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InCommon Catalyst Program Overview

Update

May 3, 2021

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InCommon Learning and Collaboration

What’s this all about? Will it work for me?

How can I learn the details?

How can I get started?

What are others doing?

How can I get support?

How can I influence the work?

Learn the basics of Federation and related software.�

Get one-on-one expert answers to your questions.�

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Learn about each of the InCommon Trusted Access Platform components (Shibboleth, Grouper, COmanage, midPoint).

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Refine your plan with help from experts and peers.

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Get help to get it done.

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Finish with education credit.�

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Ask community experts questions through traditional methods.

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Join a working group.

�Meet the Catalysts.

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Find out how you can build on your work by sharing and comparing notes with others.

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Work with your peers to guide direction of the services and software.

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BaseCAMP Software Collaboration Open Multi-Channel CAMP Advance CAMP� Training Success Program Support Model

The power behind InCommon Software, Services, and Communities

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Support Options: Adopters Need Both

  • Community-sourced support
    • Audience:
      • Organization supporting their own implementations
    • Tools:
      • Slack/email for anyone
      • Slack for CSP alumni
  • Catalyst offerings
    • Audience:
      • Organizations wishing to outsource integration, planning, 24X7 support, hosting
    • Tools:
      • InCommon Catalysts

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Community Benefits from the Catalyst Program

We want to work with honest folks who thrive on win-win and care about the research and education mission.

We want companies that know their stuff and our stuff.

We want companies that offer good business models and do good work.

We want options for our options.

We want support in ways we don’t even know about yet.

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What is the (emerging) Catalyst Program?

Ecosystem of companies and organizations committed to serving the InCommon Community by

  • offering products and services that
  • support research and education
  • trust and identity standards and use cases.

How do we know?

  • Participate in the community for at least a year prior to joining and contribute to community venues
  • Self-attest to supporting community standards for specific programs

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Who are Catalysts? Current candidates are:

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What has to line up?

  • Collaboration among the companies, Internet2 and support organizations
  • Focus by I2 on the core technologies/services
  • Evolution of the program
  • Redefinition of “vendors” as community members that contribute to the whole
  • Assistance to help companies connect in the “right” way

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Next Steps

Phase 1

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Phase 2

  • Review phase 1

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Next Steps: May 2021

Phase 1

Completed

  • MOU
  • Website presence

What’s next?

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Phase 2

  • Review, update, repeat