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 MACE  Middleware 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 Used 1.Listen 2.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 Method Primary IT Audience Small Schools State HE SystemsRegistrarsCFOS Awareness PresentationsXXXXX Journal ArticlesXXXXX Press ReleasesXXX Education, Training, and Content Delivery CAMP WorkshopsXX EDUCAUSE Annual/Regional & Internet2 Member Meeting Workshops XXX Other WorkshopsXXX Deployment RoadmapsXXX NMI-EDIT Web SiteXXXXX ListXXX Case StudiesXXX CDsXXX

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