2009-04-06 Supplemental Call

Benn: Draft mission statement/high level vision
Scott: Feature set/Supported Platforms
Eric: Feature set/Support Third Party Apps
Benn/Jonathan: Bring form conversation to next board meeting

Logistics

Time: Monday, April 6, 2009 @ 10:30 am EDT
Conference Bridge: 218-486-7200 #167964

Discuss high level vision
1. CAS "info sheet"
2. Positioning statement, vs I2 middleware, Sun, Oracle, etc

Do we even a need a high level vision? Why?
1. Yes
2. Jasig members, as well as others who've invested in CAS, want to know CAS is sustainable
3. To help people decide which SSO to implement – why use CAS?
We also need "sales" material
Content
1. Mission statement/high level vision/elevator pitch
2. High level roadmap
3. Feature set, technical roadmap
  1. Supported platforms (IDP, SP)
  2. Supported third party apps (out of their box)
    1. Maybe have a page of vendor logos where supported out of the box and is vendor endorsed
    2. Perhaps a separate list of apps that have external modifications or clients and/or aren't vendor endorsed
4. Background info
  1. History
  2. Why is SSO good?
  3. Who is using it? (Need to get permission again)
5. Positioning vs similar products
6. Demos/How Tos
7. Case studies
Form
1. Info sheet
  1. Current features
  2. Next release features (stuff currently under development)
2. Whitepapers
  1. CAS Protocol
  2. SAML Interoperability
  3. Advantage of CAS (WebSSO in general, vs other SSO)
3. Marketing PowerPoint/OpenDoc/PDF
4. Seminars/Webinars/Screencasts
5. Wiki
6. "Packaging" of material to hand out on campus
  1. Easy to configure for local campus (look and feel, server names)
  2. Common how-tos (.ASP clients, etc)
  3. Could be easy to assemble from existing campus material
All material is the responsibility of the Steering Committee
Jonathan can do second level, audience specific editing