OpenConext - Japanese delegation - 28 October 2013

OpenConext

“Open for Collaboration”

Build your own Open Source Collaboration Platform

Frans Ward 
SURFnet Advanced Services 
Utrecht, 28 October 2013

OpenConext - Open for Collaboration - 28 October 2013, Utrecht, Netherlands

About me...

Hello,  
my name is
Frans


...and my employer

I work at
SURFnet

,

nl.linkedin.com/in/fransward/ 


About SURFnet

Development and exploitation of the
Dutch National Network for  
Higher Education and Research
- innovative ICT platforms & services
- Over 14,000 km dark ﬁber 

!
By and for the Dutch Higher Education
and Research community
- 180+ connected organisations,  
serving 1 million users
- Not for proﬁt, 86 employees
- In business since 1988  
25th Anniversary!


Dutch Academic and Research Landscape
180+ connected  
organisations,  
serving 1 million 
users

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14 Research Universities (250k students)
42 Universities of applied sciences (425k students)
8 University hospitals and tertiary medical teaching
hospitals (STZs)
Research institutes and comparable institutions 
(NWO, KNAW, TNO, Novay)
Company R&D departments
National Library of the Netherlands
Other institutions ﬁnanced by the Dutch Ministry of
Education, Culture and Science

http://ﬂickriver.com/photos/25228175@N08/


Under the SURF umbrella

ICT & Education policy making

National Research & Education Network

Commercial ICT Products & Services


Scientiﬁc Computing & Storage

Shared Professional and Educational Services

State of the art Network infrastructure

The Global Lambda Integrated Facility 
(GLIF)


State of the art Collaboration infrastructure


OpenConext in 3 minutes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUpn568NSl0


From mix and match of loose tools…

(from an NREN’s standpoint)


…to a collaboration environment



Features and Components



OpenConext history & Service Oﬀering



Open as in Open Source

Open Source is....


Open & public from the start...

https://github.com/openconextapps

(regarding an open source
innovation project...)

https://github.com/openconext


Open & public from the start...


(regarding an open source
innovation project...)

https://wiki.surfnet.nl/display/OpenConext/Installation+Instructions


Open as in Open Source

Open Source is....

“The realisation of an open
source project  
does not guarantee  
the
creation of a community”


Community website


New Community website


OpenConext Open Source Demo’s


https://www.demo.openconext.org/


Open Source Challenges


https://www.demo.openconext.org/


Lifecycle of Innovation - SURFnet style

Technology
Assessments

Proof of  
Concept

Customer
requirements

Impact
Analysis

Innovation phase

Service
Shutdown

Service
Production

Operational phase


Service
Development

Lifecycle of Innovation - SURFnet style
and now with open source development added...
and with some open source development added...
Technology
Assessments

Proof of  
Concept

Customer
requirements

Impact
Analysis

Innovation phase

R.I.P

Service
Production

Service
Shutdown

Software
Maintenance

Software
Shutdown? 

Operational phase


Service
Development
Software
Development

Open Source Challenges

...in relation to an innovation project based lifecycle

Service shutdown when services becomes
generally available in the public or commercial
domain is typical behaviour for an NREN 

But…

‣

What to do with the open source software
that was developed for this service?

‣

What do you do with the intellectual property
rights when you decide not to invest in this
software anymore?


OpenConext Collaboration

Goals:!
• Boosting the full potential of the
OpenConext open source ecosystem!
• Learn from different use cases!
• Exchange ideas!
• Promotion!
• Documentation and Use Cases!
• Create an active community!
• What about governance?
Collaboration Partners


OpenConext Showcases
!

AARNet’s Services Plan: Shop-front
 

• AARNet’s “above-the-net” service delivery strategy
– Collaborating via Global NREN CEO Forum on delivery of global services
– Network Centric Services: potentially including Video Conferencing, SIP-based Real-Time Comm’s, Mobility,
Customer Info services, “Cloud” services. Data already – Cloudstor+  

• AARNet interested in all services behind a single shop-front. (OCþ )
– Shop-front provides for sharing information between services, also branding, cross-marketing, etc.  
• By their nature these services should be “group-aware” or more generally “authorisation rights
aware”. (OCþ)  
• E.g. ‘one-click’ Video Conference scheduling for an entire team, SIP-based comms registration
for team-based comms, limiting access to commercially sensitive info via customer info service.



JISC Conext:  
A Group Collaboration Platform!
!
! Built upon our existing national academic mailing!
list service (JISCMail)!

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! Extended functionality with up-to-date tools:!
– Shared Document Creation!
– Cloud Storage!
– Wikis and Blogs!
– Voice and Video Communication!
– Calendaring and meeting organisation!
– Surveys!
– Data storage and Virtual Research Environment!

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! Modular and extensible!

!
! Using best-of-breed 3rd party services




Progress so far: Applications 
! Wordpress!
– Developed group-overseer Wordpress plugin!
to deal with group contexts and allow multiple!
blogs per group!

! Etherpad!
! Github Gists!
! Twitter search!
! JISCMail via RSS!
! Mailing lists with Sympa!
– Working with Surf's VOOT-enabled version!

! Rave Portal



Introducing MediaMosa...


MediaMosa is based on a Service Oriented Architecture

User

Media Frontend

REST calls in
XML

MediaMosa SiteBuilder

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Common base for  
MediaMosa is Drupal 7


Media Backend

REST calls in
XML

MediaMosa

Can haz API? YES!

REST based webservices
over 185, for services like... 

• Play video
• Authentication
• Authorization (Play

restriction)
• Upload (PUT, POST, FTP)
• Transcoding
• Media Management: media
ﬁles, assets and collections
• Search
• Jobs
• Metadata and OAI/PMH
• Notiﬁcation
• Logging and Statistics
• Stills
• ....

http://mediamosa.org/api


Community Website & Online Demo

http://mediamosa.org
http://demo.mediamosa.org


A growing community


Community of developers
Community of users


Founded: the MediaMosa Foundation


Our solution!

Make it  
sustainable!
“An open source project
that can support itself is
sustainable open source”


OpenConext Directions and Q&A

WWW
http://openconext.org
!
Online Open Source Tools Demo
http://www.demo.openconext.org
!
Source Code
https://github.com/openconext
!
Slideshare
http://www.slideshare.net/openconext


next
OpenCO

OpenConext

OpenConext

For a  
sustainable future...

Frans.Ward@surfnet.nl

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