Technical

Service improvement

(Niels) Deploy Inacademia backend into eduGAIN (support CoCo, can we also support Sirtifi?)
(Niels) Improve GUIs (layout, styling, language support)
(Niels) Improve client registration
- describe procedure to add new client
- automate deployment of newly registered clients to pilot platform
(Niels) Start design of registration portal for new client, including contractual/financial requirements
(Niels) Create plugin for inacademia for common OSS webshop products (magento, others)
(Niels) Investigate value of plugins for common content platforms like Wordpress, Drupal, Confluence wiki

(Niels) Start on writing a plan how to move InAcademia into PROD
- How to deal with distributed nature of InAcademia irt GEANT T2?

HP wil write up a draft contract. This will be reviewed by legal rep.
GEANT as a legal entity
Under Dutch law?
Recycle existing SURFmarket, SURFconext contract?
Approach: Write high level contract based on mixing parts of federation contract and SURFmarket procurement contract (HP)

Action Item:

(HP/Tangui) Develop our proposition in terms of price and value based on current CBA. InAcademia proposition to online retailers

Promotion work:

Online:

(HP) Improve the website to perform wel in SEO result. Identify major key words. Aim at reaching page two in Google.
(Geant - who?) -> To provide Logo's
(Geant) -> to share stock foto for the website
(All) Provide textual input for the InAcademia website (online retailers onboarding etc.)
(HP) To select and install a proper wordpress theme.
(Niels) To create a general E-mail address for prospect online retailers (SP's) to contact us, add Tangui and HP to lists
(Niels) Ad Piwik statistics to the website
(All) Generate referral trafic by linking to InAcademia from all participating NREN's and redirect retailers to the service

Action items:

Email marketing

Should we have our own mailing list where people can subscribe or do we piggy-bag on existing mailing from Geant and NREN's?

Direct Sales

Call upon prospect webshops and other online retailers.

(Niels) To provide HP with the list of interested parties (warm prospects)
(HP) To meet prospects and convince them to connect to InAcademia
Assign "hunting" tasks to project participants to reach out to local online retailers.
(All) Manage progres in connecting online retailers to InAcademia in this list

Action Item:

Create 1 pager Product brief for online retailers based on the existing text
Create 1 pager Product brief for Federations and Institutions based on the existing text

Work out how we will do billing - How, What, who
- (Niels) Start working on contract between InAcademia and SP