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JASIG NEWSLETTER - DECEMBER 2009
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3.1 Bedework Status Update
3.2 Bedework Project Steering Committee
4 AROUND JASIG
4.1 Jasig Board News
4.2 MailPortlet 2.0.0-alpha-7 Released
4.3 Enterprise Portals as the User Interface of a Services Oriented Architecture - Andrew Petro (Unicon, Inc.)
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http://www.ja-sig.org/downloads/cas-clients/
~battags ScottS (Rutgers University), Lead Developer, Jasig Central Authentication Service
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The OpenRegistry development is currently being led by Simon Fraser University and Rutgers University. OpenRegistry is a Jasig Incubation project.
Cheers,Contributed by:
Scott Battaglia (Rutgers University) - on the openregistry-dev list
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Jasig is proud to announce the General Audience release of uPortal 3.1.2. This release is the result of feedback from the significant interest and use of the previous 3.1 releases.
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Jasig is proud to announce the General Audience release of uPortal 3.0.5 GA . This release is the result of feedback from the significant interest and use of the previous 3.0 releases.
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On behalf of the Bedework development team,
Gary Schwartz
3.2 Bedework Project Steering Committee
The Bedework project is in the process of forming its initial steering committee, and we are looking for volunteers to join the group.
In the Jasig governance model, project steering committees are the groups tasked with the strategic direction and operational oversight of each project. They act as primary advocates for the projects. Their responsibilities include the following:
- Capture feedback from and manage communication with the community, including the project strategy and roadmap
- Determine priority of deliverables for releases
- Determine resource needs
- Partner with institutions, commercial affiliates, and other community source projects to recruit, acquire, and develop resources from the community
- Assist in any grant proposals on behalf of the project
- Prioritize the use of external resources that have been allocated to the project
- Monitor progress towards releases
- Communicate regularly with the Jasig Board on project status, legal and intellectual property issues, etc.
The initial Bedework Steering Committee will be formed as follows:
One Jasig Board Liaison, appointed by the board. Gary Schwartz, RPI, current Bedework Project Manager, has been asked by the Jasig board to fill this role.
Three Bedework Developers. Arlen Johnson and Mike Douglass, two of the RPI developers, will be appointed for the initial term. We are asking that a third developer be nominated (or self-nominated) on the bedework-dev mailing list, with the finalist selected by vote of the current Bedework committers. Thereafter, all developer positions will be selected subject to committer voting.
Three Community Stakeholders. A "stakeholder" is someone who has a strong interest in the health, welfare, and sustainability of the project and wishes to lead community efforts on its behalf. If you fit this description, we ask you to express your interest in serving on the committee by sending an email to info@jasig.org. After the initial term, stakeholders will be chosen subject to vote of the Jasig Membership. Additional stakeholders may be added as working members, if approved by the committee.
The Jasig executive director will serve on the committee as an ex officio member.
Steering committees meet by teleconference once a month. Typically, committee members spend a couple of hours a week on project business throughout the year.
So...in summary:
Bedework stakeholders, please let us know if you are interested in joining the steering committee by emailing info@jasig.org. We'd like to hear from you by December 31.
Developers, please select someone to join Arlen and Mike as Developer Representatives on the committee by the end of this month.
Jasig is excited to welcome Bedework as a fully sponsored project and growing community. Formation of the project steering committee is an important step in this direction. We expect to report back to you on its final makeup in the beginning of the new year.
Wishing everyone a happy holiday season,
Jonathan Markow, Executive Director, Jasig
Gary Schwartz, Bedework Project Manager, RPI
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For anyone who is interested, MailPortlet 2.0.0-alpha-7 is available in Jasig subversion at: https:at: https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/sandbox/MailPortlet/tags/rel-2.0.0-alpha-7
Also updated: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/PLT/MailPortlet http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/svndisplay/sandbox/MailPortlet/tags/rel-PLT/MailPortlet+User+Manual
Change log:
- MPT-23 - (Minor UI fix) Now shows last breadcrumb correctly for create mail account and delete mail account views in configuration
(Note: Duke is now running in production with uPortal 2.5.3 with 2.0.0-alpha-7
Also updated: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/PLT/MailPortlet http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/PLT/MailPortlet+User+Manual
Change log:
- MPT-23 - (Minor UI fix) Now shows last breadcrumb correctly for create mail account and delete mail account views in configuration
(Note: Duke is now running in production with uPortal 2.5.3 with 2.0.0-alpha-7.)
Thanks,
Gary Weaver (Duke University)
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Thanks,
Gary Weaver (Duke University)
4.3 Enterprise Portals as the User Interface of a Services Oriented Architecture - Andrew Petro (Unicon, Inc.)
"I had the privilege of presenting a Webinar today entitled "Enterprise Portals as the User Interface to Services Oriented Architecture" and in this post I share the slides."
See Andrew's full blog entry (with slide deck) at: http://www.unicon.net/blog/apetro/portal_as_ui_of_soa
Andrew's Blog: http://www.unicon.net/blog/apetro
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
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Jasig Newsletter - December 2009
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Special thanks to Scott Battaglia, Jim Helwig, Jonathan Markow and Danielle Wilhelmy for assistance and advice on this issue.
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