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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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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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JA-SIG Newsletter - June 2008
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