Unfortunately just metaphorical BEER at the moment I’m afraid in the form of the BEER project. BEER (I’m sure we will have a more grownup name when it is operational!) is a bit of a confusing concept if you don’t spend all your time thinking about access management metadata exchange like us enthusiasts (read weirdos) … Read more
After a lot of soul searching with regards to the current funding cuts, I have decided that it will be appropriate to go ahead with FAM10 this year with a real focus on practical benefits for librarians and developers. This decision was based on: The excellent feedback we received for FAM09; The fact that I … Read more
I’ve spent a lot of time recently asking people if they would be interested in extending the scope of the Terena Server Certificate Service within the UK. Currently, JANET are offering straight server certs and are now looking in to wilcard certs. The final part of the story is personal certs. The standard answers i … Read more
We kick off a mamouth day on federations with David Simonsen talking about the place for federation operators. He uses the telephone as a metaphor – we used to need to talk to an operator before connecting to other people via phone. This is very similar to the role currently played by federations. It immediately … Read more