OpenConext is an open source identity and access management platform developed by SURFnet, the Dutch national research and education network. It provides a centralized hub for managing identity federations, user groups, and single sign-on access to distributed applications and services. OpenConext is currently used as an identity federation hub in the Netherlands and as a collaboration platform and service delivery platform by other national research networks in the UK, Australia, and elsewhere. SURFnet advocates for OpenConext as a way to facilitate collaboration, manage identity interconnects, and provide access to distributed research applications and services.
OpenConext: Authentication & Authorization Infrastructure for Virtual Researc...openconext
EGI Community Forum 2014
Paul van Dijk presented at the EGI Community Forum in Helsinki how OpenConext can be deployed to support and enhance scientific cooperation. Among other things he went into the wishes and requirements of scientific collaboration in the field of authentication and authorization. OpenConext is particularly suitable for centralized management of users of cooperative organizations.
During the 2014 TERENA Networking Conference (TNC2014) in Dublin, SURFnet will provide a workshop on OpenConext on Monday 19/05 (09:00 - 12:00).
Participants can explore the possibilities of OpenConext themselves.
This hands-on workshop introduces you to the concepts and components of OpenConext and its example use cases. In addition participants will install the platform and be able configure the platform with the management tools, connect services or identity providers to explore the potential of the platform yourself. Experts of SURFnet, Jisc and AARnet will be available to assist you and there will plenty of time for all of your questions as well as discussion on functionality, features and more. Join us for an interactive hands-on session and experience OpenConext yourself!
As users or people who are interested in OpenConext you are especially welcome to share your use-cases, knowledge and experiences.
WebRTC is a newly proposed open standard, collection of open source libraries and accompanying network services. How is this technology being leveraged to enable rich collaboration? Originally presented at Interop May 4 2016.
Congresso Sociedade Brasileira de Computação CSBC2016 Porto Alegre (Brazil)
Workshop on Cloud Networks & Cloudscape Brazil
José Luiz Ribeiro Filho, Director of Services and Solutions of the Brazilian National Education and Research Network (RNP), Brazil
Cloud Federation & Open Science Cloud at cross-regional level
OpenConext: Authentication & Authorization Infrastructure for Virtual Researc...openconext
EGI Community Forum 2014
Paul van Dijk presented at the EGI Community Forum in Helsinki how OpenConext can be deployed to support and enhance scientific cooperation. Among other things he went into the wishes and requirements of scientific collaboration in the field of authentication and authorization. OpenConext is particularly suitable for centralized management of users of cooperative organizations.
During the 2014 TERENA Networking Conference (TNC2014) in Dublin, SURFnet will provide a workshop on OpenConext on Monday 19/05 (09:00 - 12:00).
Participants can explore the possibilities of OpenConext themselves.
This hands-on workshop introduces you to the concepts and components of OpenConext and its example use cases. In addition participants will install the platform and be able configure the platform with the management tools, connect services or identity providers to explore the potential of the platform yourself. Experts of SURFnet, Jisc and AARnet will be available to assist you and there will plenty of time for all of your questions as well as discussion on functionality, features and more. Join us for an interactive hands-on session and experience OpenConext yourself!
As users or people who are interested in OpenConext you are especially welcome to share your use-cases, knowledge and experiences.
WebRTC is a newly proposed open standard, collection of open source libraries and accompanying network services. How is this technology being leveraged to enable rich collaboration? Originally presented at Interop May 4 2016.
Congresso Sociedade Brasileira de Computação CSBC2016 Porto Alegre (Brazil)
Workshop on Cloud Networks & Cloudscape Brazil
José Luiz Ribeiro Filho, Director of Services and Solutions of the Brazilian National Education and Research Network (RNP), Brazil
Cloud Federation & Open Science Cloud at cross-regional level
stackconf 2023 | SCS: Buildig Open Source Cloud and Container Infrastructure ...NETWAYS
Linux is everywhere. Open Source has won! It has not. While Open Source components are all over the place, the big IT players use them to build platforms that are not fully open but designed to lock their users in. The question to ask these days is not: “Are you building on top of open source?”, because everyone is. The question should be: “Do you allow others to rebuild your whole platform?” and “Do you allow others to contribute to it and shape its future?” Sounds utopian? Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) tries to do exactly this: Build a network of operators to define common standards together, implement them in a complete, openly developed and fully open source manner and then even collaborate on operating it well — which can be harder than building it. The speaker will discuss the vision behind the the SCS project, how it has build the community and the technology stack, what it has achieved so far and where it will go next.
stackconf 2023 | SCS: Buildig Open Source Cloud and Container Infrastructure ...NETWAYS
Linux is everywhere. Open Source has won! It has not. While Open Source components are all over the place, the big IT players use them to build platforms that are not fully open but designed to lock their users in. The question to ask these days is not: “Are you building on top of open source?”, because everyone is. The question should be: “Do you allow others to rebuild your whole platform?” and “Do you allow others to contribute to it and shape its future?” Sounds utopian? Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) tries to do exactly this: Build a network of operators to define common standards together, implement them in a complete, openly developed and fully open source manner and then even collaborate on operating it well — which can be harder than building it. The speaker will discuss the vision behind the the SCS project, how it has build the community and the technology stack, what it has achieved so far and where it will go next.
European Open Science Cloud: Concept, status and opportunitiesEOSC-hub project
European Open Science Cloud: Concept, status and opportunities.
Presentation given by Gergely Sipos at the International Symposium on Grids and Clouds 2019 event in Taiwan.
FIRE slideshow running on the FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) booth, organized by all FIRE Support Action projects (AmpliFIRE, ceFIMS-CONNECT, CI-FIRE, ECIAO and FUSION) at the Net Futures 2015 (former FIA) event on 25-26 March 2015 in Brussels, Belgium.
More information: http://www.ict-fire.eu.
The Ascent of Open Science and the European Open Science CloudTiziana Ferrari
Open science is becoming more and more part of the daily practice in conducting science. Around the world, researchers are increasingly aware of the value and importance of open science. As scientific research becomes highly data-driven and dependent on computing, scientists are conscious of the growing need to share data, software and infrastructure to reduce wasteful duplication and increase economies of scale. In an ideal world, every step of the research process would be public and transparent – the full methodology and all the tools used, as well as the data, would be accessible to the public and all groups without restriction, enabling reproducibility and refinement by other scientists.
This presentation will show case a number of success stories indicating how federated digital infrastructure, that have been sustained by the member states and the European Commission, have become an indispensable tool to enable collaboration ad sharing.
The European Open Science Cloud was launched by the European Commission in 2016 aiming to (1) increase the ability to exploit research data across scientific disciplines and between the public and private sector, (2) interconnect existing and new digital infrastructures in Europe and (3) support open science.
The presentation showcases how open data, open data analytics and open e-Infrastructures like EGI (https://www.egi.eu/) have been key enables of scientific discoveries from the discovery of gravitational waves with LIGO-VIRGO to drug design with the molecular modelling tools of WeNMR.
EOSC-hub (https://www.eosc-hub.eu/) - the first and the largest of the EOSC implementation projects of the H2020 funding programme, has succeeded in delivering some of the building blocks like the EOSC portal and Marketplace, tools and processes for federating data and services providers, harmonized policies, a federated AAI infrastructure, Competence Centres to support research infrastructures in their complex digital needs, interoperability guidelines and the Early Adopter Programme to provide expert support and service capacity to research projects.
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Keynote given at the NSF Cyberinfrastructure Software and Sustainability Workshop, March 26th-27th 2009, Indianapolis.
Exploration of software sustainability based on experiences from UK.
The Future Internet Research and Experimentation - FIRE - current offer to customers from industry (including SMEs) and research includes access to testbed facilities for the purpose of technology, product and service development and testing, as well as knowledge, methods and tools for experimenters and product and service developers. FIRE’s offer in the next years will transform towards a service-oriented framework where the concept of Experimentation as a Service (EaaS) will be central.
This publication gives an insight into what is real and usable today in FIRE including FIRE success stories and information how to get access to FIRE facilities together with the FIRE project descriptions.
More publications at: http://www.ict-fire.eu/home/publications.html
The Future Internet Research and Experimentation - FIRE - current offer to customers from industry (including SMEs) and research includes access to testbed facilities for the purpose of technology, product and service development and testing, as well as knowledge, methods and tools for experimenters and product and service developers. FIRE’s offer in the next years will transform towards a service-oriented framework where the concept of Experimentation as a Service (EaaS) will be central.
This publication gives an insight into what is real and usable today in FIRE including FIRE success stories and information how to get access to FIRE facilities together with the FIRE project descriptions.
More publications at: http://www.ict-fire.eu/home/publications.html
DI4R 2018 - Ellip: a collaborative workplace for EO Open Scienceterradue
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https://www.digitalinfrastructures.eu/
Topic "Business Models, Sustainability and Policies"
Session "Open Science: Skills and Credits"
ISCTE, Lisbon, Tuesday 9th October 2018
ICT research in the context of European Union
CASE SUMMER SCHOOL ON APPLIED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
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JULY 6-10, 2009, BOZEN/BOLZANO, ITALY
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Inder Gopal
VP System Technology
IBM
ONS2015: http://bit.ly/ons2015sd
ONS Inspire! Webinars: http://bit.ly/oiw-sd
Watch the talk (video) on ONS Content Archives: http://bit.ly/ons-archives-sd
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Quarkus has a vast extension ecosystem and is known for its subsonic and subatomic feature set. Some of these features are not as well known, and some extensions are less talked about, but that does not make them less interesting - quite the opposite.
Come join this talk to see some tips and tricks for using Quarkus and some of the lesser known features, extensions and development techniques.
stackconf 2023 | SCS: Buildig Open Source Cloud and Container Infrastructure ...NETWAYS
Linux is everywhere. Open Source has won! It has not. While Open Source components are all over the place, the big IT players use them to build platforms that are not fully open but designed to lock their users in. The question to ask these days is not: “Are you building on top of open source?”, because everyone is. The question should be: “Do you allow others to rebuild your whole platform?” and “Do you allow others to contribute to it and shape its future?” Sounds utopian? Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) tries to do exactly this: Build a network of operators to define common standards together, implement them in a complete, openly developed and fully open source manner and then even collaborate on operating it well — which can be harder than building it. The speaker will discuss the vision behind the the SCS project, how it has build the community and the technology stack, what it has achieved so far and where it will go next.
stackconf 2023 | SCS: Buildig Open Source Cloud and Container Infrastructure ...NETWAYS
Linux is everywhere. Open Source has won! It has not. While Open Source components are all over the place, the big IT players use them to build platforms that are not fully open but designed to lock their users in. The question to ask these days is not: “Are you building on top of open source?”, because everyone is. The question should be: “Do you allow others to rebuild your whole platform?” and “Do you allow others to contribute to it and shape its future?” Sounds utopian? Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) tries to do exactly this: Build a network of operators to define common standards together, implement them in a complete, openly developed and fully open source manner and then even collaborate on operating it well — which can be harder than building it. The speaker will discuss the vision behind the the SCS project, how it has build the community and the technology stack, what it has achieved so far and where it will go next.
European Open Science Cloud: Concept, status and opportunitiesEOSC-hub project
European Open Science Cloud: Concept, status and opportunities.
Presentation given by Gergely Sipos at the International Symposium on Grids and Clouds 2019 event in Taiwan.
FIRE slideshow running on the FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) booth, organized by all FIRE Support Action projects (AmpliFIRE, ceFIMS-CONNECT, CI-FIRE, ECIAO and FUSION) at the Net Futures 2015 (former FIA) event on 25-26 March 2015 in Brussels, Belgium.
More information: http://www.ict-fire.eu.
The Ascent of Open Science and the European Open Science CloudTiziana Ferrari
Open science is becoming more and more part of the daily practice in conducting science. Around the world, researchers are increasingly aware of the value and importance of open science. As scientific research becomes highly data-driven and dependent on computing, scientists are conscious of the growing need to share data, software and infrastructure to reduce wasteful duplication and increase economies of scale. In an ideal world, every step of the research process would be public and transparent – the full methodology and all the tools used, as well as the data, would be accessible to the public and all groups without restriction, enabling reproducibility and refinement by other scientists.
This presentation will show case a number of success stories indicating how federated digital infrastructure, that have been sustained by the member states and the European Commission, have become an indispensable tool to enable collaboration ad sharing.
The European Open Science Cloud was launched by the European Commission in 2016 aiming to (1) increase the ability to exploit research data across scientific disciplines and between the public and private sector, (2) interconnect existing and new digital infrastructures in Europe and (3) support open science.
The presentation showcases how open data, open data analytics and open e-Infrastructures like EGI (https://www.egi.eu/) have been key enables of scientific discoveries from the discovery of gravitational waves with LIGO-VIRGO to drug design with the molecular modelling tools of WeNMR.
EOSC-hub (https://www.eosc-hub.eu/) - the first and the largest of the EOSC implementation projects of the H2020 funding programme, has succeeded in delivering some of the building blocks like the EOSC portal and Marketplace, tools and processes for federating data and services providers, harmonized policies, a federated AAI infrastructure, Competence Centres to support research infrastructures in their complex digital needs, interoperability guidelines and the Early Adopter Programme to provide expert support and service capacity to research projects.
Cultivating Sustainable Software For ResearchNeil Chue Hong
Keynote given at the NSF Cyberinfrastructure Software and Sustainability Workshop, March 26th-27th 2009, Indianapolis.
Exploration of software sustainability based on experiences from UK.
The Future Internet Research and Experimentation - FIRE - current offer to customers from industry (including SMEs) and research includes access to testbed facilities for the purpose of technology, product and service development and testing, as well as knowledge, methods and tools for experimenters and product and service developers. FIRE’s offer in the next years will transform towards a service-oriented framework where the concept of Experimentation as a Service (EaaS) will be central.
This publication gives an insight into what is real and usable today in FIRE including FIRE success stories and information how to get access to FIRE facilities together with the FIRE project descriptions.
More publications at: http://www.ict-fire.eu/home/publications.html
The Future Internet Research and Experimentation - FIRE - current offer to customers from industry (including SMEs) and research includes access to testbed facilities for the purpose of technology, product and service development and testing, as well as knowledge, methods and tools for experimenters and product and service developers. FIRE’s offer in the next years will transform towards a service-oriented framework where the concept of Experimentation as a Service (EaaS) will be central.
This publication gives an insight into what is real and usable today in FIRE including FIRE success stories and information how to get access to FIRE facilities together with the FIRE project descriptions.
More publications at: http://www.ict-fire.eu/home/publications.html
DI4R 2018 - Ellip: a collaborative workplace for EO Open Scienceterradue
Digital Infrastructures for Research 2018
https://www.digitalinfrastructures.eu/
Topic "Business Models, Sustainability and Policies"
Session "Open Science: Skills and Credits"
ISCTE, Lisbon, Tuesday 9th October 2018
ICT research in the context of European Union
CASE SUMMER SCHOOL ON APPLIED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
APPLIED SOFTWARE PROCESS MANAGEMENT AND TESTING
JULY 6-10, 2009, BOZEN/BOLZANO, ITALY
CNCF general introduction to beginners at openstack meetup Pune & Bangalore February 2018. Covers broadly the activities and structure of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
Inder Gopal
VP System Technology
IBM
ONS2015: http://bit.ly/ons2015sd
ONS Inspire! Webinars: http://bit.ly/oiw-sd
Watch the talk (video) on ONS Content Archives: http://bit.ly/ons-archives-sd
Quarkus Hidden and Forbidden ExtensionsMax Andersen
Quarkus has a vast extension ecosystem and is known for its subsonic and subatomic feature set. Some of these features are not as well known, and some extensions are less talked about, but that does not make them less interesting - quite the opposite.
Come join this talk to see some tips and tricks for using Quarkus and some of the lesser known features, extensions and development techniques.
In 2015, I used to write extensions for Joomla, WordPress, phpBB3, etc and I ...Juraj Vysvader
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These analyses were used to augment the existing checkers; these augmented checkers found 132 new NULL pointer bugs and 1308 unnecessary NULL tests in Linux 4.4.0-rc5, PostgreSQL 8.3.9, and Apache httpd 2.2.18.
- Accepted in ASPLOS ‘17, Xi’an, China.
- Featured in the tutorial, Systemized Program Analyses: A Big Data Perspective on Static Analysis Scalability, ASPLOS ‘17.
- Invited for presentation at SoCal PLS ‘16.
- Invited for poster presentation at PLDI SRC ‘16.
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2. SURFnet: the Dutch NREN
• SURFnet is the Dutch National Research & Education
Network (NREN)
– Services, innovation, knowledge
– Not for profit
– Task organisation of Stichting SURF = ICT collaboration of higher
education & research
• A small operation serving a large community:
– 85 employees
– 160 connected institutions
– 1 million end-users
– Turnover 35 million Euro; 1/3 innovation subsidies
SURFnet - We make innovation work 1
4. OpenConext Vision (2009)
SURFnet - We make innovation work 3
Create a coherent infrastructure of loosely coupled
collaborative services, based on (emerging) Open
Standards and enabled by access federations
5. OpenConext Building blocks
SURFnet - We make innovation work 4
Identity Federations, SAML and attributes
Create and manage Groups
OpenSocial (VOOT) API and oAuth
A piece of middleware (a hub or proxy) that allows centrally managing
interconnects and facilitates application integration
6. OpenConext Use cases
SURFnet - We make innovation work 5
• Collaboration Platform
• Service Delivery Platform
• Identity Federation hub
United Kingdom – JISCconext (JISC)
A Collabortion platform around email groups, will support about 1
million endusers
Australia (AARnet)
A service delivery for AARnet services in Australia and New Zealand
The Netherlands – SURFconext (SURFnet)
The middleware platform for the national hub-n-spoke Identity
Federation
7. JISCconext
SURFnet - We make innovation work 6
https://tnc2014.terena.org/core/presentation/15
8. AARNet
SURFnet - We make innovation work 7
https://tnc2014.terena.org/core/presentation/15
9. SURFconext
SURFnet - We make innovation work 8
A next generation collaboration
infrastructure that creates new
opportunities to collaborate online
based on a combination of applications
from different providers.
Researchers, educators and students wish to select the tools that best
fit their online collaboration needs. Institutions and Collaborative
Organizations struggle with the integration of self-hosted services
with commercial cloud services. Service providers seek for ways to
make their services easily accessible for users in higher research
and education.
SURFconext is the platform to facilitate these needs.
10. Collaboration Platform
SURFnet - We make innovation work 9
• Federated Authentication
• Centralized Groups
• Portals
Federated Authentication
Leverages secure, trusted authentication and Single Sign on for
Campus and Cloud applications
Centralized groups
Used for Adhoc collaborations and institutional groups
Portals
Bring together distributed services to provide end-users with a
coherent set of services
11. Service Delivery Platform
SURFnet - We make innovation work 10
• Federated Authentication
• Attribute based Authorization
• National Procurement & Licencing
Create Trusted Services
By combining Identity Federation, privacy and data protection
regulations and license deal in one contract between Service
Provider and (all) Dutch institutions
15. Collaborative Organisations
SURFnet - We make innovation work 14
• Groups
• Distributes Services
• Attributes, roles and rights
Groups are core to collaboration
Any collaboration is based on groups. In R&E these groups are
dynamic and international;
Distributed Services
COs collaborate around distributes services. Managing and
maintaining many SP IdP interconnections is tough;
Attributes, roles and rights
Roles and rights are based on Attributes. COs need very different
attributes as compared to the attributes provided by the IdPs.
16. Example Cases
SURFnet - We make innovation work 15
• WeNMR
• Virtual Campus Hub
WeNMR
Bringing together research teams in the structural biology and life
science area. The project offers a platform integrating services and
streamlining the computational approaches necessary for data
analysis and structural modelling.
Virtual Campus Hub
Create a virtual education portal for a joint programme, consisting
of applications made available by the partners involved in that
programme, and to which all relevant users have seamless access.
17. WeNMR
SURFnet - We make innovation work 16
• Connect HPC to federation
• Federated Portal
21. Components of Virtual Campus Hub
1. Inventory of the most important ICT barriers for international
collaboration in education.
2. Demo platform to prove that some of these barriers can be removed:
Easy access to partners’ applications (FIM)
More efficient and more flexible setup of online activities or online
participation in regular activities (UC hub)
Easier collaboration with industry (non-HE IdPs)
3. Vision on how to apply these insights and experiences in concrete
collaboration initiatives (e.g. international joint programs)
22. Demo portal (proof of concept)
Functionality:
• Access with your own account
to partners’ applications
• Create international groups
(virtual organizations)
• Single sign-on access through
simple website
(https://vch.tue.nl)
12-06-2013
25. Results
• Connections realized for several identity providers (IdPs)
and applications (SPs).
• Cloud service (DTU itslearning) connected to VCH
• Scalability of concept shown (by adding extra IdPs)
• Knowledge and experience with respect to using Géant-
eduGAIN
2412-06-2013
26. OpenConext Building blocks
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Identity Federations, SAML and attributes
Create and manage Groups
OpenSocial (VOOT) API and Oauth
A piece of middleware (a hub or proxy) that allows centrally managing
interconnects and facilitates application integration
28. Groups
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Any collaboration involves groups, either ‘AdHoc’, or ‘Institutional’
OpenConext facilitates the creation of groups of federated users
Adhoc Groups are managed centrally (Teams)
Any acceptable user can become a group 'admin‘
Invite any other users
Build groups from other groups
Institutional Groups (Campus or VO) can be provided by external
sources
Groups provide context for applications (but applications decide on
AuthZ!)
Groups feature (only) 3 roles (admin, collabmin, member)
Group + VO Registry -> VO IdP
29. Attributes
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Attribute & Group information can be provided at logon
Many scenarios require out of band exchange
VOOT (http://openvoot.org/voot-2.0.html) REST API, based on OpenSocial
oAuth2 & oAuth 1 (deprecated)
Draft SCIM implementation expected in 2014
SAML attribute query support on the way (both AA and client)
30. OpenConext – The platform (2009)
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Do not start from Scratch
Add (a lot of) Glue
SAML Groups Management
Shibboleth SP
(Shibboleth Consortium)
Grouper
(Internet2)
Janus
(WAYF)
SimpleSAMLphp SP
(Feide.no)
Shindig
(Apache)
Corto
(WAYF)
Teams
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Do not start from Scratch
Add (a lot of) Glue and even more Glue
SAML Groups Management
Shibboleth SP
(Shibboleth Consortium)
Grouper
(Internet2)
Janus
(SURFnet)
SimpleSAMLphp SP
(Feide.no)
Shindig
(Apache)
Group Proxy, API & APIS
Manage
Corto
(WAYF/SURFnet)
SSP libraries
Teams (v2) Log handling & Statistics
OpenConext VM
33. OpenConext – Meshing a Hub
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Source: Neil Witheridge, AARNet
34. How OpenConext helps
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• Groups
• Distributed Services
• Attributes, roles and rights
Manage and share Groups
OpenConext provides a centralized group provider and allows
linking external group providers;
Centrally manage services and identity stores
SP and IdP connections can be manage centrally, including Access
and Attribute Release Policies;
Use Attributes, roles and rights for Authorization
Manage, transform and filter attributes and group (membership)
both at logon as well as when queried out-of-band.
35. OpenConext VM
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• Run your own OpenConext platform
• CentOS/Redhat, 10 min setup
• For demo, development and playing around
https://github.com/OpenConext/OpenConext-vm
36. More information
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• SURFconext
• OpenConext
SURFconext
http://www.surf.nl/en/services-and-products/surfconext/index.html
OpenConext
All of OpenConext is hosted at https://github.com/openconext
OpenConext support tools and compatible services are available at
https://github.com/openconextapps
Community Website, including documentation
https://www.openconext.org
Support
Mailinglists: openconext-users@list.surfnet.nl and openconext-dev@list.surfnet.nl