[Bodington-developers] bod and GX take-up - news

[Adam M. <ada...@co...>]

I thought I'd post this news here rather than in 2 separate bits!

Saw Mark 'Stubbsy' Stubbs yesterday who said that they are thinking of using
Bod as the authN engine for their TRIX project (sp?). I can't find anything
about this project probably because I don't know how to spell it!

I also harangued Francis Lowry from Nottingham Trent telling him that they
should use GuanXi as their shibboleth solution. This will be for the
Nottingham universities Passport
http://www.cityofnottinghampassport.com/what_is.htm. I will point him to the
GX list later on today - I rather foolishly promised him that we (ie you)
would help him if he got stuck trying to use GX. I think that they were
already looking at GuanXi but my friendly approach made him more confident.

I also badgered Serge Ravet (chief exec of Eifel - Euro institute for
e-learning - http://www.eife-l.org/eifel) about GuanXi (and of course gave
him a t-shirt). He was particularly interested and asked when we were going
to look at machine to machine shibbing. He sounds like an influential guy
and we could definitely gain some friends there. 

Do we have an estimate of when this work will start? I guess it's part of
ASK work; it would be nice to tell him our timeline.  He suggested that the
GuanXi team attend the next planned plugfest in cambs in October
http://www.eife-l.org/news/pressrelease/ep2005/view?searchterm=plugfest this
would be good publicity. I have more details here if you want.

adam

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