CIIT 2015 - MARnet Campus Best Practice Workshop

Campus Best Practice (CBP), part of the GÉANT project funded by the European Union, aims to address key challenges for European campus networks. The CBP Team does this by organising working groups and providing an evolving and to-the-point set of best practice documents (BPDs) for the community. Dissemination of results on a European-wide level is a key objective. The working method involves each NREN organising a number of working groups that deal with campus issues in different technical areas. Participants from universities are invited to take part in the working groups, which work to propose recommendations in best-practice documents. The working groups are led by the NREN and technical experts from universities within the country participate in the groups. Current challenges and experiences are shared and common best practices are discussed, iterated and finally agreed upon. (For more information see: ​http://www.geant.net/Network/Campus-Best-Practice/Pages/Home.aspx)

The ​Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, from the Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia is organizing the traditional yearly conference, the 12th International Conference on Informatics and Information Technologies (CIIT 2015 - ​http://ciit.finki.ukim.mk). The target group of the conference are mainly researchers, scientists, professors and professionals from Macedonia, working in IT and related fields. The conference has an international character, with a wider presence and an international committee, and the official language of the conference is English.

During this conference, the MARnet Campus Best Practice Task Group is organizing a dissemination workshop, focused on the delivery of the final results of their involvement in the GEANT GN3+ Project CBP Task. The workshop will include presentations of the GN3+ Project itself, discussion of current results of the CBP task process and produced documents by the MK task group. A discussion of future work and possible best-practice documents that are of wider interest in Macedonian campuses is also planned.

We invite all members of NOC and Campus IT Management from all universities in Macedonia, and all interested conference visitors to take part in the workshop and possibly attend the conference.

Agenda

Expected dates of the workshop are either 23.4 (Thursday) or 24.4.2015 (Friday). Please come back and check for more info by 7.4.2015.

Preliminary agenda of the workshop, please note that the agenda is still under revision:

• Workshop welcome (Representative from MARNet)
• Campus Best Practice - Overview (Jari)
• Campus Best Practice - Experience in Finland (Janne)
• MARNet involvement in the GN3+ Campus Best Practice task (Vangel Ajanovski)
• Presentations of CBP documents from MARNet team in GN3+
  • Access control and monitoring for campus computer labs (Vangel Ajanovski)
  • Implementation and monitoring of eduroam infrastructure using FortiGate wireless controllers (Anastas Mishev or Vladislav Bidikov)
  • Integration of federated identity management with Microsoft Office 365 (Boro Jakimovski or Vasko Sazdovski)
  • Cloud implementation using OpenNebula (Boro Jakimovski or Vasko Sazdovski)
• Open Discussion:
  • Round the table introduction of all participants and involvement in university campuses
  • Possible topics for exteding the CBP documents with practices from other campuses
  • Areas of future collaboration among campuses in Macedonia regarding CBP
  • Possible further topics of best practice documents of general interest

Workshop registration and information

All information regarding workshop and conference registration will be published before 7.4.2015.

For additional workshop information, registration and other details please contact:

• ​Vangel Ajanovski

Conference Programme and Details

• Check the official conference website: ​http://ciit.finki.ukim.mk