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Jasig Newsletter - March 2009
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1 Upcoming Events
1.1 Jasig UK (April 22, 2009)
The next meeting of JASIG UK is scheduled for Wednesday, 22 April, 2009. This one-day event will be held at the National Science Learning Centre in York (http://www.sciencelearningcentres.org.uk/WebPortal.aspx?page=2).
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Jonathan Markow, Executive Director, Jasig
1.2 Open Repositories 2009 - Atlanta, Georgia (May 18-21, 2009)
"The 4th annual international Open Repositories Conference will be held May 18th - 21st, 2009 at the Georgia Institute of Technology Hotel and Conference Center and Global Learning Conference Center at Technology Square in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference will be hosted by the Georgia Tech Library and Information Center."
Source: https://or09.library.gatech.edu/
1.3 Portal 2009 - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (June 2-5, 2009)
"The featured keynote speaker at Portal2009 is Richard N. Katz, Vice President of EDUCAUSE, and author, co-author, or editor of dozens of books, monographs and articles on a variety of higher education, management, and technology topics. His book, Web Portals and Higher Education: Technologies to Make IT Personal, published in 2002 is still considered one of the definitive sources on portals in higher education. We expect portal 2009 to be the best conference to date, so get your presentation proposals in to share your portal stories with your colleagues from higher education institutions from around the globe.
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Source: http://cnav.gettysburg.edu/portal/portal09/index.cfm
2 Jasig Project Updates
2.1 Central Authentication Service (CAS)
2.1.1 Jasig CAS Server 3.3.x
Work continues on the upcoming 3.3.2 release. There are a few minor LDAP issues to continue working out, including collaboration with the PersonDirectory team for a required fix.
2.1.2 Jasig CAS Server 4.x
The Jasig CAS Server 4 is coming along. Development continues on the wizard for adding a service, such that a user can either supply a SAML Meta Data URL, or enter the information about a service through a wizard interface. This information will be saved to a database that the CAS server can later use to control access to the server. One Once this work is completed, work can continue on the SAML2 integration efforts. Javadocs and reports can be found here:
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In addition, Jasig CAS has applied for the Google Summer of Code. Stay tuned to see if we actually become accepted!
2.1.3 CAS Clients
Work continues on minor updates to the Jasig CAS Client for Java. Sandbox development on a new .NET client, similar to the Java client, has begun. This effort is being lead led by Princeton University and Virginia Tech.
2.1.4 Conference Updates
If you missed out on the recent Jasig Conference, you missed out on some excellent presentations on CAS4, CAS4 & Federation, a seminar on CAS3, and High Availability CAS. Most of those presentations are available online: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/7QleAQ
2.1.5 OpenRegistry Updates
Development continues on the OpenRegistry project. The team is currently working on the second use case: "Add A Person". Revisions to the data model continue, and the most recent revisions can be found here:
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To find out more, or join the mailing list, check out the Wiki space: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/OR/Home
2.1.6 Unicon Cooperative Support
Unicon announced its Cooperative Support Program for CAS. See the link below for the full announcement. http://www.unicon.net/node/1185
2.2 uPortal
2.2.1 uPortal 3.0.3 Release
Jasig is proud to announce the General Audience release of uPortal 3.0.3 GA This release is the result feedback from the significant interest and use of the previous 3.0 releases.
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This release is ready for general use. If you do find any issues please file them in the Jasig Issue Tracker.
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 Release Engineer,
2.2.2 uPortal 3.1.0 Release
Jasig is proud to announce the general audience release of uPortal 3.1.0. uPortal 3.1 is the recommended version with which to start a new uPortal deployment.
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Eric Dalquist (University of Wisconsin-Madison), uPortal 3 Release Engineer
2.2.3 uPortal Spring Conference Review
The numerous uPortal sessions and seminars were well received and attended at the recent 2009 Jasig Spring Conference. There was particular interest in the new Fluid/uPortal integration and uPortal 3.1 features.
2.2.4 Join the Merry Band
We recently created a page in our wiki listing smaller development projects that are great starting points for people interested in doing uPortal framework development. Maybe you have noticed that the core uPortal developers are very enthusiastic about what they do and seem to be having a lot of fun. Have you thought about wanting to contribute to the effort but were intimidated or didn't know where to begin? Check out our list of what we call Mentorable Projects. If you take one on, one of the uPortal core developers will be there to get you started and help you through the process. It is a great way to get started with someone by your side. You, too, can share in the accolades of the community!
3 Around Jasig
3.1 Jasig Incubation
I'm happy to announce that Jasig has now launched the process for accepting proposals for incubation. The goal of Jasig Project Incubation is to work with new or existing software projects to become officially sponsored Jasig Projects. The incubation working group has defined a process (see incubation process wiki) for accomplishing this goal and now have several proposals for portlets and new work under consideration. The Incubation Working Group (IWG) welcomes all to participate in the discussion of the incubating candidates. If you are interested, please join the incubation mailing list
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Susan Bramhall (Yale University), Incubation Working Group Chair
3.2 OpenEAI Project and Emory University Announce Training for OpenEAI Deployment and Administration
OpenEAI Enterprise Application Integration Training to be Held in April 2009 at Emory in Atlanta, Georgia
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For complete details and to register for this event, visit: https: //www.regonline.com/openeai-development or https://www.regonline.com/openeai-administration
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For a detailed course description visit: http://www.invivoit.com/live/training/OpenEaiAdministration.pdf
3.3 Jasig Widgets Portlet Project
As a result of some recent conversation in IRC, I've started a new portlet project in the Jasig sandbox. This project is intended to be a collection of small, general utility portlets.
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