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"Higher Education Open Source Communities - Working Together"
March 1-4, 2009
Dallas, Texas, USA
"The JA-SIG Spring 2009 Conference will provide an unprecedented opportunity to meet and learn from each other. We're hoping to see you there!"
Spring Conference - Supplementary Seminars: Following the great success of last year's conference, JA-SIG (home of uPortal and CAS) is partnering with DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Kuali, Internet2, and Sakai to bring you a diverse and enriching conference program and seminar lineup.
- Keynote speeches by James Hilton, Christian Crumlish, and Brewster Kahle!
- Conference events run Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th
- Supplementary seminars are scheduled all day Sunday and Wednesday afternoon
- A BarCamp is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon
- Developer meetings will follow on Thursday and Friday
Early registration discounts end January 30, 2009. Register now at http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/seminarsregistration.html .
Join us to learn more about community source projects and technology trends, share ideas and collaborate with your peers. See you in Dallas in March!
Spring Conference Home: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/index.html
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Are you going to Spring Conference 2009 in Dallas ("Higher Education Open Source Communities - Working Together")? Consider registrating registering for a Supplementary Seminar. Offerings include "Migrating to uPortal 3", "Skinning uPortal 3", and "Getting Started with uPortal". See the wiki page for more details: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/seminars.html
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uPortal 3.0 Platform Training Overview
This course serves as an introduction and guide to portals, portlets, and uPortal and encompasses best practices for leveraging the open-source uPortal software and its community. Topics include: uPortal Overview, Authentication and Authorization, Groups and Permissions Framework, Aggregated and Template Layouts, Administrative Channels, Permissions Manager, Accessing User Attributes and Information and more.
Portlet Development Training Overview
This course serves as an introduction and guide to developing standards-compliant portlets and covers items from the Portlet API and the building and deployment of portlets to techniques for organizing code in a clean architecturally-sound way. uPortal is used as the portal platform during the course, but the portlet development skills apply to any JSR 168 compliant platform. Topics include: Portlet Specification Overview, Apache Pluto Overview, Portlet API, Obtaining 3rd-party Portlets, Portlet Installation, Development Environment, Use of Eclipse IDE, Hello World Portlet, Advanced Portlet Applications, Portlet Security, Debugging Portlets, Using WSRP, and uPortal Roadmap.
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