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JA-SIG Newsletter - August 2008
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2.1 Central Authentication Service (CAS)
2.1.1 Recent CAS Deployers
2.1.2 Governance Model Goes Before Board of Directors
2.1.3 Steering Committee Nominations
2.1.4 CAS Roadmap and Planning
2.1.5 CAS 3.3 Final
2.1.6 phpCAS Client 1.0 Final
2.1.7 Call for Development Team
2.2 uPortal
2.2.1 uPortal Update
3 Around JA-SIG
3.1 Recent The Wiki Space UpdatesDashboard
3.2 Recommended Reading (from and for the JA-SIG community)
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- For the runners among us, Jim Helwig has posted a list of very attractive looking routes.
- For the cyclists, Allison Bloodworth has suggested a bicycle tour.
- And we'll certainly have the usual fascinating dining opportunities for casual dinner groups.
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If you're not on the list and would like to be, contact ~battags ScottS
2.1.2 Governance Model Goes Before Board of Directors
The CAS community has been hard at work defining and refining their version of a steering committee. The steering committee is modeled after the uPortal Steering Committee (with some minor twists!). The governance model goes before the August board meeting.
2.1.3 Steering Committee Nominations
In parallel with getting approval from the JA-SIG Board for the JA-SIG CAS Steering Committee, we've put out a request for nominations (including self-nominations) for the JASIG CAS Steering Committee. Submit your bio, vision, goals, experience, etc. to Scott Battaglia. The JA-SIG membership will vote on the nominees to be included in the JA-SIG CAS Steering Committee. The goal is to have this in place before the October UnConference
2.1.4 CAS Roadmap and Planning
While the steering committee gets underway, a group of CAS developers, deployers, and other interested parties have started to have talks about the future of CAS. These conversations are open to everyone and the meeting notes are freely available. The last meeting notes are available here:
http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CAS/2008-0708-2515+Conference+Call
This group of people will be holding another another conference call on Friday, August 15th from 1 to 2 pmsometime around the second week of September. If you're interested in joining, please contact ~battags ScottS or ~benno Benn Oshrin
We encourage you to contribute however you can to this process, whether its on-list, on the phone, or via the wiki!
2.1.5 CAS 3.3 Final
We're pleased to announce the final release of CAS Server 3.3. CAS Server 3.3 includes numerous bug fixes, enhancements, and new features including:
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Some information on upgrading from CAS 3.2 to 3.3 can be found here:
http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASUM/Upgrading
2.1.6 phpCAS Client 1.0 Final
The 1.0 release of the phpCAS client is now out with some new features including single sign out and being able to be PEAR-installable. Congrats to Pascal Aubry, Julien Marchal and Brett Bieber on the release! You can find out more info here: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASC/phpCAS
2.1.7 Call for Development Team
While work continues on the 3.3 branch and discussions are still ongoing about the future CAS releases, we're pretty sure there will be one! Thus we're starting to gather developers, translators, UI experts, business analysts, etc. to start putting together design guidelines, rules, and documentation. Check out: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CAS/CAS4+Development If you're interested please contact ~battags ScottS
2.2 uPortal
uPortal Update
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Contributed by: The uPortal Steering Committee
3 Around JA-SIG
3.1
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The Wiki
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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.
Here is just a small sampling of some of the latest updates on the JA-SIG wiki.
Shibboleth - http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPM30/03+Shibboleth
CASifying Applications - http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CAS/CASifying+Applications
Perl Client (for CAS) - http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASC/Perl+Client
Deployed uPortals - http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/Deployed+uPortals
Fall Unconference Participants - http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JCON/Fall+2008+Unconference+Participants
RESTful API (CAS) - http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASUM/RESTful+API
Be sure to visit often for all the latest and greatest things happening in JA-SIG.
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