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JA-SIG Newsletter - October 2008
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2 JA-SIG Project Updates
2.1 Central Authentication Service (CAS)
2.1.1 Announcing the JASIG CAS Steering Committee Members
2.1.2 CAS 4 Roadmap Finalized
2.1.3 CAS Server Updates
2.1.4 OpenRegistry Pre-Incubation Project
2.2 uPortal
2.2.1 Initiatives from the Unconference
2.2.2 uPortal 3 Upgrades
3 Around JA-SIG
3.1 Unicon's Education IT Consulting Group Collaborates with Johns Hopkins University Staff for uPortal 3 Upgrade
3.2 Leading Integration of Enterprise Learning and Administrative Systems: The Next Generation
3.3 JA-SIG at Educause 2008
3.4 The Wiki Dashboard
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More information can be found here: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/OR/Home
2.2 uPortal
2.2.1 Initiatives from the Unconference
There were a number of lively uPortal-related discussions at the Fall JASIG Unconference. Various participants discussed plans for bundling portlets with the uPortal distributions, implementing an active document caching tool for use by the portal, ERP integration and redesigning some of the administrative tools using techniques and libraries from the Fluid project.
2.2.2 uPortal 3 Upgrades
The University of Wisconsin-Madison became the latest institution to upgrade to uPortal 3. Tuesday morning they seamlessly switched to upgraded servers without a service outage. Within 24 hours 22,000 people logged in and page response rates averaged less than 1 second.
Institutions planning on upgrading or deploying uPortal 3 within the next few months include Yale University, Southern Utah University, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and University of California, Merced. Those considering or actively working on uPortal 3 implementations are encouraged to log their progress at http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/vQXP.
3 Around JA-SIG
3.1 Unicon's Education IT Consulting Group Collaborates with Johns Hopkins University Staff for uPortal 3 Upgrade
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