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Bring Your Unique Expertise to InCommon Advisory Committees
InCommon seeks enthusiastic volunteers to serve on its advisory committees. We invite your nominations for membership, including self-nominations. The window for nominations closes on Friday, October 1, 2023, and new terms start in January 2024.
It’s easy to submit a nomination for yourself or a colleague; complete the Advisory Committee nomination form.
Serving on InCommon committees is an excellent way to contribute to the community, broaden your professional network, and hone leadership skills.
These committees are seeking new members:
- InCommon Steering Committee
- InCommon Technical Advisory Committee (TAC)
- Community Trust and Assurance Board (CTAB)
- Community Architecture Committee for Trust and Identity (CACTI)
- eduroam Advisory Committee (eAC)
For more information about these groups, refer to these descriptions or visit www.incommon.org/community/leadership.
Please note that the time commitment for serving on InCommon Advisory Committees varies, but in general, you can plan on 24 hours per year.
The Value in Volunteering
Take it from your peers. InCommon Advisory Committee members do great things:
“The InCommon community is something special. It is inclusive and collaborative, makes hard work fun, and imparts deep knowledge of trust and identity. Being a member of an InCommon Advisory Committee is to be highly sought after.”
— Janemarie Duh, Identity Architect, Lafayette College (currently at the University of Delaware)
“Volunteering with InCommon working and advisory groups has really helped me to grow, both personally and professionally. If you’d told me 12 years ago that I’d be chairing the TAC, I’d have said you were crazy. The challenge helps me to grow in leadership, learn lots of really useful technical bits, and feel the excitement of contributing to an organization that helps amazing people and amazing institutions do amazing things. I’ve learned so much about myself and about participating and leading. I’ve also had a chance to give back to something so much bigger than any individual or even any participating organization.”
— Keith Wessel, Principal Identity and Access Management Specialist, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“I really benefited from the exposure to the identity management (IDM) needs and concerns of other organizations and sectors of higher ed. I learned about a lot of new tools and resources, which helped me provide better service to the research community, and I met a lot of interesting people during the process.”
— Josh Drake, Cybersec Working at Indiana University for Cybersecurity Research
“I’ve been able to work with great people from other institutions who usually have better ideas than I do – at least until I make them mine too. Working with others in InCommon is a welcome shift away from break-fix and other pressing and mundane day-to-day work and keeps my perspective appropriately focused on fundamentals and longer term goals.”
— David Bantz, IAM – University of Alaska
Get Involved Now
We hope that you will consider joining one of our advisory groups to help us continue to make a positive impact on the community. Submit a nomination.
If you have any questions about the nomination process, please contact the committee contacts listed or Ann West, InCommon Executive Director, at awest@internet2.edu.
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Our Valued Volunteers: Q&A with Keith Wessel, Principal Identity and Access Management Specialist – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Our Valued Volunteers: 5 Questions for Josh Drake
Our Valued Volunteers: 5 Questions for David Bantz, IAM – University of Alaska