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JASIG NEWSLETTER - FEBRUARY 2010
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1 UPCOMING EVENTS
1.1 Jasig Spring 2010 Conference: "Ten Years of Open Source Innovation"
1.2 Advance CAMP: The Second Identity Services Summit - Raleigh, North Carolina (June 23-25, 2010)
1.3 11th Sakai Conference - Denver, Colorado, USA (June 2010)
1.4 OSCON 2010 Open Source Convention - Portland, Oregon (July 19-23, 2010)
2 JASIG PROJECT UPDATES
2.1 Central Authentication Service (CAS)
2.1.1 CAS Roadmap Updated
2.2 uPortal
2.2.1 uPortal Opportunities at the Spring Conference
2.2.2 uPortal 3.2.0 GA announcement
3 JASIG INCUBATOR
3.1 Bedework Quickstart v.3.6.0.6 (bugfix release)
3.2 Bedework Manual 3.6 Released
4 FROM THE JASIG SPRING 2010 CONFERENCE BLOG
4.1 Sharing at the Conference
4.2 Preparing for a Jasig Conference
4.3 And much, much more ...
5 AROUND JASIG
5.1 Ninth Annual "ESUP-Day" Draws 140 Participants In Paris
5.2 Unicon's Cooperative Development Subscribers Support Work on Permissions Portlet
5.3 Open Source, Why or Why Not? Market Research White Paper Made Available by Unicon
5.4 UC Berkeley and RPI to Collaborate on Bedework Enhancements
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1 UPCOMING EVENTS
1.1 Jasig Spring 2010 Conference: "Ten Years of Open Source Innovation"
When: March 8 - 10, 2010
Supplementary Seminars March 7th and 10th
Developer Days, March 11 - 12
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1.2 Advance CAMP: The Second Identity Services Summit - Raleigh, North Carolina (June 23-25, 2010)
Register now for the Advance CAMP (Campus Architecture and Middleware Planning) workshop, "The Second Identity Services Summit," June 23-25, 2010, in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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1.3 11th Sakai Conference - Denver, Colorado, USA (June 2010)
"The 11th Annual Sakai Conference will be taking place in beautiful Denver Colorado. The conference website with registration information is scheduled to be up and running in mid-February. In the meantime, here are some important dates so you can plan your calendar:
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1.4 OSCON 2010 Open Source Convention - Portland, Oregon (July 19-23, 2010)
"OSCON brings together over 2,500 experts, visionaries, and hackers in the trenches to explore all that open source has to offer. OSCON is the premier gathering place to gain exposure to and evaluate the new projects, tools, services, platforms, languages, software, and standards sweeping through the open source community. Whether you want to make it faster, more effective, or more efficient, open source helps you make it happen for the long term."
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2 JASIG PROJECT UPDATES
2.1 Central Authentication Service (CAS)
2.1.1 CAS Roadmap Updated
We've updated the CAS roadmap to reflect a more realistic target (essentially pulling a bunch of the stuff that was targeted for release 4 into 3.x releases to get the features to you sooner).
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2.2 uPortal
2.2.1 uPortal Opportunities at the Spring Conference
The 10th Anniversary Jasig Conference in San Diego March 7-10 is full of uPortal-related offerings. There are half-day seminars on migration to uPortal 3, portlet development, uPortal for mobile devices, and using jQuery. In addition, over a dozen sessions will cover portal-related topics including the following:
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2.2.2 uPortal 3.2.0 GA announcement
Jasig is proud to announce the General Audience release of uPortal 3.2 GA. uPortal 3.2 is the recommended version with which to start a new uPortal deployment.
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3 JASIG INCUBATOR
3.1 Bedework Quickstart v.3.6.0.6 (bug fix release)
A bug fix release of Bedework 3.6 (v.3.6.0.6) is available for download: http://www.bedework.org/bedework/update.do?artcenterkey=2
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3.2 Bedework Manual 3.6 Released
The Bedework 3.6 Manual is now available at http://www.bedework.org/bedework/update.do?artcenterkey=22
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4 FROM THE JASIG SPRING 2010 CONFERENCE BLOG
4.1 Sharing at the Conference
I bet there is something you really want to talk about with others at the Jasig Spring Conference. Maybe you just rolled out a new portal? Developed a cool web application or portlet? Use CAS in an innovative way? Found a new development tool? Are looking for advice on solving a tricky development problem? There are multiple ways to get the word out and it isn't too late to sign up.
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4.2 Preparing for a Jasig Conference
The program committee is sometimes asked, "how do I prepare for the upcoming Jasig conference." The reality is, you can't prepare for it. Jasig conferences are usually known for exceeding the expectations of the attendees. With keynotes by noted industry heavyweights such as Justin Erenkrantz from the Apache Software Foundation, Rod Johnson from SpringSource, and Gregory Jackson from EDUCAUSE, everyone is sure to find something to keep them riveted. Add to that tons of presentations on open source projects such as CAS, uPortal, Bedework, Kuali, HelpDesk, Spring Security and more, and you're sure to learn something! Pre-Conference and Post-Conference seminars add an extra level of learning to an already full conference. Despite this, there are a few things you can try to do to prepare for the conference:
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4.3 And much, much more ...
Visit the Conference blog at http://jasig.blogspot.com to get the latest news on Jasig Spring 2010. Current posts include:
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5 AROUND JASIG
5.1 Ninth Annual "ESUP-Day" Draws 140 Participants In Paris
One hundred and forty participants took in the 9th ESUP-Day conference held in Paris on February 5, 2010.
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5.2 Unicon's Cooperative Development Subscribers Support Work on Permissions Portlet
Unicon's Cooperative Development Subscribers have voted up the development work to get JSR-286 support in place; we were very excited to see that as it aligns well with the overall community needs. Understanding the importance and value of getting to JSR-286 compliance and its perquisites led us to the work in progress at this time. A key element moving to compliance is to ensure the channels in need are updated as portlets.
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5.3 Open Source, Why or Why Not? Market Research White Paper Made Available by Unicon
Unicon, Inc., has published its market research findings from the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference in the white paper, "'The Future of Free': Open Source, Why Or Why Not?". Unicon conducted a market research session at the conference on Nov. 4, 2009, in which participants were invited to discuss why their institution has or has not adopted open source software (OSS), their opinions on the future of OSS, and what challenges they see for increased OSS adoption among higher education institutions.
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5.4 UC Berkeley and RPI to Collaborate on Bedework Enhancements
The University of California, Berkeley and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be collaborating on enhancements to the Bedework personal calendaring client, for deployment at UC Berkeley in late 2010. These enhancements will be included in the next Bedework release.
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Jasig Newsletter - February 2010
Editor: Mark Rogers (University of Manitoba)
Past editions of the Jasig Newsletter can be found in the Jasig wiki at: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/Newsletter
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