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JA-SIG Newsletter - October 2008
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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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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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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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