Yesterday I gave a talk at the (fortunately) local BCNET/Netera Converging Minds Conference. BCNet builds networks for the BC research and education community, and the conference was aimed at the administrators, deans, and IT managers who need to know what tools their researchers and students would find useful. The conference agenda had talks on lots of subjects relevant to that audience, ranging from high performance computing, networking, and security and identity management to advanced media and collaboration.
My talk was about Liberty specifications, of course. Since I was slotted for a 1.5 hour talk, I asked Alex Acton from the Sun Vancouver office to help out. I presented the slides, Alex drove the demos, we got lots of great questions, went 15 minutes overtime and still only got through 29 of the 41 slides. It was probably more useful to the audience that way, of course! I like having a small enough audience that more free-form talking and listening sessions are viable. Here are the slides (in PDF format) for posterity, including those I didn’t get a chance to present.
I had lots of help on creating these from Eve, I used demos from Pat and Hubert (Hubert also created good slides for the recent Liberty webcast that I could reuse), Scott Cantor sent me slide decks on Shibboleth to crib information from, and most of the deployment information comes from Yvonne Wilson’s excellent talk at XML 2005. I also used some information from the Liberty technology tutorial. Thanks, everyone!