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JA-SIG Newsletter - June 2008
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5 Notes from the Blogosphere
5.1 Sun's Open Source Blog - "The Aquarium"
5.2 Jason Shao's Blog
5.3 Unicon Blogs
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1 Welcome
1.1 Editor's Message
We have a lot of exciting content this month, including important CAS and uPortal announcements, very interesting news items, and an upcoming events calendar. The latter part of the newsletter highlights a few notes and posts "from the blogosphere".
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Mark Rogers (University of Manitoba), Editor, JA-SIG Newsletter
2 Project Updates
2.1 Central Authentication Service (CAS)
2.1.1 CAS Server
The CAS Server team is currently working on the next minor release (3.2.2) of the CAS Server. The current stable version, 3.2.1, is available on the CAS Downloads page at: http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/downloads/index.html
2.1.2 CAS Clients (Java and PHP)
Java
The CAS Client for Java 3.1.3 is now available and includes a number of bug fixes and new features. This new client can be found at the CAS Downloads link here: http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/downloads/index.html or obtained directly from the JA-SIG Maven2 Repository at http://developer.ja-sig.org/maven2/org/jasig/cas/cas-client/ .
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PHP
phpCAS 1.0.0 RC1 is now available at http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASC/phpCAS . Special thanks to Julien Marchal (Single Sign Out) and Brett Bieber (PEAR packaging).
2.1.3 CAS Roadmap and Vision
Our CAS Vision and Roadmap is now up and under construction by the community. The development of this roadmap is being driven by community members, who are encouraged to add, edit, and comment on it.
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We're looking for open discussion on the future of CAS on the CAS developers mailing list.
2.1.4 CAS Deployers - Stand up and be counted!
If you have implemented CAS at your institution and have not yet added your name to the growing list of CAS Deployers, please do so. A list of CAS Deployers can be found here: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CAS/CAS+Deployers
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Contributed by:
Scott Battaglia (Rutgers University), Lead Developer, JA-SIG Central Authentication Service
2.2 uPortal
2.2.1 Announcing uPortal 3.0.1 - General Audience Release
JA-SIG is proud to announce the General Audience release of uPortal 3.0.1. uPortal 3.0.1 GA is the result feedback from the significant interest and use of the 3.0.0 GA release.
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Contributed by:
Eric Dalquist (University of Wisconsin-Madison), uPortal 3 Release Engineer
3 Community News
3.1 uPortal 3 Adoption Efforts
This is a reminder that we have a wiki page for those who are investigating uPortal 3.0 adoption: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/vQXP. We have 17 institutions represented there right now, and know that many others are talking about it and working on pilots this summer. You are invited to add your school to the list and tell us where you're at. For those of you who already have entries, please return there and bring us up to date on recent developments!
Thanks,
Jonathan Markow
3.2 uPortal Steering Committee - Update
The uPortal steering committee has been discussing and acting on followup on the successful St. Paul JA-SIG conference. One specific direction is that of positioning uPortal to participate in Google Summer of Code next summer and to institute an approach of appropriately-sized uPortal-related projects with mentors and mentees. Another specific near-term strategy for uPortal and the committee is to keep the project engaged with the growing set of schools immediately exploring uPortal 3 in order to foster near-term uPortal 3 adoption momentum. The steering committee is also eager to see the JASIG website update project becoming more active, giving the uPortal website update requirements another look.
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Jim Helwig
uPortal Steering Committee
3.3 ESUP-Portail: Collaboration in Information Technology with Morocco
During the past two years, the French CPU (Conference of Presidents from all the Universities) has developed an important program of collaboration in information technology with the Universities in Morocco.
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Alain Mayeur
L'Université de Valenciennes
3.4 Unicon's Cooperative Support Program Contributes Over 40 uPortal Enhancements to Open Source Community
Unicon's Cooperative Support Program allows participating institutions to "gain all of the benefits of open source software designed specifically for higher education plus top-quality, professional support from a commercial vendor." But the product of these support engagements can also benefit the greater community, as outlined in a news article on the Unicon web site where they have enumerated over forty enhancements to uPortal, all contributed back to the community.
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Unicon's Andrew Petro outlines the differences between JA-SIG Membership and the Cooperative Support Program http://www.unicon.net/blog/3/jasig_and_coop_support_membership
4 Upcoming Events
4.1 JA-SIG UK Meeting (June 25, 2008)
The next JA-SIG UK meeting will take place on June 25 and be hosted by Leeds University. For more details, consult the meeting web link below.
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Contributed by: Robert Sherratt (University of Hull, UK)
4.2 The JA-SIG Fall 2008 Unconference is Coming!
Dates:
October 6-8, 2008
October 9-10, developer meetings and optional post-conference activities
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The Fall 2008 JA-SIG Unconference Organizers
4.3 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
4.4 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
5 Notes from the Blogosphere
5.1 Sun's Open Source Blog - "The Aquarium"
"A blog that has nothing to do with fish ... and everything to do with Open Source Java EE, XML, SOA and more ..." http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/
5.2 Jason Shao's Blog
In his latest entry, Jason reflects on some of the community activity and industry trends, gleaned partly from his experience at the Portlets2008 conference. Read the full post here: http://jay.shao.org/ . Jason is the Director of Open Source Solutions at the CampusEAI Consortium.
5.3 Unicon Blogs
The Unicon bloggers are always busy providing interesting content, including an interesting post by Cris Holdorph on the final release of the JSR-286 specification. Read that post and more at: http://www.unicon.net/blogs
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