Articles X X X X X

Press Releases X X X

Education, Training, and Content Delivery

CAMP Workshops X X

EDUCAUSE Annual/Regional & Internet2 Member Meeting Workshops

X X X

Other Workshops X X X

Deployment Roadmaps X X X

NMI-EDIT Web Site X X X X X

E-Mail List X X X

Case Studies X X X

CDs X X X

The Numbers 46 workshops

15 CAMPS and 31 other 2,770 total attendance 1,640 distinct participants 610 institutions/organizations

517 US 93 International

700 CDs 60+ awareness presentations

Hundreds of campus collaborators 1 (2?) roadmaps

English and Portuguese 1+ website 17 case studies 6 articles in AACRAO, NACUBO, and EDUCAUSE publications 1 mini-grant program…

Extending the Reach

Outreach/education scaling experiment State Higher-ed Systems and Network Providers Modest funding Leverage existing education/outreach channels to

spread the word about IdM and NMI-EDIT Consortium

Four awards University of Alaska System University of Texas System California State University System Great Plains Network Consortium

ETR: They Played Together Well

Jumpstarted… Texas higher-ed federation

Federated wireless access, benefits and training Great Plains research collaboration

Bioinformatics data and applications Sourced IdM for resource-strapped schools Medical publications/applications shared

among Houston medical centers Other implementations beyond ETR

participants

ETR: They Played Together Well

Benefited 332,000 faculty, staff, and students

Touched 43 campuses, health centers, and state network providers

Funded outreach to MSI schools in Alaska, CA, TX and Great Plains

Supported three master’s theses and article in Scalable Computing

Resources

www.nmi-edit.org www.educause.edu/idm middleware.internet2.edu

Ann West awest at educause.edu awest at internet2.edu