CIFER -- Community Identity Framework for Education and Research

The CIFER project goal is to make radical improvements in higher education Identity and Access Management (IAM) capability, ease of integration, and affordability. CIFER is an agile, comprehensive, federation- and cloud-ready IAM solution suite delivered by and for the higher education community. See the CIFER Prospectus for details.

community@ciferproject.org is the mailing list for all things CIFER. Click on the link to subscribe. If you simply wish to send an inquiry to the CIFER team, please send your email to info (at) ciferproject (dot) org.

The CIFER work teams welcome participation from all interested parties. You will find details on getting involved on the team wiki pages at https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/cifer/CIFER+Home

Upcoming Events

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(2-7 June 2013): The upcoming Apereo Conference (formerly Jasig/Sakai) in San Diego will feature two half-day seminars on CIFER-associated projects. In addition, CIFER content will be found in at least eighteen (!) other conference sessions.

CIFER Events Log

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(20 May 2013): Several leading CIFER figures presented about the current state and future plans for the initiative during the May 20 InCommon Virtual Working Group sessions. See the program page for more background.
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(12 March 2013): Benn Oshrin, a leading designer and developer for CIFER and for the Internet2 project, COmanage, will give a presentation at the NERCOMP Annual Conference (http://www.educause.edu/nercomp-annual-conference/online-agenda) entitled "CIFER: Open-Source Identity Management".
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(11 March 2013): Leo Richard Fernig (The University of British Columbia) and Piet Niederhausen (Georgetown University) authored an EDUCAUSE ECAR Study, " Is Our Software Designed for Change? Successes and Challenges in Using Service Oriented Architecture". CIFER is mentioned favorably in the section "Implications for Higher Education".
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(23 November 2012): Bill Thompson of Unicon, a CIFER commercial affiliate, gave a presentation to the Brazilian National Network for Teaching and Research (http://www.rnp.br/) entitled "Exploring Identity and Access Management: Open Source Approach". CIFER was featured in his slides (pdf).
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(14 November 2012): Dedra Chamberlin and Keith Hazelton presented an IAM Online session on CIFER. A pdf version of the slides are available at the InCommon IAM Online site. An archived version of the complete webinar (adobe connect format) is now available as well.
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(16 October 2012): Bill Yock, U Washington and Kuali Board member, gave a presentation (ppt) at Kuali Days last week. It is also available as a Tegrity presentation online: CIFER Overview for Prospective Collaborators
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(15 October 2012): A template letter of intent is now available for institutions that would like to make a concrete statement of support toward the CIFER initiative. Multiple modes of support are available. (doc, pdf)
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(4 October 2012): Dedra Chamberlin from UC Berkeley and UC SF and Keith Hazelton from UW-Madison gave a CIFER presentation at the Internet2 Fall Member Meeting in Philadelphia (pdf)

Keith Hazelton: CIFER Initiative: Where Things Stand, Where We're Going
Dedra Chamberlin: Identity Registries: CIFER work with UC Berkeley and UC SF
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