Higgins Project Charter

Name
Higgins Project Working Group

Purpose
The primary purpose of this working group is to support the efforts of the Higgins project. Higgins is an open source Internet identity framework designed to integrate identity, profile, and social relationship information across multiple sites, applications, and devices. Higgins is not a protocol, it is software infrastructure to support a consistent user experience that works with all popular digital identity protocols, including WS-Trust, OpenID, SAML, XDI, LDAP, and so on.

Principles

 * The Higgins Working Group will function according to the Identity Commons Principles
 * See Purpose And Principles.

Practices
The Higgins project operates under the practices of the Eclipse Foundation. We have a developer mailing list, hold weekly developer calls, and periodic face-to-face meeting. See the Higgins Projectwebsite for more details.

Requirements of Participation and How to Join

 * This working goup is open to anyone working on, using or furthering the adoption of Higgins.
 * See the Eclipse Foundation for information on participation.

Licenses and/or Restrictions on Usage of Work Product

 * The Higgins open source project operates as a project of the Eclipse Foundation.
 * All work is done under the Eclipse Public License (EPL)

Current Deliverables and Milestones

 * Higgins High-level Project Plan

Current Meeting Schedule

 * Higgins has weekly developers calls and holds periodic face-to-face meetings.
 * See the Higgins Project website and developers-list for details.

Current Membership

 * Higgins is an open source project of the Eclipse Foundation. Participation is open to all.
 * Mary Ruddy and Paul Trevithick are the project co-leads.
 * See Higgins team-leaders for more details.

Current Stewards Council Representative and Alternate

 * Mary Ruddy (Eclipse Higgins project, SocialPhysics)
 * Paul Trevithick (Eclipse Higgins project, SocialPhysics)

Current Links

 * Higgins Project

History

 * 2007 Q4 Report Higgins
 * 2008 Q1 Report Higgins

Approved by the Stewards Council on February 8, 2008.