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JA-SIG Newsletter - October 2008
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3.1 Call for Proposals: JA-SIG Spring Conference "Higher Education Open Source Communities - Working Together"
3.2 Unicon's Education IT Consulting Group Collaborates with Johns Hopkins University Staff for uPortal 3 Upgrade
3.3 Leading Integration of Enterprise Learning and Administrative Systems: The Next Generation
3.4 JA-SIG at Educause 2008
3.5 The JA-SIG Wiki Dashboard
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Watch for more information soon! http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/index.html
See you in Dallas this coming March,
The 2009 JASIG Spring Conference Committee
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2.2.2 uPortal 3 Upgrades
The University of Wisconsin-Madison became the latest institution to upgrade to uPortal 3. Tuesday morning they seamlessly switched to upgraded servers without a service outage. Within 24 hours 22,000 people logged in and page response rates averaged less than 1 second.
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Proposals may be entered on the JA-SIG Conference Website. Proposals require a Title, an Abstract (under 500 words), a Presenter Profile, and some basic affiliation information. This year we are also asking proposal submitters to select tags that best describe their proposals from a list of recommended tags.
Submit your proposal directly at http://www.ja-sig.org/jasigconf/call-form.jsp?conf_id=jasig15 or from the conference home page, where you can find all the details: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/index.html (Click the "Call for Proposals" link on the left).
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Phoenix, AZ - October 15, 2008 —Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals, applications, and top end technology consulting for higher education, today announced the completion of a collaborative project with the IT staff at John's Johns Hopkins University for their upgrade to the latest uPortal 3 open source enterprise portal. As part of the upgrade process, Johns Hopkins University also contracted with Unicon to develop numerous uPortal 3 feature enhancements. Johns Hopkins went live with the uPortal 3 upgrade in August 2008 and contributed the newly developed enhancements back to the open source community.
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Institutional attendee organizations will receive a free one-year membership in a new Learning Information Services Alliance for to be launched subsequent to the meeting (this is valued between $500-$1500). Outcomes from the session will be captured for use by the LIS Alliance. Membership in the LIS Alliance will allow you and your institution to interact with peers focused on enhancing the use of data exchange between student and learning systems, including implementation of the new LIS standards.
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For further details, visit the web site at http://www.ja-sig.org/news/educause2008.html for further details.
3.5 The JA-SIG Wiki Dashboard
One of the best ways to keep up with the current activity in the JA-SIG community is to watch the "Dashboard". We are referring here to the front-facing page on the JA-SIG wiki, found at: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/dashboard.action . You will find not only in-depth information on all of the JA-SIG projects, but also a listing (on the right-hand side of the page) of the most recently updated wiki pages.
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If your institution or company has items of interest to the JA-SIG membership, please submit them via email to newsletter at ja-sig dot org.
A special thanks to Scott Battaglia, Jim Helwig, and Jonathan Markow for assistance and advice on this issue.
The next JA-SIG Newsletter will be published on or about November 17th, 2008. Articles for that edition of the newsletter should be submitted no later than Friday, November 14th, 2008. Thanks!
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