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Jasig Newsletter - June 2009
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2.1 Central Authentication Service (CAS)
2.1.1 CAS Server
2.1.2 CAS Clients
2.1.3 CAS Community Calls
2.2 uPortal
2.2.1 uPortal Steering Committee Stakeholder Elections
2.2.2 uPortal 3.1 Technical Webinar
2.2.3 Gettysburg Portals Conference Update
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1 Upcoming Events
1.1 10th Sakai Conference - Cambridge, Massachusetts (July 8-10, 2009)
"The 10th Sakai Conference will be taking place in beautiful Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sakai conferences are high-energy events that bring together users and developers of Sakai to talk about past successes and challenges and to peer into the future for the Sakai product and community. It's an essential event if you're using or considering using the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment."
Visit the conference website for further information: https://educonference.com/sakai/boston/index.php
1.2 Beyond the Repository Fringe - Edinburgh, UK (July 30-31, 2009)
"The second un-conference with an unorthodox 'fringe' approach to repositories. This year we celebrate all things new in a recently-completed and award-winning venue, with a programme which includes novel Pecha Kucha presentations.
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Source URL: http://beyondtherepositoryfringe-emailinvite.eventbrite.com/
More info: http://www.dspace.org/index.php/component/option,com_jcalpro/Itemid,314/extid,88/extmode,view/
1.3 The Jasig Fall 2009 Unconference is Coming!
Dates:
September 28-30, Unconference sessions
October 1-2, Developer meetings
Place:
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
I Hotel and Conference Center
Registration/Fees:
Jasig Members: $225; Non-members: $275. Registration to begin next week.
Accommodations:
I Hotel and Conference Center: $119/night - Deadline for guaranteed rate is August 27, 2009.
Front Desk: 217 819 5000
Make sure you ask for the Jasig room block and rate!
What's an Unconference?
"An unconference is a conference where the content of the sessions is driven and created by the participants, generally day-by-day during the course of the event, rather than by a single organizer, or small group of organizers, in advance."
-Wikipedia
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Mark your calendar and make plans to join us! More information about the Unconference will be available soon.
What are we going to do?!
It's up to you. Ideas people are talking about so far include the following:
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More information will be available soon. See you at the Unconference!
-The Fall 2009 Jasig Unconference Organizers
1.4 EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference - Denver, Colorado (November 3-6, 2009)
"We are living in challenging times, when the need for uncommon thinking is unprecedented. You have told us you look to EDUCAUSE for insight, thought leadership, and community interaction. One event delivers all this, and more: the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference, where you will be able to tap into an expansive pool of the best thinking in higher education IT. Maximize the value of your travel dollars and join us November 3-6, 2009 in Denver, Colorado. We're offering the richest member-driven program ever, keenly focused on providing you with the kind of tangible value you can take back to campus and use all year long:
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Reference: http://net.educause.edu/e09/
1.5 Kuali Days VIII Announced! - San Antonio, Texas (November 17 and 18, 2009)
"The Kuali Foundation is pleased to announce the dates and location for the Kuali Days VIII conference. Kuali Days VIII will be held on November 17 and 18, 2009 in San Antonio, TX. In addition to the Kuali Days VIII conference event, there will be pre-conference sessions, community meetings, and other networking activities.
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Source: kuali.org - http://www.kuali.org/news/2009/05142009.html
2 Jasig Project Updates
2.1 Central Authentication Service (CAS)
2.1.1 CAS Server
CAS Server 3.3.3 Release Announcement
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NOTE: If you have modified the XML file that contains the list of argument extractors, you may need to update that XML file (see the default one for the changes). This is in support of more efficient Single Log Out.
Thanks
-Scott
4.x Branch Development
Work continues on the next generation CAS release. Recent additions to the CAS4 codebase include support for JPA, Memcached, and Memory-backed storage mechanisms, an overhauled UI Support for JPA, Memcached, and Memory-backed storage mechanisms have been completed.
You're invited to try out the code and provide feedback, suggestions, etc.
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1.2 CAS Clients
phpCAS
phpCAS 1.1 RC1 has been released with multiple enhancements including support for the samlValidate, which would allow a phpCAS client to access the attributes returned in a SAML 1.1 response.
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Maven users should use the following:
GroupID: org.jasig.cas
ArtifactId: cas-client-core
Version: 3.1.6
Type: jar
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1.3 CAS Community Calls
Recent community calls involved discussions on potential incubation projects including a .NET client, ClearPass, and more. The steering committee will be looking into properly labeling available clients.
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Community calls will be held on the second Wednesday of the month at 2PM Eastern, although we will confirm beforehand if there are discussion topics.
Scott Battaglia (Rutgers University), Lead Developer, Jasig Central Authentication Service
2.2 uPortal
2.2.1 uPortal Steering Committee Stakeholder Elections
The uPortal Steering Committee will be filling four stakeholder positions through elections held this Summer. If you are interested in serving as a community advocate for uPortal to help shape its growth, please nominate yourself using the instructions found elsewhere in this newsletter. The committee meets monthly by phone as well as in person at the conferences. This year the group will be undertaking an outreach initiative to proactively seek increased input from portal users, administrators, and managers. If you fell you can help speak as to how we might better address their needs, please consider running for a position on the committee.
2.2.2 uPortal 3.1 Technical Webinar
On May 21st, 2009, Unicon hosted a uPortal 3.1 Technical Webinar with Eric Dalquist, Developer at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and Lead Developer of the Jasig uPortal 3 project. This webinar was exceptionally popular in the community, with over 30 people in attendance.
This Technical Webinar educated viewers on: •
- What's new in uPortal 3.1
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- uPortal 3 features in production environments
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- Technical functionality of uPortal 3.1
To view the video of this webinar, please click the following link: http://www.unicon.net/node/1260
Unicon will be posting additional Upcoming Webinars shortly. Stay tuned for more Jasig related Webinars. To view Unicon's upcoming events, visit: http://www.unicon.net/company/news/events
2.2.3 Gettysburg Portals Conference Update
Jasig Executive Director Jonathan Markow and uPortal steering committee member Andrew Petro both had the pleasure of attending the Gettysburg College Portal 2009 conference. Jonathan gave an all-conference session on the future of the higher education portal and Andrew gave presentations on the portal as the user interface to a services-oriented architecture, on what's new in uPortal, and on open source options for single sign on (CAS and Shibboleth). The conference also featured a presentation on using Google Analytics and Jasig CAS with the uPortal-based Luminis IV portal product. Jasig's growing collection of free and open-source standards-compliant portlets were of interest both to uPortal adopters and to adopters of other portal platforms.
References:
Gettysburg College Portal 2009 http://cnav.gettysburg.edu/portal/portal09/
The Future of Higher Education Portals http://sites.google.com/site/portalconf2009/blog/jonathanmarkow-futureportal
3 Jasig Incubator
3.1 Notes from the Incubation Working Group
The Incubation Working Group (IWG) is reviewing 8 portlet projects in addition to Bedework, the ESUP Helpdesk, Open Registry and several smaller projects. This month, the IWG members will be elected and at least one new position filled. If you are interested in joining the IWG or know someone who is, please nominate them. In the next quarter, we will be establishing a quarterly review cycle and working with the board to adopt standard Jasig licensing practices. We hope to graduate our first fully sponsored project(s) in the Fall.
Susan Bramhall, on behalf of the Incubation Working Group
4 Around Jasig
4.1 Fluid Infusion 1.1 Release
The Fluid Project is very pleased to announce the release of Fluid Infusion 1.1
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Infusion 1.1 is available for download at: http://fluidproject.org/index.php/download-infusion
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- Updates our supported browsers to include the latest from Yahoo's A-grade browser list
see http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Browser+Support
- Provides the ability to create custom builds:
see http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Custom+Build
- Adds jQuery UI Themes for working with FSS themes
- Adds new and powerful decorators for the Renderer:
The "fluid" decorator instantiates any Fluid Infusion component bound to the markup
New support for removing arbitrary attributes and CSS classes
- Updates the Pager:
Improved handing of column sorting
Fixed persistence of focus
- Updates the Uploader:
User can manually switch to the standard non-Flash http file uploader
Uploader Browse button now respects DOM z-index in Flash 10
- Updates the User Interface Options:
Better cross browser support
Better keyboard and screen reader accessibility
- Changes some class names in the FSS and components:
see http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Upgrading+to+Infusion+1.1
- Changes some Framework API:
see http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Upgrading+to+Infusion+1.1
- Fixes many bugs
See the complete list here:
http://issues.fluidproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10203
If you're upgrading from Infusion 1.0, please see:
http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Upgrading+to+Infusion+1.1
If upgrading from an earlier version of Infusion you may want to refer to the following Upgrade guides:
http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Upgrading+to+Infusion+1.0
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An up-to-date listing of known issues with this release is available at:
http://issues.fluidproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10189
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Many thanks to everyone in the community for their hard work and support for this release!
Eli Cochran
manager of user experience design
ETS, UC Berkeley
4.2 Four Major Universities Select Unicon for Open Source Support of Sakai, uPortal, and CAS
"Unicon, Inc., a leading provider of software consulting services and open source solutions for the education market, today announced that California State University, Sacramento, the University of Rhode Island, the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and Virginia Technical University have joined the Unicon Cooperative Support Program for the open source Sakai, uPortal, or CAS (Centralized Authentication Service) platforms. Unicon's Cooperative Support Program provides member institutions with a predictable cost support structure for their open source solutions along with a dedicated team of expert development and technical specialists that deliver direct support and assistance. The program includes scalable support options and discounts when multiple platforms are selected. All development work and fixes performed by the team for individual institutions are contributed back and shared with the respective open source communities. Unicon currently has over thirty colleges and universities enrolled in its Cooperative Support Program."
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