1. Use case name – Intermediate report
Alazar Alemayehu– EthERNet - Ethiopia
EthERNet e-Research Hackfest – Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)

2. Architecture of the use case Objectives and milestones
Outline
Scientific problem
Architecture of the use case
Objectives and milestones
Achievements so far
Any problems encountered
Plans till the end of the hackfest

3. Scientific problem recap ()
Researchers needs communication platform
EthERNet needs social network

4. Architecture of the use case and orchestration of e-Infrastructure services
The discourse forum open source platform uses MVC architecture based on Ruby On Rails frames work

5. Objectives and milestones
On First Milestone to build
Front end design and authentication
On second Milestone to finish the all the social network

6. Get familiar with the discourse installation and usage as admin
Achievements so far
Able to clone the Discourse social network on local machine after Dr. Roberto’s suggestion
Get familiar with the discourse installation and usage as admin

7. Any problems encountered
Unavailability of server

8. Plans till the end of the hackfest
Integration problem with federated authentication
Customized Forum on EthERNet server

9. Thank you!
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