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In addition to the usual project updates, this month's content includes announcements regarding the JA-SIG Spring Conference and the uPortal Board Liaison role. You will also find herein a few interesting job postings at Yale and an exciting opportunity with the Kuali Foundation, and an insightful commentary on uPortal by our Acting Executive Director, Jonathan Markow.
Special thanks go to Andrew Petro, Jim Helwig and Jonathan Markow Unlicensed user, Unlicensed user and Unlicensed user for helping me out with the content for this month.
As always, feel free to send your comments or content to newsletter at ja-sig dot org.
Happy Holidays!
~mark_rogers@mac.com Unlicensed user (University of Manitoba - Home of the Vanier Cup Champions!)
Editor, JA-SIG Newsletter
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Speaking of migrations, to DLM and otherwise, Unicon's Drew Wills has been continuing exciting work of late (including work undertaken on behalf of Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, and others) to improve open source tooling for import, export, and migration of uPortal data, which is expected to ease the migration path to the upcoming uPortal 3 release.
Contributed by:
~awp9 Unlicensed user, uPortal 2.6.1 release engineer
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At this month's Sakai conference in Newport Beach, California, Dan McCallum and Andrew Petro Unlicensed user, both of Unicon, Inc., presented on their having investigated potential for re-use of and integration with JA-SIG software in the Sakai collaboration and learning environment. Andrew emphasizes that Dan deserves credit for the technical heavy lifting involved. The investigated integration, available via Sakai "contrib" shared source control, explores programmatic integration with JA-SIG CAS and JA-SIG PersonDirectory services. This is a level of integration beyond that normally afforded in Sakai's support for e.g. use of CAS single sign on.
The presentation was well-received and included mention of additional opportunities for using other JA-SIG software in Sakai, including the Groups and Permissions framework that plays an important role in many production uPortal instances today and has been refactored, primarily through the efforts of Columbia's ~de3 Unlicensed user, to be available as a standalone library adoptable in projects beyond uPortal.
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