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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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1.3 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)
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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
-Scott4.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
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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
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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
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