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[Mohacsi Janos <mohacsi AT niif.hu>]

Dear Stefan,
	How can I initiate to get hungarian institutions listed on 
client downloader page?
        Best Regards,

Janos Mohacsi
Head of HBONE+ project
Network Engineer, Director Network and Multimedia
NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY
Co-chair of Hungarian IPv6 Forum
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On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, Stefan Winter wrote:

> Hello,
>
> it's been a while since we've released software version 1.0 and the big
> news announcements about eduroam CAT went out, saying it will be online
> "soon".
>
> We've spent the time integrating the software into eduroam Operation
> Team's infrastructure, which led to two small maintenance releases with
> minor code changes.
>
> As a result, I'm happy to announce that version 1.0.2 is now available
> on the download servers [1] and that
>
> eduroam CAT is now officially in production!
>
> The URL for the production service instance is https://cat.eduroam.org
>
> An IdP administrator manual for eduroam CAT can be found at
> https://confluence.terena.org/x/fgBYAg
>
> All institution data which was previously entered on
> cat-test.eduroam.org has been migrated to the production instance; so
> all your data is preserved.
>
> We have disabled all profiles though (i.e. removed the
> "Production-ready" attribute from all profiles). This is because we were
> unsure how many of the created institutions and profiles on cat-test
> were actually meant serious, vs. meant for testing purposes only.
>
> You can easily re-enable your profiles by logging in as an admin,
> editing the profile, and re-adding the attribute "Production-Ready". As
> soon as that is done, your installers will appear on the end-user
> download page again. If you have multiple profiles in your IdP you need
> to re-enable each of them.
>
> eduroam CAT is now available in 15 languages. If you are curious about
> further changes between 1.0 and 1.0.2, please consult the Changes file
> in the source download.
>
> The cat-test.eduroam.org instance will continue to exist, but its main
> purpose is to run unreleased code for the "next" version and to act as a
> "sandbox" for administrators.
> You should not use it anymore, unless expressly told to to test new code
> and bug fixes. From now on, institution data entered on cat-test will
> not be transferred to production any more.
>
> A word on Microsoft Windows installers: the Microsoft tools
> "SmartScreen" and "Internet Explorer 9+" have a very "interesting"
> mechanism to determine whether a download is safe or harmful [2]. It
> goes like this: if the signature certificate for a download has been
> used "often" before, the download is probably not harmful. If the
> certificate is "new", the download "may be harmful". Think of this
> algorithm as you like :-). Various security packages for windows also
> have their own algorithms. It may mean though that for the first few
> days of operation, Windows users may get a spurious warning about a "not
> commonly downloaded" program. We obviously can't change Microsoft's or
> security vendors' thinking, so Windows installer downloads will be
> slightly more inconvenient in the first days.
>
> Apart from that, all installers have been thoroughly tested, and we are
> confident that eduroam CAT will be a useful addition to eduroam
> Operations from now on.
>
> NB: this is the last release announcement which adds 
> mobility AT terena.org
> and GN3-specific mailing lists as a recipient; people interested in
> using and/or developing for eduroam CAT should subscribe to
> cat-users AT geant.net
>  [3] and 
> cat-devel AT geant.net
>  [4], respectively.
> Subscription is NOT restricted to GEANT personnel.
>
> Greetings, and have a lot of fun with eduroam CAT!
>
> Stefan Winter
>
> [1]
> http://downloads.geant.net/repository/public/Roaming/eduroam%20CAT?artifactId=Roaming
>
> [2]
> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/smartscreen-filter-frequently-asked-questions-ie9
>
> [3] http://mail.geant.net/mailman/listinfo/cat-users
>
> [4] http://mail.geant.net/mailman/listinfo/cat-devel
>
> --
> Stefan WINTER
> Ingenieur de Recherche
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>
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