[Concordia] Thanks to all for a successful workshop!

[roger sullivan]

Let me add my thanks to all for the hard work that went into preparing for and executing this event.  

Congratulations on a job well done!

I received several *very* complimentary comments about the professionalism with which the event was conducted as well as the comprehensive content.

I attended the OSIS steering committee meeting afterwards where we had a very productive dialogue on opportunities for inter-group collaboration.  While the Concordia and OSIS interops at RSA were not at all technically overlapping in their purpose or content, the market impression was less clear.  So, while acknowledging that Concordia is clearly the venue for gathering deployer use-case requirements, we agreed that Concordia and OSIS would seek ways to collaborate on future technical interops where it made sense to do so and avoid redundant and/or overlapping technical work.

At the very least, an early synch-up between the two communities will assure that our marketing messages are clear and coordinated with one another.  This will also create opportunities for complimentary and synergistic messaging in the broader Identity Community.  This will help to bring more clarity of purpose and lessen the confusion that we all agreed has the potential to delay market growth.

Thanks and congratulations to everyone on a successful event.

Here's to building on the momentum!

Roger S.

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I can't thank you all enough -- your hard work on defining, building solutions for, and testing the scenarios was proven to be extremely valuable today.  Solution providers and solution users alike really made this stuff come alive.  I want to especially thank Paul Madsen, who, along with the interop participants, contributed a *ton* to getting these scenarios in shape.  And Dervla O'Reily, who moved mountains to get us proper signage, keyboards, and all things logistical.  And Mike J., who made the explanation of four nearly- identical flow diagrams not only understandable but something approaching fun.  And Bob Haar, who helped keep us honest.  And Danny Mollan, ditto.  And... lots of other folks I'm forgetting right now, but thank you anyway. :-)

I started a notes page on the wiki for today's workshop.  Haven't filled it with any actual notes yet, but at least I uploaded the slides, which a number of attendees requested.  More to come soon.

http://projectconcordia.org/index.php/Concordia_workshop_RSA_2008_notes
http://projectconcordia.org/images/7/76/Concordia-Apr2008-wiki.pdf

A special request for those who presented their own slides today: Would you be willing to upload these to the wiki?  (Or to have me do it, if you don't want to bother figuring out how?)  Thanks in advance!  And for anyone who took notes from the event, please consider adding those to the notes page.

Talk to y'all about next steps on April 22,

	Eve

Eve Maler                                         +1 425 947 4522
Principal Engineer                            eve.maler @ sun.com
Business Alliances group                    Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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