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1 Upcoming Events
1.1 Registration Now Open for the JA-SIG Fall 2008 Unconference
REGISTER NOW FOR THE JA-SIG FALL 2008 UNCONFERENCE at UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
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See you at the JA-SIG Unconference,
The Fall 2008 Unconference Organizers
1.2 Fall 2008 Internet2 Member Meeting (October 13-16, 2008)
Dates: October 13-16, 2008
Place: New Orleans, Louisiana (Sheraton New Orleans Hotel)
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Source: http://events.internet2.edu/2008/fall-mm/calls.cfm
1.3 EDUCAUSE 2008 - Orlando, Florida (October 28-31, 2008)
"Mark your calendar for the premier information technology event in higher education, EDUCAUSE 2008, October 28-31 in Orlando, Florida. The program 'Interaction, Ideas, Inspiration' will include preconference seminars; track and poster sessions; small group meetings; and corporate exhibits, presentations, and workshops. ... "
Source: EDUCAUSE 2008 Web Site - http://www.educause.edu/e08
2 JA-SIG Project Updates
2.1 Central Authentication Service (CAS)
2.1.1 CAS 4 Roadmap Planning (Call for Participation)
We have assembled a draft agenda for the roadmap planning call which is included below for your information. If you are interested in participating but have not yet let me know, it is not too late to do so.
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Benn Oshrin (Rutgers University)
2.1.2 CAS 3.2.1.1 Release and CAS 3.3-RC2 Release
We've released a minor point release of version 3.2.1.1 which addresses an opportunity to inject HTML into the logout page via the url parameter. You can't hijack CAS sessions or anything with it, but you can create some really interesting HTML pages which could trick your users if they're not paying attention. If you've based your logout page at your local institution off of the "example default" pages then you should update your logout page (just to be safe we also updated the "confirm view". Thanks to Romain Bourgue for identifying this. There are no other changes in the 3.2.1.1 release.
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Contributed by:
Scott Battaglia (Rutgers University), Lead Developer, JA-SIG Central Authentication Service
2.2 uPortal
2.2.1 uPortal Roadmap and Vision
We are currently working on a "Roadmap and Vision" similar to the one being developed by the CAS team. Our efforts to date can be found at: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/zRjP
The Roadmap includes information on current versions of uPortal (2.6 and 3.0) and yet-to-be-released versions (3.1 and 3.2).
3 Around JA-SIG
3.1 Community Profile - Chris Myers and RJ Podeschi (Millikin University)
I met Chris Myers and RJ Podeschi from Millikin University at the Portals 2008 Conference at Gettysburg College in June. Millikin is an independent, four-year university in Decatur, Illinois with approximately 2,500 students in traditional and non-traditional undergraduate and Masters degree programs.
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RJ Podeschi (rpodeschi at mail dot Millikin dot edu) is the Sr. Database Administrator in the Information Technology department at Millikin, as well as a Millikin alum. RJ supports Oracle databases, the Banner administrative system, Touchnet Payment Gateway, and Resource 25 campus scheduling system for Millikin. He is active in his church on the administrative council, and enjoys running, playing golf, and cooking.
3.2 140 Participants Attend Sixth ESUP-Portail Conference in Paris
One hundred and forty participants recently attended the "ESUP-Days" conference in Paris (June 30, 2008) organized by the ESUP-Portail consortium.
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