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About Signet

Why is Signet Open Source?

The Signet product is an open-source project, owing its success to the initiative of those contributing to its development. Signet is adapted from the Stanford Authority Manager, and Signet's design has evolved since mid-2004 until the present – and will continue to adapt to the needs of the Higher Ed community.

While Signet has progressed to a level adequate for production use, the project will continue to benefit from contributions of the users. Any changes and improvements will be a direct result of collaborations between the user-base and the developers. Your continued support of Signet will further enhance the efforts to date.

Thanks!

The Signet team would like to thank all who have contributed to the development of Signet; in particular, the (MACE) Signet Working Group members and those at Stanford University who have contributed their time, expertise, and enthusiasm for this project: Lynn McRae (Signet Working Group chair, project lead), Andy Cohen, Minh Nguyen, and Jennifer Vine; also Jessica Bibbee, Nate Klingenstein, Renee Frost, Ann West, and Steve Olshansky from Internet2.

Development of this software was supported with funding from Internet2, Stanford University, and the NSF Middleware Initiative (NSF 02-028, Grant No. OCI-0330626, OCI-0721896). Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).