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JASIG Newsletter - December 2008
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1 Upcoming Events
1.1 JASIG Spring Conference - Dallas, Texas (March 1-4, 2009)
1.2 EclipseCon 2009 - Santa Clara, California (March 23-26, 2009)
1.3 JavaOne 2009 - San Francisco, California (June 2-5, 2009)
1.4 O'Reilly OSCON 2009 - San Jose, California (July 20-24, 2009)
2 JASIG Project Updates
2.1 Central Authentication Service (CAS)
2.1.1 CAS4 Blog Entries & Code
2.1.2 CAS Steering Committee Update
2.1.3 CAS Client for Java 3.1.5 Release
2.1.4 CAS in the Wild
2.1.5 CAS Deployers
2.1.6 CAS @ the Upcoming Conference
2.1.7 Hobsons EMT Connect CRM to Include CAS Support
2.2 uPortal
2.2.1 uPortal 3 Adoption
2.2.2 uPortal @ Spring Conference 2009
3 Around JASIG
3.1 Unicon Announces uPortal 3 Platform Training and Portlet Development Training
3.2 Webinar - Take a Guided Tour of uPortal 3 (Thursday, January 15, 2009, 2 pm Eastern)
4 Notes from the Open Source Community
4.1 MySQL Opens Opportunities in Education
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1 Upcoming Events
1.1 JASIG Spring Conference - Dallas, Texas (March 1-4, 2009)
"Higher Education Open Source Communities - Working Together"
March 1-4, 2009
Dallas, Texas, USA
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Spring Conference - Supplementary Seminars: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/seminars.html
Spring Conference Home: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/index.html
1.2 EclipseCon 2009 - Santa Clara, California (March 23-26, 2009)
"The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce EclipseCon 2009, March 23rd - 26th, 2009, in Santa Clara, California. The entire Eclipse community is invited to participate."
Source: http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/
Official Blog: http://eclipsecon.blogspot.com/
1.3 JavaOne 2009 - San Francisco, California (June 2-5, 2009)
"June will be a good time in San Francisco. JavaOne will kick off the month with another amazing event bringing together some of the most influential leaders in technology. Be sure to join us as experts talk about Java technology, RIA's, scripting, JavaFX, Ajax, Web 2.0 and so much more. It's an excellent time to network with peers, be with fellow community members and spend time learning, listening and a week of opportunity."
Source: http://java.sun.com/javaone/index.jsp
Reference: http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/
1.4 O'Reilly OSCON 2009 - San Jose, California (July 20-24, 2009)
"Join us at OSCON 2009, the crossroads of all things open source. Come together with 3,000 of the best, brightest, and most interesting people to explore what's new and to help define, maintain, and extend the identity of what it means to be open source. OSCON is the place to be inspired and challenged, renew bonds to community, make new connections, and discover the most relevant projects and products to help you do your best."
Source: OSCON (Open Source Convention) web site: http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/content/home
2 JASIG Project Updates
2.1 CAS
2.1.1 CAS4 Blog Entries & Code
Scott Battaglia, Lead Architect of JASIG Central Authentication Service, has taken to his blog in an effort for a more transparent development process. You can find three entries related to the design, architecture, and configuration here:
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These blog entries, in combination with the list, will be used to solicit feedback about design and extension points, as well as common use cases. We encourage you to contribute to the discussion on whichever medium suits you (either blog or mailing list).
2.1.2 CAS Steering Committee Update
The CAS Steering Committee continues to provide general guidance and proposals for the CAS Community. The Steering Committee is currently working on (1) suggestions for suggesting enhancements to both the CAS protocol and the CAS software and (2) guidelines for contributing to the CAS project. All CAS Steering Committee meeting announcements and notes can be found in their Wiki Space: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASST/Home
The steering committee also hosts monthly community conference calls. Interested parties should contact Benn Oshrin or Scott Battaglia.
2.1.3 CAS Client for Java 3.1.5 Release
The JASIG CAS Client for Java 3.1.5 has been released. It should start appearing in the Public Maven2 repository by 12/19/2008. This release includes a fix to restore Java 1.4 JVM compile-time compatibility as well as fix the JIRA support so that it actually works.
2.1.4 CAS in the Wild
- The next release of Spring Security will include the JASIG CAS Client for Java 3.1.5
- CAS4 code has started to appear in the JASIG Subversion repository.
2.1.5 CAS Deployers
If you're a new CAS deployer, please take a moment to let us know by emailing Scott Battaglia <scott.battaglia@gmail.com>.
2.1.6 CAS @ the Upcoming Conference
While presentation proposals are still be drafted, we do know that there will be a Pre-Conference seminar given by Adam Rybicki, VP @ Unicon on CAS3: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/seminars.html
2.1.7 Hobsons EMT Connect CRM to Include CAS Support
Hobsons's upcoming EMT Connect CRM product will include support for JASIG CAS. For more information, please see their press release: http://pr-gb.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=65159&Itemid=34
2.2 uPortal
2.2.1 uPortal 3 Adoption
This year has been a busy one for those institutions implementing uPortal 3. Read all about their efforts on the JASIG wiki at: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/vQXP . If you are investigating the adoption of uPortal 3.X and have not yet including your institution's information on this page, please do so. We'd love to hear your story.
2.2.2 uPortal @ Spring Conference 2009
Are you going to Spring Conference 2009 in Dallas ("Higher Education Open Source Communities - Working Together")? Consider registrating for a Supplementary Seminar. Offerings include "Migrating to uPortal 3", "Skinning uPortal 3", and "Getting Started with uPortal".
3 Around JASIG
3.1 Unicon Announces uPortal 3 Platform Training and Portlet Development Training
Phoenix, AZ - December 16, 2008 — Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source software consulting services for the education market, today announced it will be offering uPortal 3 training courses to enterprise IT staff and Web portal developers interested in attending a 3-day, hands-on session covering everything from introductory basics to authentication and portlet development. The first training course titled, "uPortal 3.0 Platform Training", will take place January 20-22, 2009 at Unicon's corporate offices in Chandler, Arizona. The second course titled, "Portlet Development Training" will take place March 5-7, 2009 at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas and coincides with the JA-SIG Spring Conference. For more information or to register for the training courses, visit: http://www.unicon.net/company/news/events.
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3.2 Webinar - Take a Guided Tour of uPortal 3 (Thursday, January 15, 2009, 2 pm Eastern)
"Explore uPortal 3's capabilities, tools, and best practices" with Unicon's Andrew Petro.
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Source: Unicon @ http://www.unicon.net
4 Notes from the Open Source Community
4.1 MySQL Opens Opportunities in Education
On campus, open source is opening opportunities. Consider Mark Zuckerberg, former Harvard University undergrad.
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JASIG Newsletter - December 2008
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