Today, the official begging letters asking for funding towards the Shibboleth Consortium started to trickle out. Full (probably unnecessary) disclosure – with one of my many different hats on I act as the Shibboleth Consortium Manager so this is not a disinterested post…but I have had many different and interesting conversations with people around the … Read more
‘Business’ is often seen as a dirty word when talking about open solutions – whether that be open access, open data or for me open source software. It’s amazing that people always seem to think that the two things don’t go together…but of course for anything to survive in any practical sense, someone has to … Read more
As part of my work for the Shibboleth Consortium, I have spent a long time over the last couple of months immersed in the world of foundations managing open-source software looking for lessons learnt and possible patterns / home for a future Shibboleth organization. It’s been an interesting experience, predominantly from the point of view … Read more
When I was just a little girl, TV introduced me to the concept of the ‘civil servant’ through teams on quiz shows like Master Team and Busman’s Holiday. The civil servant teams were always made up of stereotypes – dull, gray men in suits. I remember thinking that it must be the worstest, dullest job … Read more
Just back from the very hectic FAM10 conference and the RAPTOR project board meeting in Cardiff. RAPTOR is looking great by the way – have I mentioned that before? 🙂 It’s now time for me to start putting some serious head time in to the future of Shibboleth and where the Shibboleth Consortium takes the … Read more