Use case name – Intermediate report Alazar Alemayehu– EthERNet - Ethiopia (alazar.1994@gmail.com) EthERNet e-Research Hackfest – Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)

Architecture of the use case Objectives and milestones Outline Scientific problem Architecture of the use case Objectives and milestones Achievements so far Any problems encountered Plans till the end of the hackfest

Scientific problem recap () Researchers needs communication platform EthERNet needs social network

Architecture of the use case and orchestration of e-Infrastructure services The discourse forum open source platform uses MVC architecture based on Ruby On Rails frames work

Objectives and milestones On First Milestone to build Front end design and authentication On second Milestone to finish the all the social network

Get familiar with the discourse installation and usage as admin Achievements so far Able to clone the Discourse social network on local machine after Dr. Roberto’s suggestion Get familiar with the discourse installation and usage as admin

Any problems encountered Unavailability of server

Plans till the end of the hackfest Integration problem with federated authentication Customized Forum on EthERNet server

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