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JA-SIG Newsletter - January 2008
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4 Community News and Events
4.1 JA-SIG Named in Top 100 Information Content Companies
4.2 Unicon Adds Ten New uPortal Projects at Universities & Colleges in Q3/Q4 of 2007
4.3 JA-SIG Spring Conference 2008 - Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way
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1 Welcome
1.1 Editor's Message
Welcome to the January 2008 issue of the JA-SIG Newsletter.
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As always, feel free to send your comments or content to newsletter at ja-sig dot org.
Mark Rogers
Mark (University of Manitoba), Editor, JA-SIG Newsletter
2 Call for Volunteers
2.1 Volunteers Wanted for uPortal Panel Presentation
Are you planning to attend the Gettysburg College "Portals 2008" conference, June 3 - June 6? I was there last year and found the content to be very stimulating. Topics ranged across the board from portal selection, to planning, to implementation. A variety of technical and non-technical attendees presented on a wide range of subjects focusing on a number of portal products. This year's project site is located at https://biz.gettysburg.edu/it/portal08/index.cfm .
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Which brings me to this request for volunteers. If you would like to join me on the panel, please email me off-list (jjmarkow at ja-sig dot org) with a small paragraph of background information. I will select from the responses based on the variety of experiences represented, e.g., we implemented it ourselves, we relied heavily on a vendor, we are a large institution, a small one, etc.
The deadline for proposals is the end of this month, so, if you are interested, please let me hear from you soon.
Thanks!
Jonathan Markow
3 Project Updates
3.1 Central Authentication Service (CAS)
3.1.1 CAS Server
The CAS team continues to work on the upcoming CAS 3.1.2 release. It will include bug fixes and improvements of various components including the Google Apps support. New features will include an auditing and statistics component based on the open-source Inspektr package developed by Rutgers University, as well as support for delegating authentication to another CAS server. The team is targetting an RC for the end of the month/beginning of February.
3.1.2 CAS Clients
The mod_auth_cas team continues to release updates offering enhancements and bug fixes. Its quickly becoming the Apache-module of choice of CAS deployers. The CAS Client for Java team is currently working with the Soulwing client team to merge our efforts to reduce maintenance and confusion as well as put out more quality releases.
3.1.3 Upcoming JA-SIG Conference
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
3.2 uPortal
3.2.1 uPortal 3.0.0-M5 Released
JA-SIG is proud to announce the release of uPortal 3.0.0 Milestone 5. This is the first release in the uPortal 3.0.0 line based on the core uPortal codebase. The release includes a switch to Maven 2 for the build management system, a unified Spring configuration, Pluto 1.1 for portlet rendering and the Cernunnos based import/export tools.
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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
4 Community News and Events
4.1 JA-SIG Named in Top 100 Information Content Companies
"eContent Magazine named JA-SIG as one of the Top 100 in the seventh annual list of companies "that matter most in the digital content industry." Each year in the December issue eContent magazine selects the top companies in 12 categories from classification and taxonomy to social media with a heavy emphasis on content creation, delivery, management, and services and search technologies.
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."
You can find the 2007 EContent 100 List at: http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=40187
4.2 Unicon Adds Ten New uPortal Projects at Universities & Colleges in Q3/Q4 of 2007
Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals, applications, and professional services for academic institutions, today announced that it has added ten new colleges and universities as uPortal customers during the second half of 2007.
See the full release at: http://www.unicon.net/node/901
or at: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS191668+08-Jan-2008+BW20080108
4.3 JA-SIG Spring Conference 2008 - Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way
April 27-30, 2008
Crowne Plaza Hotel, St. Paul, MN, USA
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Source: JA-SIG Spring Conference 2008 Web Site - http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html
5 Other Events and Activities
5.1 EclipseCon 2008 (March 17-20, 2008)
Place: Santa Clara, California
"EclipseCon is the premier technical and user conference focusing on the power of the Eclipse platform. From implementers to users, and everyone in between, if you are using, building, or considering Eclipse, EclipseCon is the conference you need to attend."
Source: EclipseCon 2008 Web Site - http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/
5.2 SunGard Summit 2008: Performance Matters (April 13-16, 2008)
Place: Anaheim, California
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Source: Sungard Summit 2008 Web Site - http://www.sungardsummit.com/summit2008/
5.3 2008 JavaOne Conference (May 6-9, 2008)
Place: The Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
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Source: 2008 JavaOne Conference Web Site - http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/index.jsp
5.4 portal 2008: measurement & assessment (June 3-6, 2008)
Place: Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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For more information, see https://biz.gettysburg.edu/it/portal08/index.cfm
5.5 EDUCAUSE 2008 (October 28-31, 2008)
"Mark your calendar for the premier information technology event in higher education, EDUCAUSE 2008, October 28-31 in Orlando, Florida. The program 'Interaction, Ideas, Inspiration' will include preconference seminars; track and poster sessions; small group meetings; and corporate exhibits, presentations, and workshops. ... "
Source: EDUCAUSE 2008 Web Site - http://www.educause.edu/e08
6 From the Blogosphere
6.1 Site, site, everywhere a site ...
(With apologies to the Five Man Electrical Band ...)
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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