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JASIG FALL UNCONFERENCE
- Register for the Jasig Unconference!
- Portlet Development Training following the Jasig 2010 Unconference
JASIG PROJECTS
Central Authentication Service (CAS)
Client and Server Updates
- mod_auth_cas
- Jasig CAS Client for Java
- phpCAS
- .NET Client
- Server
Community News
- Community Call
- Regional Meetups
- Steering Committee Updates
uPortal
- September 2010 uPortal Community Call
- Steering Committee Update
Bedework
- Bedework-ing: Jasig Unconference
- Bedework-ing: Updated Bedework 3.6 Quickstart
- Bedework-ing: Bedework 3.7 milestone release
- Bedework-ing: DBMS
- Bedework-ing: Jasig Calendar
- Bedework-ing: Recent Bedework deployments
- Bedework-ing: Calendaring Industry News
UPCOMING COMMUNITY EVENTS
- 2010 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference - Anaheim, California (October 12-15, 2010)
- Fall 2010 Internet2 Member Meeting - Atlanta, Georgia (November 1-4, 2010)
- Kuali Days 2010 - San Diego, California (November 8-10, 2010)
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- Review the latest work on Jasig Portlets
- Learn about JSR 286 development
- Get help with local portlet development
- Bring your own portlet work for code review
- Learn about the initiative for Grouper/uPortal integration
- Get an early look at upcoming new features
- Learn about the ongoing uPortal documentation project
Bedework
- Preview the Bedework 3.7 release
- Learn about Restful Web Services for Calendaring
- Check out the upcoming personal calendaring features
- Get help with Bedework integration
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Client and Server Updates
mod_auth_cas
- mod_auth_cas 1.0.9 release is right around the corner if there's more available testers
- current trunk has a number of new features including curl support (also needs testing)
- Looking for Windows testers so that the project is able to continue including Windows support
Jasig CAS Client for Java
- Marching towards a 3.1.12 release with improved JAAS support, and new Tomcat integration
- Forthcoming 3.2 release will require Java 5 and switch license to Apache 2
phpCAS
- phpCAS welcomes a new developer, Matthew Brooks, who will be assisting with future development.
- phpCAS recently released version 1.1.3 RC1 with seven bug fixes. Its stable enough for testing. Its targeted for an end of September release.
- phpCAS is actively working on version 1.2.0, with two major remaining tasks and an ETA of late November / early December.
.NET Client
- The .NET Client team plans to release their 1.0 client during the fall.
Server
- Hard at work on the 3.5 release by finalizing APIs and adding more SAML2 support
- Multi-Factor Calls continue almost weekly
- Working on UI enhancements to the example UI which should provide a good basis for deployers
Community News
Community Call
September was the first month the new format for the community call, and it was a great success. Howard Gilbert, from Yale University, presented on their experience with clustering CAS using JBoss Cache. The slides and audio of that call can be found here:
Regional Meetups
The CAS Steering Committee is looking to organize regional meetups with the following goals:
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Register your interest in a regional meet up: https://wiki.jasig.org/display/CAS/Regional+Meet+Ups
Steering Committee Updates
The Steering Committee is starting its new term. Eric Pierce, who did not run for re-election, ended his term. We wish him well, and expect him to continue to be involved in Jasig CAS. William Thompson (who many of you may remember from the earlier uPortal days) joins us. Andrew Petro and Marvin Addison return for another term. Marvin was also elected by his peers to be this term's chair.
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uPortal
- September 2010 uPortal Community Call
The uPortal Steering Committee held its most recent uPortal Community Call on Thursday September 30 at 11:30am EST. The agenda included:
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An archived version of the slides and audio will be available at http://www.slideshare.net/uportal. If you have ideas for future calls or would like to demonstrate some of your portal functionality, please email uportal-steering-committee at lists dot jasig dot org.
- Steering Committee Updates
The uPortal Steering Committee welcomes its newest elected member, Laura McCord from Southwestern University. Laura will continue to act as the uPortal documenation coordinator where she is successfully leading an effort to improve the uPortal user manual. She will be collaborating with others in the community at the Jasig Fall Unconference in addition to soliciting contributions via email. Welcome aboard, Laura!
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Bedework
- Bedework-ing: Jasig Unconference
Bedework developers Mike Douglass, Arlen Johnson, Barry Leibson, and hopefully, many of you, will be attending the Unconference. Two very timely topics which we could discuss at the Unconference are: the new features in the Bedework 3.7 milestone release, and the recent work in CalConnect and OASIS on a web services calendaring standard.
- Bedework-ing: Updated Bedework 3.6 Quickstart
On September 14th, a bug-fix release of the Bedework 3.6 quickstart (v.3.6.0.13) was made available for download at http://www.jasig.org/bedework/.
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- CalDAV updates
- Fixes to disallow adding of certain characters in calendar system (path) names
- Fix to sorting bug (events were not in chronological order) in public clients
- Fix to recurring events in which instances could be orphaned
- Addition of PostgreSQL config files
- New key generator service available from the JMX console
- Bedework-ing: Bedework 3.7 milestone release
We anticipate a Bedework 3.7 milestone release will be available prior to the Unconference. This release is largely a product of the collaboration between RPI and the University of California at Berkeley, and focuses on personal calendaring. Additionally, BW 3.7 will have much improved CardDAV and addressbook capabilities, and implements the (evolving) CalConnect/OASIS web service interface.
- Bedework-ing: DBMS
We announced on the BW lists that, PostgreSQL is now the recommended OSS DBMS for use with Bedework. The BW documentation will be updated to reflect this change away from MySQL. The postings to the list contain additional technical detail, and follow-up discussion.
- Bedework-ing: Jasig Calendar
Planning and development continue on the BW calendar for Jasig projects. We anticipate this new feature will be available from the Jasig web site prior to the Unconference.
- Bedework-ing: Recent Bedework deployments
We welcome Centenary College, http://calendar.centenarycollege.edu/cal, the Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, http://kalendar.ukf.sk, and the University of Notre Dame, http://calendar.nd.edu/cal/, to the Bedework family.
- Bedework-ing: Calendaring Industry News
"CalWS-Rest Restful Web Services Protocol for Calendaring" has been published as a CalConnect Proposal. This specification provides a RESTful web services protocol for calendaring operations, and was developed in conjunction with the OASIS WS-Calendar technical committee. Mike Douglass served as editor for the CalConnect document, which is available at
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