Pre-Draft August Newsletter
JA-SIG Newsletter - August 2008
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1 Upcoming Events
1.1 Six Weeks Until the Unconference
1.2 Fall 2008 Internet2 Member Meeting (October 13-16, 2008)
1.3 EDUCAUSE 2008 - Orlando, Florida (October 28-31, 2008)
2 JA-SIG Project Updates
2.1 Central Authentication Service (CAS)
2.1.1 Recent CAS Deployers
2.1.2 Governance Model Goes Before Board of Directors
2.1.3 Steering Committee Nominations
2.1.4 CAS Roadmap and Planning
2.1.5 CAS 3.3 Final
2.1.6 phpCAS Client 1.0 Final
2.1.7 Call for Development Team
2.2 uPortal
2.2.1 uPortal Update
3 Around JA-SIG
3.1 The Wiki Dashboard
3.2 Recommended Reading (from and for the JA-SIG community)
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Upcoming Events
1.1 Six Weeks Until the Unconference
Registration is open for the JA-SIG Fall 2008 Unconference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and people are signing up!
You can register online at https://www.concentra-cms.com/register/start.action?confId=34 and also . Also sign up on the conference wiki at http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/DRTP.
Check out what others want to discuss and add your own items of interest. Here are just some of the topics people have said they would like to talk about:
- CAS and uPortal roadmap planning: Where do we go from here?
- Production experiences
- Fluid component integration
- Using Spring Web Flow 2 for Administrative UIs
- Portal and portlet health monitoring and life-cycle management
- Infrastructure: High availability, ESB, SOA
- uPortal 3 implementation workshop: We'll be discussing best practices, performance, operational issues, load testing, etc.. We'll share stories, experiences, solutions.
- Web analytics
- Continuous integration
It's your unconference! We plan the final agenda onsite!
The unconference itself is October 6-8 while October 9-10 is set aside as a time for developers to work on implementing ideas inspired from discussions had at the unconference. It is also an opportunity to work along side other developers in the JA-SIG community. Anyone can stay for these two days at no additional cost. If you have an idea that you would like to collaborate on during these two work days, please feel free to list it at http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/LB7P.See you in person, in October!
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Fun Stuff at the Madison Unconference:
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- For the runners among us, Jim Helwig has posted a list of very attractive looking routes.
- For the cyclists, Allison Bloodworth has suggested a bicycle tour.
- And we'll certainly have the usual fascinating dining opportunities for casual dinner groups.
Have a look at the activities list and contribute your ideas for get-togethers.
See you in person, in October!
1.2 Fall 2008 Internet2 Member Meeting (October 13-16, 2008)
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Source: EDUCAUSE 2008 Web Site - http://www.educause.edu/e08
2 JA-SIG Project Updates
2.1 CAS
2.1.1 Recent CAS Deployers
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If you're not on the list and would like to be, contact ~battags ScottS
2.1.2 Governance Model Goes Before Board of Directors
The CAS community has been hard at work defining and refining their version of a steering committee. The steering committee is modeled after the uPortal Steering Committee (with some minor twists!). The governance model goes before the August board meeting.
2.1.3 Steering Committee Nominations
In parallel with getting approval from the JASIG JA-SIG Board for the JASIG JA-SIG CAS Steering Committee, we've put out a request for nominations (including self-nominations) for the JASIG CAS Steering Committee. Submit your bio, vision, goals, experience, etc. to Scott Battaglia. The JASIG JA-SIG membership will vote on the nominees to be included in the JASIG JA-SIG CAS Steering Committee. The goal is to have this in place before the October UnConference
2.1.4 CAS Roadmap and Planning
While the steering committee gets underway, a group of CAS developers, deployers, and other interested parties have started to have talks about the future of CAS. These conversations are open to everyone and the meeting notes are freely available. The last meeting notes are available here:
http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CAS/2008-0708-2515+Conference+Call
This group of people will be holding another another conference call on Friday, August 15th from 1 to 2 pmconference call sometime around the second week of September. If you're interested in joining, please contact ~battags ScottS or ~benno Benn Oshrin
We encourage you to contribute however you can to this process, whether its on-list, on the phone, or via the wiki!
2.1.5 CAS 3.3 Final
We're pleased to announce the final release of CAS Server 3.3. CAS Server 3.3 includes numerous bug fixes, enhancements, and new features including:
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Some information on upgrading from CAS 3.2 to 3.3 can be found here:
http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASUM/Upgrading
2.1.6 phpCAS Client 1.0 Final
The 1.0 release of the phpCAS client is now out with some new features including single sign out and being able to be PEAR-installable. Congrats to Pascal Aubry, Julien Marchal and Brett Bieber on the release! You can find out more info here: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASC/phpCAS
2.1.7 Call for Development Team
While work continues on the 3.3 branch and discussions are still ongoing about the future CAS releases, we're pretty sure there will be one! Thus we're starting to gather developers, translators, UI experts, business analysts, etc. to start putting together design guidelines, rules, and documentation. Check out: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CAS/CAS4+Development If you're interested please contact ~battags ScottS
2.2 uPortal
uPortal Update
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The uPortal Steering Committee is working with Erik Olsson of UC Irvine on making their Announcements Portlet an official JASIG JA-SIG sandbox project. Currently it is available at http://wikiwww.vcsa.uci.edu/bin/view/Portal/AnnouncementsPortletja-sig.org/wiki/display/PLT/Announcements+Portlet. As more portlets become available through JASIGJA-SIG, we would like to bundle them with uPortal.
This month the uPortal steering committee responded to a request for fact-checking by CMS Watch of a draft of the uPortal chapter of their proprietary Enterprise Portals report. Thanks are due to Colin Clark, Jonathan Markow, and Andrew Petro for collaboration on that response. The Enterprise Portals Report is available from CMS Watch for a fee. The committee is presently working to refactor its responses to the CMS Watch draft into improvements to the uPortal documentation, primarily in the uPortal manual, alongside other documentation improvements. The uPortal documentation is free and publicly available.
uPortal 3.1.0-M1 was released on August 6th. This is a Milestone build and should be considered a developer preview. It includes new features such as database backed event logging, identity and attribute swapper administrative portlets, significant performance improvements along with over 70 other bug fixes and enhancements. 3.1.0-M1 can be downloaded from the all releases page and release notes are available in the wiki.
Contributed by: The uPortal Steering Committee
3 Around JA-SIG
3.1 The Wiki Dashboard
One of the best ways to keep up with the current activity in the JA-SIG community is to watch the "Dashboard". We are referring here to the front-facing page on the JA-SIG wiki, found at: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/dashboard.action . You will find not only in-depth information on all of the JA-SIG projects, but also a listing (on the right-hand side of the page) of the most recently updated wiki pages.
Be sure to visit often for all the latest and greatest things happening in JA-SIG.
3.2 Recommended Reading (from and for the JA-SIG community)
"These are books of interest that members of the JA-SIG community recommend you consider reading." (With thanks to Jim Helwig for compiling it for the wiki.) Feel free to add your own reading recommendations to the list!
http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/Recommend+Reading
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