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JASIG NEWSLETTER - JUNE 2010
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JASIG PROJECTS
Central Authentication Service (CAS)
- Jasig CAS Client for Java 3.1.11
- Announcement: Mitigating the Risk Due to Inherent Characteristics of Bearer Tokens
uPortal - July 2010 uPortal Community Call
- uPortal Documentation Coordinator
Bedework - Who's using Bedework? - – You tell us
- Bedework and Internationalization
- Bedework visits Universidad Pública de Navarra
AROUND JASIG
- Jasig 2010 Elections - Call for Nominations
- Sakai Project Manager Position Open
- Kuali Days Call for Proposals
- Contegix Becomes Newest Jasig Partner
UPCOMING EVENTS
- The Jasig Fall 2010 Unconference is Coming!
- OSCON 2010 Open Source Convention - Portland, Oregon (July 19-23, 2010)
- 2010 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference - Anaheim, California (October 12-15, 2010)
TECH CORNER
- "Unplutofy" your Portlets
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JASIG PROJECTS
Central Authentication Service (CAS)
Jasig CAS Client for Java 3.1.11
We're pleased to announce a new release of the Jasig CAS Client for Java (version 3.1.11). The releases notes include:
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Announcement: Mitigating the Risk Due to Inherent Characteristics of Bearer Tokens
Dear CAS Community,
The CAS Steering Committee was recently presented with a paper that detailed some of the risks of protocols that use bearer tokens. The paper specifically mentioned CAS, though just about all protocols that use bearer tokens are subject to these risks.
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uPortal
July 2010 uPortal Community Call
Thursday July 22, 2010
8:30am Pacific, 11:30am Eastern, 16:30 BST
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uPortal Documentation Coordinator
The uPortal Steering Committee is proud to introduce Laura McCord from Southwestern as the uPortal Documentation Coordinator. Laura will be working with the uPortal developers and community to revise and update the uPortal 3.2 user manual. As the work progresses, she and the uPortal Steering Committee will be posting status updates on the uPortal email lists. Laura will also be soliciting feedback via the uPortal email lists throughout the process. If you have questions, comments or any other feedback about uPortal documentation and more specifically the uPortal 3.2 manual for now please feel free to chime in on the uPortal email lists or contact Laura directly at mccordl@southwestern.edu
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Bedework
Who's using Bedework?
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– You tell us
On the new Bedework presence on the Jasig website, http://jasig.org/bedework, we have adopted the Jasig project convention (as per CAS and uPortal) of allowing those of you who have deployed Bedework to share the details of your deployment.
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Bedework and Internationalization
Bedework was designed to accommodate internationalization. Bedework 3.6, the most recent release, has the most comprehensive changes for internationalization. Recent posts to the Bedework mailing lists indicate that there is more progress to be made with respect to internationalization.
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Bedework visits Universidad Pública de Navarra
Jonathan Markow, Jasig Executive Director, and I, at the invitation of the Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA), a long-time Bedework contributor and uPortal site, presented at the The Sectoral Committee on Information Technologies and Communication of the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE-TIC) at the Public University of Navarra, June 14-15. CRUE is a nonprofit association made up of 71 Spanish public and private universities.
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Jonathan presented on Jasig and its projects, and I followed with a presentation about Bedework, open source and community source, and finally what I referred to as "un mundo, un calendario" - – "one world, one calendar". Jonathan and I both stressed our Bedework/Jasig desire to see greater collaboration with our European colleagues. A lively Q&A session followed our presentations.
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AROUND JASIG
Jasig 2010 Elections - Call for Nominations
Jasig is pleased to announce the opening of nominations for the Board of Directors, the uPortal Steering Committee, and the CAS Steering Committee.
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Sakai Project Manager Position Open
Sakai is looking for a new breed of Project Manager. The vibrant, broadly distributed, very diverse next generation Sakai project needs a PM who can coordinate an agile development team with a focus on inclusion, participatory design and broad community engagement. If you are excited by this opportunity to explore new territory as part of the Sakai team, please see
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Kuali Days Call for Proposals
Dear Jasig Community,
The Kuali Foundation just opened up a Call for Proposals for our Kuali Days 2010 conference. This is the first Call for Proposals that we have ever done, and we're working hard to make sure that word gets out. We are also hoping that some of our sister communities like Jasig will take advantage of the Other Topics track to submit presentations and come to Kuali Days.
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Contegix Becomes Newest Jasig Partner
Contegix, a leading provider of internet infrastructure intelligence and hosting management services, announced that it has joined Jasig, the not-for-profit consortium which provides a collaborative environment to foster the development of open source technologies and software for higher education.
Contegix will be providing hosting and managed support of the Jasig Internet infrastructure. This will allow the organization to focus on its core business - – the development of their software products and support of the growing community. The new Jasig infrastructure is built on Contegix's stable platform and is fully managed 24x7 by Contegix engineers. Thus, it will greatly reduce the time spent doing troubleshooting and support internally.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
The Jasig Fall 2010 Unconference is Coming!
DATES:
October 18-20, Unconference sessions
October 21, Developer meetings
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OSCON 2010 Open Source Convention - Portland, Oregon (July 19-23, 2010)
"OSCON welcomes everyone passionate about open source, from developers, designers, trainers, and programmers to sys admins, IT managers, hackers, and entrepreneurs.
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2010 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference - Anaheim, California (October 12-15, 2010)
"In the realm of higher education information technology, no other event brings together more powerful, creative minds in the field than the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference...
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TECH CORNER
"Unplutofy" your Portlets
Gary S. Weaver of Duke University released the "unplutofy" project in GitHub. Unplutofy is a utility for those that need to undeploy JSR-168 portlets in preparation for redeployment to a portal that uses a different version of Apache Pluto. This would be of interest to those with deployed portlets that wish to upgrade their portal and to those that wish to migrate portlets to/from another portal. It would also be useful in cleaning up portlets accidentally deployed multiple times. For more information, see: http://github.com/garysweaver/unplutofy
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Jasig Newsletter - June 2010
Editor: Mark Rogers (University of Manitoba)
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