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1 Welcome
1.1 Editor's Message
Welcome to the September 2007 issue of the JA-SIG Newsletter.
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Enjoy!
~mark_rogers@mac.com (University of Manitoba), Editor, JA-SIG Newsletter
2 Education and Training
2.1 uPortal Administration Training - Unicon Inc.
Following up to Unicon's announcement on http://www.uportal.org (Unicon Announces September uPortal Administration Training at Sacramento State), we would like to add that this is the first time that this class will use uPortal 2.6 and JDK 1.6. Since DLM is now the de facto uPortal standard, students will be able to learn ways to migrate from using ALM to DLM.
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Thank you,
Adam Rybicki, Professional Services, Unicon, Inc.
2.2 CampusEAI Offers uPortal Training at University of Dundee (Scotland)
CampusEAI's 5-Day, Training Course will cover uPortal and CAS topics.
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Registration: Send an email to jonathan_mullapudy@campuseai.org
There are only five seats available!
3 Project Updates
3.1 Central Authentication Service (CAS)
The CAS team is currently working on a 3.1.1 maintenance release for its 3.1.x branch. This release will include bug fixes and enhancements as well as minor updates and additional languages for internationalization.
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Contributed by:
~battags (Rutgers University), Lead Developer, JA-SIG Central Authentication Service
3.2 uPortal
Since the previous newsletter, Eric Dalquist has generously taken on release engineering activities around a near-term uPortal 2.6.1 patch release, towards which an RC1 is already available on the uPortal downloads site. This release includes fixes to the improved portlet deployment utility contributed by Drew Wills and maintained in this patch via collaboration with Brad Johnson and others. This release may also include a fix for UP-1816, which tracks a serious issue in support for JSR-168 portlet sessions and a proposed fix spearheaded by Eric Dalquist and successfully tested by an increasing number of uPortal developers. It is not too late to help test this patch and thereby to expedite its inclusion in uPortal. Several other bugs are also fixed in 2.6.1 RC1.
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Increasingly, uPortal developers are discussing and collaborating in an IRC chat room hosted by freenode. Connection information and logs are available in the wiki.
~awp9 et. al.
4 Community News and Events
4.1 The JA-SIG Winter 2007 Unconference is Coming!
Who? What? Where?
Dates: November 12-13, 2007 / November 14-16, 2007 (optional post-conference activities)
Place: New Brunswick, NJ (Home of Rutgers University)
Details: Info about fees, lodging, meals, etc. will be coming very soon. Costs will be low, as making this an affordable event with low barriers to participation is a key focus.
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Best regards, and we hope to see you at the Unconference,
The Winter 2007 Unconference Committee
4.2 Fall 2007 Fluid Summit (University of Toronto)
The Fall 2007 Fluid Summit is being held in Toronto from September 24-28, 2007.
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Contributed by:
Colin Clark (University of Toronto), Technical Lead, Fluid Project http://fluidproject.org
4.3 University of Alaska Fairbanks Joins JA-SIG
The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) is new member of JA-SIG. UAF is part of the University of Alaska state higher education system, along with major campuses in Anchorage and Juneau and 13 rural locations. The MyUA portal serves all the campuses and is powered by Luminis.
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Contributed by:
Tom Moyer, MyUA Project Manager
5 Community Member Profile
5.1 Q&A with Jason Shao of Rutgers University
Jason Shao of Rutgers University generously agreed to answer a few questions about his involvement in the JA-SIG community. Here are his responses.
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