01
Mar
2024
Learning from the Past While Looking to the Future
InCommon 2023 Year in Review Available Now The past is kind enough to give you lessons. The present is kind enough to give you opportunities. The future is kind enough to give you both. —Matshona Dhliwayo Zimbabwean-born and Canadian-based philosopher Matshona Dhliwayo’s keen observation about the interrelationship between the past,…
20
Feb
2024
Happy Birthday to Us! InCommon Turns 20 in May
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes By Kevin Morooney, vice president of Trust and Identity and NET+, Internet2 For most of us, our perspective on birthdays changes over time and with life experiences. When I was a boy, say 10 years old or so,…
27
Nov
2023
Keeping the Music Playing: IAM Today and Tomorrow
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Friedrich Nietzsche: “Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” Ka’ala, @alohakaala: “Autumn teaches us the beauty of letting go. Growth requires release—it’s what the trees do.” Ernest Hemingway: “You expected to be…
21
Jul
2023
InCommon for All Seasons, But Especially Christmas in July
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes I am fortunate to live in a place where I experience all four seasons. It is summer where I live. I’ve come to enjoy anticipating the changes in the upcoming season and reflecting on the opportunities the past…
13
Apr
2023
Our Year of Getting on the Road Again
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes 2022 InCommon Accomplishments Report Available Now “On the road again/Just can’t wait to get on the road again/The life I love is making music with my friends.”—Willie Nelson This iconic musical refrain aptly sums up our 2022. When…
22
Mar
2023
Paper Airplanes and TechEX23
The Call for Proposals for CAMP is open until April 7. Please consider submitting a proposal for a talk, tutorial, or working meeting! I love music. Everything about it. Listening to it, making it (I’m infinitely better at listening than making – infinitely), listening and making it together, watching…
19
Dec
2022
No Such Thing as TMI: Too Much Internet2 – What I Saw and Heard at TechEX22
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes As I sit down to write this, even after being home for a week, I find myself still in TechEX recuperation mode. I had all of the best intentions for the plane ride home from Denver, when thoughts…
24
Oct
2022
Getting the Band Back Together at TechEX
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes As I’ve navigated the fall of 2022, I’m struck that it has an exciting familiarity to it. “Exciting” and “familiarity” don’t often go together, so I got to wondering why I was feeling excited about something that wasn’t new…
22
Jun
2022
Learn. Share. Belong. Building Better Connections at BaseCAMP 2022
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Kevin Morooney Learn. Share. Belong. This has become the theme of InCommon BaseCAMP since we started it four years ago. And it makes sense because these verbs have been the cornerstone for over 20…