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JASIG NEWSLETTER - SEPTEMBER 2010
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JASIG FALL UNCONFERENCE
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- Register for the Jasig
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- Unconference!
- Portlet Development Training following the Jasig 2010 Unconference
JASIG PROJECTS
Central Authentication Service (CAS)
Client and Server Updates
- mod_auth_cas
- Jasig CAS Client for Java
- phpCAS
- .NET Client
- Server
Community News
- Community Call
- Regional Meetups
- Steering Committee Updates
uPortal
- September 2010 uPortal Community Call
- Steering Committee Update
Bedework
- Bedework-ing: Jasig Unconference
- Bedework-ing: Updated Bedework 3.6 Quickstart
- Bedework-ing: Bedework 3.7 milestone release
- Bedework-ing: DBMS
- Bedework-ing: Jasig Calendar
- Bedework-ing: Recent Bedework deployments
- Bedework-ing: Calendaring Industry News
UPCOMING COMMUNITY EVENTS
- 2010 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference - Anaheim, California (October 12-15, 2010)
- Fall 2010 Internet2 Member Meeting - Atlanta, Georgia (November 1-4, 2010)
- Kuali Days 2010 - San Diego, California (November 8-10, 2010)
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JASIG FALL UNCONFERENCE
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Register for the Jasig
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Unconference!
WHY ATTEND THE JASIG UNCONFERENCE?
An unconference is an event featuring spontaneously planned activities based on the interests and needs of the participants.
Attend this year's Unconference if you would like to:
- Meet with experts, newbies, and everyone in-between from a variety of open source communities
- Pursue a topic that's important to you and your institution
- Collaborate and compare best practices with your peers
- Get up to speed on uPortal, CAS, Bedework, IdM Topics, Portlets, OpenRegistry, HelpDesk, and other applications
- Bring home solutions that you can use
- Get help with your own code
- Work on integration projects
- Help improve our user manuals
- Record a demo of your work in our "Screencast Factory"
- Spend time in informal discussion about the subjects that are of most interest to you
- Decide for yourself what you'd like to gain from the event!
The costs are low. The learning opportunities are incomparable!
REGISTER NOW:
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Still haven't registered for the 2010 Jasig Unconference?
Special discount rates at the conference hotel end Oct 3, 2010!
The Unconference is shaping up to be another great event for open source developers.
Community developers for all our projects will be available to share, collaborate, review, teach, and learn!
uPortal
- Review the latest work on Jasig Portlets
- Learn about JSR 286 development
- Get help with local portlet development
- Bring your own portlet work for code review
- Learn about the initiative for Grouper/uPortal integration
- Get an early look at upcoming new features
- Learn about the ongoing uPortal documentation project
Bedework
- Preview the Bedework 3.7 release
- Learn about Restful Web Services for Calendaring
- Check out the upcoming personal calendaring features
- Get help with Bedework integration
CAS
- Speak with the experts
- Learn about new plans for multi-factor authentication
- Discuss the CAS roadmap
OpenRegistry
- Learn all about this incubated IdM application from project participants
HelpDesk
- Learn about this full-featured, incubated, open source application from the institution that just completed the first North American installation
IT Ecosystem
- Our newest Incubation project helps IT departments visually map the components of their infrastructure and view their dependencies--from networks to servers to applications, and more.
The Details:
DATES:
October 18-20, Unconference sessions
October 20-21, Developer/Implementer meetings
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MAIN UNCONFERENCE SITE: http://bit.ly/jasigunconf2010
ACCOMMODATIONS:
Harrah's Joliet
151 N. Joliet Street, Joliet, IL
Reservation Line: 800-Harrahs (1-800-427-7247)
Hotel Direct #: (815) 740-7800
Room rate: $88.99 plus tax per room. Includes breakfast voucher for breakfast in the Union Station Buffet.
Rooms must be booked by 10/3/2010 to get the guaranteed rate.
Reference group code "S1017JC" to get the special Jasig rate.
I CAN'T STOP MYSELF! WHAT SHOULD I DO NEXT?
If you're planning to join us, please do the following:
1. Visit and Add your Name on the Unconference Planning Site on the Jasig wiki. This is a great place to indicate your interests---what you'd like to discuss, learn, share or teach.
Wiki participants page: https://wiki.jasig.org/display/JCON/Fall+2010+Unconference+Participants
2. Register for the Unconference right here: https://www.concentra-cms.com/register/start.action?confId=46
3. Reserve a room at the Harrah's Joliet Hotel.
- Register by October 3rd, by calling the Harrah's reservation line at 800-Harrahs (1-800-427-7247).
- Reference group code "S1017JC" to get the Jasig rate of $88.99/night. Be sure to tell them you are staying at the Harrah's Joliet hotel.
- More info on the hotel can be found here: Fall 2010 Unconference Hotel Information - https://wiki.jasig.org/x/oYPEAQ
4. Make travel arrangements.
Tips are available here: Fall 2010 Unconference Travel Information - https://wiki.jasig.org/x/O4DNAQ
See you at the Jasig Unconference,
The Fall 2010 Unconference OrganizersSee you at the Jasig Unconference,
The Fall 2010 Unconference Organizers
Portlet Development Training following the Jasig 2010 Unconference
Unicon is pleased to offer a portlet development training class coinciding with the Jasig Unconference. This training class educates about the functionality and capabilities of Java portlets and how to develop them. The timing and location of this class gives conference attendees an opportunity to leverage their Jasig Unconference travel expenses.
When: Wednesday, October 20 - Friday, October 22, 2010
Where: University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL
Explore the functionality and capabilities of portlets.
The Portlet Development Training course serves as an introduction and guide to developing standards-compliant portlets. With this training course you will receive hands-on experience ranging from the building and deployment of portlets to techniques for organizing code in a clean, architecturally-sound way.
Join Andrew Wills, Software Architect at Unicon, as he guides you through this exclusive Portlet Development Training course. This training will transform your ability to successfully develop portlets.
Topics for this training course 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
- uPortal Roadmap
To learn more about Unicon's Portlet Development Training, click here: http://www.unicon.net/training/uportal/development
Act Fast!
Seating is limited, so register today.
Signing up is easy – Just click the register link below. Cost for this training course is $1,495.
Registration Link at: http://www.unicon.net/node/1411
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JASIG PROJECTS
Central Authentication Service (CAS)
Client and Server Updates
mod_auth_cas
- mod_auth_cas 1.0.9 release is right around the corner if there's more available testers
- current trunk has a number of new features including curl support (also needs testing)
- Looking for Windows testers so that the project is able to continue including Windows support
Jasig CAS Client for Java
- Marching towards a 3.1.12 release with improved JAAS support, and new Tomcat integration
- Forthcoming 3.2 release will require Java 5 and switch license to Apache 2
phpCAS
- phpCAS welcomes a new developer, Matthew Brooks, who will be assisting with future development.
- phpCAS recently released version 1.1.3 RC1 with seven bug fixes. Its stable enough for testing. Its targeted for an end of September release.
- phpCAS is actively working on version 1.2.0, with two major remaining tasks and an ETA of late November / early December.
.NET Client
- The .NET Client team plans to release their 1.0 client during the fall.
Server
- Hard at work on the 3.5 release by finalizing APIs and adding more SAML2 support
- Multi-Factor Calls continue almost weekly
- Working on UI enhancements to the example UI which should provide a good basis for deployers
Community News
Community Call
September was the first month the new format for the community call, and it was a great success. Howard Gilbert, from Yale University, presented on their experience with clustering CAS using JBoss Cache. The slides and audio of that call can be found here:
Regional Meetups
The CAS Steering Committee is looking to organize regional meetups with the following goals:
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Register your interest in a regional meet up: https://wiki.jasig.org/display/CAS/Regional+Meet+Ups
Steering Committee Updates
The Steering Committee is starting its new term. Eric Pierce, who did not run for re-election, ended his term. We wish him well, and expect him to continue to be involved in Jasig CAS. William Thompson (who many of you may remember from the earlier uPortal days) joins us. Andrew Petro and Marvin Addison return for another term. Marvin was also elected by his peers to be this term's chair.
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uPortal
- September 2010 uPortal Community Call
The uPortal Steering Committee held its most recent uPortal Community Call on Thursday September 30 at 11:30am EST. The agenda included:
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An archived version of the slides and audio will be available at http://www.slideshare.net/uportal. If you have ideas for future calls or would like to demonstrate some of your portal functionality, please email uportal-steering-committee at lists dot jasig dot org.
- Steering Committee Updates
The uPortal Steering Committee welcomes its newest elected member, Laura McCord from Southwestern University. Laura will continue to act as the uPortal documenation coordinator where she is successfully leading an effort to improve the uPortal user manual. She will be collaborating with others in the community at the Jasig Fall Unconference in addition to soliciting contributions via email. Welcome aboard, Laura!
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Bedework
- Bedework-ing: Jasig Unconference
Bedework developers Mike Douglass, Arlen Johnson, Barry Leibson, and hopefully, many of you, will be attending the Unconference. Two very timely topics which we could discuss at the Unconference are: the new features in the Bedework 3.7 milestone release, and the recent work in CalConnect and OASIS on a web services calendaring standard.
- Bedework-ing: Updated Bedework 3.6 Quickstart
On September 14th, a bug-fix release of the Bedework 3.6 quickstart (v.3.6.0.13) was made available for download at http://www.jasig.org/bedework/.
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- CalDAV updates
- Fixes to disallow adding of certain characters in calendar system (path) names
- Fix to sorting bug (events were not in chronological order) in public clients
- Fix to recurring events in which instances could be orphaned
- Addition of PostgreSQL config files
- New key generator service available from the JMX console
- Bedework-ing: Bedework 3.7 milestone release
We anticipate a Bedework 3.7 milestone release will be available prior to the Unconference. This release is largely a product of the collaboration between RPI and the University of California at Berkeley, and focuses on personal calendaring. Additionally, BW 3.7 will have much improved CardDAV and addressbook capabilities, and implements the (evolving) CalConnect/OASIS web service interface.
- Bedework-ing: DBMS
We announced on the BW lists that, PostgreSQL is now the recommended OSS DBMS for use with Bedework. The BW documentation will be updated to reflect this change away from MySQL. The postings to the list contain additional technical detail, and follow-up discussion.
- Bedework-ing: Jasig Calendar
Planning and development continue on the BW calendar for Jasig projects. We anticipate this new feature will be available from the Jasig web site prior to the Unconference.
- Bedework-ing: Recent Bedework deployments
We welcome Centenary College, http://calendar.centenarycollege.edu/cal, the Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, http://kalendar.ukf.sk, and the University of Notre Dame, http://calendar.nd.edu/cal/, to the Bedework family.
- Bedework-ing: Calendaring Industry News
"CalWS-Rest Restful Web Services Protocol for Calendaring" has been published as a CalConnect Proposal. This specification provides a RESTful web services protocol for calendaring operations, and was developed in conjunction with the OASIS WS-Calendar technical committee. The proposal has been submitted to OASIS for inclusion in the WS-Calendar specification. Mike Douglass served as editor for the CalConnect document, which is available at
Mike also is a member of the OASIS Web Services Calendar (WS-Calendar) TC
(http://wwwCD1011%20CalWS-Rest%20Restful%20Web%20Services%20Protocol%20for%20Calendaring.pdf
The OASIS WS-Calendar TC has been developing a web servicesspecification for calendaring. (This specification builds on CalConnectdocument just mentioned.) Bedework 3.7 will have an implementation ofthis still evolving standard.
WS-Calendar, for which Mike Douglass is co-editor, as well as theaccompanying "Conceptual Overview of WS-Calendar" are now available for public review and comment. The full OASIS announcement, including howto participate in the public review, can be found at:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ws-calendar), and serves as co-editor of the OASIS "WS-Calendar" standard, currently under development.archives/ws-calendar/201009/msg00045.html
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