Second draft of ppt for JACSoN Board 18/12/2012

1. JACSoN Project Board
18th December 2012

2. AGENDA for the day
1 Introductions
2 Review of situation and objectives
3 Progress to date with demonstration
4 Review of options
5 Development – and Service
6 Outline planning
7 AOB

3. Review of situation and objectives
• JISCM@IL Contractual situation: operating
envionment
• Re-siting of JISCM@il; timetable
• Re-engineering of a tired interface
• The chance to interface user-selected
collaboration tools
• Use of international Open Source options

4. Progress to date
• Collaboration with RENATER
– Use of Sympa for mail management
• Collaboration with SURFnet
– Use of SURFconext to interface collaboration
products
• Use of JISCM@il for list information
• Creation of a demonstration piece….

5. Demonstration
The demonstration has been put together to
show :-
• Access to a group collaboration portal from institutional log-in
with user selection from all groups belonged to
• The appearance of a group portal offering
• A group home page
• Collaboration utilities
• Collaboration products agreed as standard by the group

6. Review of Options
• Simple transfer and maintenance of JISCM@il
in a new contract – somewhere
• Potential use of Sympa
• Re-development to become JISC Conext using
– SURFconext
– additional developments covering
• access management
• Portal construction
• interface of collaboration products

7. Development – and Service
Decisions……………….Decisions………………….
• Create a demonstrator product; show what can
be done – but leave further action to users
• Create a real product using the best use/case
scenarios we can find (esp. with research
communities- the major JISCM@il users)
• As above – and
– Build a more future-proofed, apatable system
– Actually set out to provide a service – with operation,
support and on-going development

8. Outline Planning
• Engage with the research community through
JISC Innovation to
– Establish their use/case
– Build a supportive group
– Add them to Project JACSoN governance
• More proof of concept work with some
preferred collaborative tools
• Review progress by (?) Easter ?