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JA-SIG Newsletter - January 2008
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4 Community News and Events
4.1 JA-SIG Named in Top 100 Information Content Companies
4.2 Unicon Adds Ten New uPortal Projects at Universities & Colleges in Q3/Q4 of 2007
4.3 JA-SIG Spring Conference 2008 - Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way
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As always, feel free to send your comments or content to newsletter at ja-sig dot org.
Mark Rogers
Mark (University of Manitoba), Editor, JA-SIG Newsletter
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Which brings me to this request for volunteers. If you would like to join me on the panel, please email me off-list (jjmarkow at ja-sig dot org) with a small paragraph of background information. I will select from the responses based on the variety of experiences represented, e.g., we implemented it ourselves, we relied heavily on a vendor, we are a large institution, a small one, etc.
The deadline for proposals is the end of this month, so, if you are interested, please let me hear from you soon.
Thanks!
Jonathan Markow
3 Project Updates
3.1 Central Authentication Service (CAS)
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If anyone is interested in presenting on CAS or Identity Management at the upcoming JA-SIG conference, please contact Scott Battaglia. We're always looking for great CAS/IdM content. The conference is also a great place to meet your peers who also are in IdM and compare notes and experiences.
Contributed by:
Scott Battaglia ScottS (Rutgers University), Lead Developer, JA-SIG Central Authentication Service
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JA-SIG is proud to announce the release of uPortal 3.0.0 Milestone 5. This is the first release in the uPortal 3.0.0 line based on the core uPortal codebase. The release includes a switch to Maven 2 for the build management system, a unified Spring configuration, Pluto 1.1 for portlet rendering and the Cernunnos based import/export tools.
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I want to thank everyone who contributed to the development both directly and in-directlyindirectly. Having this developer community available for both code and design insight has been invaluable.
Eric Dalquist (University of Wisconsin - Madison), uPortal 3.0.0 Release Engineer
4 Community News and Events
4.1 JA-SIG Named in Top 100 Information Content Companies
"eContent Magazine named JA-SIG as one of the Top 100 in the seventh annual list of companies "that matter most in the digital content industry." Each year in the December issue eContent magazine selects the top companies in 12 categories from classification and taxonomy to social media with a heavy emphasis on content creation, delivery, management, and services and search technologies.
This year the eight intranet and portal companies included BEA Systems Inc., IBM Corporation, Intranet DASHBOARD, JA-SIG, Liferay, Inc., Microsoft Corporation (for SharePoint), Oracle, and Viegnette Vignette Corporation. JA-SIG was unique—no employees—and unique — no employees — and serves a specific vertical—educationvertical — education.
OCLC was also included in the list for its library information services."
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"EclipseCon is the premier technical and user conference focusing on the power of the Eclipse platform. From implementers to users, and everyone in between, if you are using, building, or considering Eclipse, EclipseCon is the conference you need to attend."
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I am actually not protesting the existence of these sites. Indeed, I am tending more and more to include the word "blog" in my google searches because I know that the answer (to whatever question I may be asking) can very likely be found in someone's blog. Here is just a small sampling of blogs referencing JA-SIG projects.
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