1. Feide Connect
Next generation service platform for
educational users in Norway.
andreas.solberg@uninett.no
Andreas Åkre Solberg
Dublin, May 2014

2. Feide Connect
research and development activity
The presented work is from an operational prototype
varies from experimental to more mature
a production-level service is in planning
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The gap between
services’ needs and supporting middleware infrastructure
is increasing

4. What we have today
does not properly support mobile
does not properly support three-tier,
services that interacts with services
(data in other adm.domains)
Complex setup (SAML)
Complex cross-federation setup
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Today
everything is about
APIs

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SAML is great for SSO
- not everything else

7. Lets build…

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12. Developer
Dashboard

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Groups

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Groups
Manage
ad-hoc groups
using
groups and peoplesearch
APIs

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ActivityStreams

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etherpad demo
Non-intrusive etherpad plugin
no modifications
No external dependencies whatsoever!
Not even simplesamlphp ;)
Uses Feide Connect for
authentication and groups.
Setup with auto-configure

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etherpad demo

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Not solved yet
Still much implementations to do
Contracts and legal work
Payment model
Smooth logout experience with SLO, OAuth,
web, applications and mobile.

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…some more stuff

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App Store
in the works…

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Frontend protocols
service to service
service to platform
Javascript window.postMessage
«Federated» iframes with isPassive=true

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Adobe Connect Widget demo
Can be used «anywhere»!
Just copy and paste a short JS sniplet.
Can easily be setup to adopt surrounding group
environment, to set «current group».
Fully controlled authorization and access
controll for Adobe Connect. No pre-
configuration whatsover for endusers.

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Autoconfigure demo
Simplify registration of service providers
Can be prepacked with popular applications;
in.e. wordpress (plugin demoed)
Wordpress plugin with no external
dependencies.

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feed Widget demo
Widget push shared news or any «activity» to
activity stream
Another widget presents «news» within a group
in a collaboration service (Liferay)

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Feed Widget
Shows an aggregated feed of activities for the current
selected group across all collaboration tools.
Share widget
Can be easily integrated anywhere. Will share a link to the current web page
to the activity stream for the current user in a selected group context.

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That’s it.
Thanks for attending this presentation!
andreas@uninett.no