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JA-SIG Newsletter - January 2008
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As always, feel free to send your comments or content to newsletter at ja-sig dot org.
Mark RogersMark (University of Manitoba), Editor, JA-SIG Newsletter
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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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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
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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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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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