1. Finding Collaborators Worldwide
James Werle, Univ. of Washington,
Jennifer Oxenford, MAGPI/UPENN,
Tim Boundy, JANET,

2. Defining the Need
87 advanced networks worldwide, over 50k Internet2 connected institutions in the US alone
YET - few know how to find collaborators
Solution to date => NREN directors/contacts to find out connectivity status
How to find collaborating partners has been the “Holy Grail” of applications success
Jennifer
i.e., Finding Global Collaborators has been a holy grail
New initiatives around the world to solve this challenge
(K20, Janet, Education.Au, PCATP, CILC, etc)
What are common challenges
Integrating these tools is the new holy grail

3. James Werle Jennifer Oxenford
K20 MUSE
James Werle
Jennifer Oxenford

4. Muse Goals
 Connect people with similar interests around advanced networking applications
Encourage collaboration
Facilitate resource sharing and discovery
Better introduce new communities to advanced networking community and applications
James

5. MyK20 of the Past Create personal profile Submit project description
Search for projects and people
James
History of MyK20, limited functionality
Discuss what it did
About 3 years old, currently has about 75 project descriptions, 1500 personal profiles from around the world.

6. MyK20 Limitations Rapid data obsolescence People needed to find myK20
National in scope - no regional customization available
No real-time communication and limited collaboration functionality
James

7. Ideology of Muse User community driven content
Incorporating best of web 2.0 and social networking ideas (flickr, digg, youtube, myspace, delicious, etc.)
Radical trust of users (a la wikipedia)
Wisdom of the crowd
Tagging - user defined folksonomies to describe content
Jennifer

8. Functionality of Muse
Regional sites sharing and displaying content from same database
Regional sites/users determine what is shared to other regions
Create, manage, share personal profiles and projects
Post news items and events
Search for projects, people
Jennifer

9. Functionality of Muse (con’t)
Tag and comment content
Create and maintain colleagues or “friends”
Leave messages for friends
Use Google API mash-up to geographically display information
Real time chat with friends (phase II)
“Push” content via RSS feeds, , etc.
Create/upload/share resources (.ppt, urls, podcasts, bookmarks, whatever!)
Jennifer

10. Need for regional tools
MAGPI member community wanted regional database
Did not want to compete with national Myk20
Need for robust interoperability between regional and national tools
Realized potential for other regional communities (states, countries, disciplines, whatever!)
Jennifer

11. Simplified Muse Architecture
Internet2 Server
database - mySQL
CMS - drupal
Muse Architecture
James
National MyK20
MAGPI Regional
Your SEGPs regional site
Australia Regional …

12. Technical Support from Internet2
Website Hosting
Wiki environment (for national development team)
Flexible server support and configuration
James

13. Regional site
National site
James
The Muse Reveal

14. National site
Jennifer
The MAGPI regional site

15. Live Demo - People National site
Go here now to create new user profile/acct. and search for others.
National site
Create new user acct.
Features/Ideology Behind New Accounts Key Features
Region is automatically assigned in the registration process
Simplified requirements designed for LCD/ease of use
User defined “default view” (i.e. global or regional)
User defined self-discolsure of contact info (i.e., global or regional only)
Resource sharing (websites, files, etc)

16. Live Demo - Projects National site
Go here now to create, edit, search projects
National site
Search, create, edit project
Features/Ideology Projects
Key Features
Region is automatically assigned in the registration process
Simplified requirements designed for LCD/ease of use
User defined “default view” (i.e. global or regional)
User defined self-disclosure of contact info (i.e., global or regional only)
Resource sharing (websites, files, etc)

17. “Get Started” Guides National site
Discipline-specific introductions to advanced networking teaching and learning applications
4-year colleges
2-year colleges
Public libraries
K-12 schools
Museums
Zoos, Aquaria, Science Centers
National site
GSG’s help the “newbie” to navigate their way around muse and have a more personalized introduction to advanced networking k20 T&L applications.

18. Point out features of GSG
“personalized” tour with a community member - gives a name, face to the guide
2. Specific benefits, implications,project examples and news for that community
3. Tailored stats on number of institutions connected of that particular community
4. Links out to other Muse members in that community and/or projects, tags, news

19. James
Need for organization directory (also a Holy Grail).

20. Developing Muse Distributed team - UW and UPenn
Student programmers = staff turnover
Documentation challenges
Extremely limited funding
James

21. What’s Next? More Bug Testing / Evaluation Beta-Launch (Late-October)
Marketing the service to other potential user groups
Implement Phase 2 features based on user feedback
James

22. How do you get involved? Create an account and help us beta-test
Adopt Muse as a social utility for your community?
Tell us about your organization’s social networking efforts!
Jennifer

23. FAQs - Do I have to have my own regional site?
Nope!
Muse Global K20 site is available for everyone
Jennifer

24. FAQs - Who else are you talking to about this?
CILC
TERENA
education.au
AARNet
JANET

25. JANET Collaborate Tim Boundy Project Manager, JANET Collaborate
Jennifer
Introduce Tim Boundy, Project Manager for JANET Collaborate

26. Challenges Moving Forward/Panel Discussion
Integration of with similar online community efforts internationally Authentication
Multi-linguality
Data protection/privacy
Identity confidence/verification
Effective marketing to practitioners
Social networking site overload!!
All
Discussion of challenges, issues for these initiatives by the panel and the audience

27. Q&A - Thank You
Contact Us:
James Werle, Univ. of Washington
Jennifer Oxenford, MAGPI/UPENN
Tim Boundy, JANET