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JA-SIG Newsletter - June 2008
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1 Welcome
1.1 Editor's Message
Welcome to the June 2008 edition of the JA-SIG Newsletter!
We have a lot of exciting content this month, including important CAS and uPortal announcements, very interesting news items, and an upcoming events calendar. The latter part of the newsletter highlights a few notes and posts "from the blogosphere".
I hope you enjoy this month's content! As always, feel free to send your comments or content to newsletter at jasig dot org.
~mark_rogers@mac.com Mark Mark (University of Manitoba), Editor, JA-SIG Newsletter
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The CAS Server team is currently working on the next minor release (3.2.2) of the CAS Server. The current stable version, 3.2.1, is available on the CAS Downloads page.
2.1.2 CAS Clients (Java and PHP)
Java
The CAS Client for Java 3.1.3 is now available and includes a number of bug fixes and new features. This new client can be found at the CAS Downloads page or obtained directly from the JA-SIG Maven2 Repository . Its also available from the public Maven2 repository for those who use Maven2 to manage their projects.
So what's changed? http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10100&styleName=Html&version=10540
PHP
phpCAS 1.0.0 RC1 is now available at http://www.ja-sig.org/downloads/cas-clients/php/current/ now available for download. Special thanks to Julien Marchal (Single Sign Out) and Brett Bieber (PEAR packaging).
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Additionally, CAS deployment particulars are listed for a number of institutions: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CAS/CAS+Production+Set+Ups Feel free to add or update your institution's information on this page.
Contributed by:
Scott Battaglia ScottS (Rutgers University), Lead Developer, JA-SIG Central Authentication Service
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I want to thank everyone who contributed to the development both directly and indirectly. Having this developer community available for both code and design insight has been invaluable.
Contributed by:
Eric Dalquist (University of Wisconsin-Madison), uPortal 3 Release Engineer
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The uPortal steering committee has been discussing and acting on followup follow-up on the successful St. Paul JA-SIG conference. One specific direction is that of positioning uPortal to participate in Google Summer of Code next summer and to institute an approach of appropriately-sized uPortal-related projects with mentors and mentees. Another specific near-term strategy for uPortal and the committee is to keep the project engaged with the growing set of schools immediately exploring uPortal 3 in order to foster near-term uPortal 3 adoption momentum. The steering committee is also eager to see the JASIG JA-SIG website update project becoming more active, giving the uPortal website update requirements another look.
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It's up to you! Ideas people are talking about so far include the following:
- Lightning Talks - Volunteers talk for up to 10 minutes. Any topic goes.
- Code Clinics - Bring your uPortal, portlet, or CAS code or problem and work on it with core developers
- Birds of a Feather Sessions - Discuss common interests, issues, problems with colleagues.
- Screencast Factory - Show off your work while a facilitator captures it to share with the community.
- Strategic Planning - What should JA-SIG be focused on next year? In three years? Join the conversation.
- How-to's. How-not-to's. Tips and techniques.
The final schedule will be determined in real-time, interactively with the attendees.
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The Unicon bloggers are always busy providing interesting content, including an interesting a recent post by Cris Holdorph on the final release of the JSR-286 specification. Read that post this and more at: http://www.unicon.net/blogs
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