Jasig Newsletter - May 2009
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1 Upcoming Events
1.1 Portal 2009 - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (June 2-5, 2009)
1.2 Advanced CAMP: Identity Services Summit For Higher Ed Open/Community-Source Projects, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (June 18-19, 2009)
1.3 10th Sakai Conference - Cambridge, Massachusetts (July 8-10, 2009)
1.4 Kuali Days VIII Announced! - San Antonio, Texas (November 17 and 18, 2009)
2 Jasig Project Updates
2.1 Central Authentication Service (CAS)
2.1.1 Jasig CAS Client for Java 3.1.6
2.1.2 CAS Server 3.3.3 - Coming Soon!
2.2 uPortal
2.2.1 uPortal 3.1.1 Release
2.2.2 uPortal 3.0.4 Release
2.2.3 Call for Portlet Release Engineer
2.2.4 Steering Committee Elections
2.2.5 Portal Administrative Portlet
3 Around Jasig
3.1 Identity Services Summit
3.2 University of Georgia Launches MyUGA Student Portal on uPortal 3 Open Source Platform
3.3 Introducing Duraspace
3.4 Jasig Mailing List Service Interruption
4 Tech Corner
4.1 uPortal Screencasts
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1 Upcoming Events
1.1 Portal 2009 - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (June 2-5, 2009)
"The featured keynote speaker at Portal2009 is Richard N. Katz, Vice President of EDUCAUSE, and author, co-author, or editor of dozens of books, monographs and articles on a variety of higher education, management, and technology topics. His book, Web Portals and Higher Education: Technologies to Make IT Personal, published in 2002 is still considered one of the definitive sources on portals in higher education. We expect portal 2009 to be the best conference to date, so get your presentation proposals in to share your portal stories with your colleagues from higher education institutions from around the globe.
The theme for the conference, portal2009: users uses usability, is meant to reflect the idea that portals have many definitions, and the different portals have different audiences (users), tools (uses) and interfaces (usability). The more everyone knows about the differences, the more people can continue to evolve their institution's portal into a more useful commodity."
Source: http://cnav.gettysburg.edu/portal/portal09/index.cfm
1.2 Advanced CAMP: Identity Services Summit For Higher Ed Open/Community-Source Projects, Philadelphia, PA (June 18-19, 2009)
"Are you working with one or more open-source or community-source projects as an architect, a developer, or a deployer? Want to collaborate with the broader community to make sense of the identity and access management (IAM) space to ensure that delivered software will be more secure, integratable, consistent, and usable? Join your colleagues at the upcoming Advanced CAMP: Identity Services Summit for Higher Ed Open/Community-Source Projects."
For further information, visit the "Source" link below.
Source: http://www.jasig.org/advanced-camp-identity-services-summit-h
1.3 10th Sakai Conference - Cambridge, Massachusetts (July 8-10, 2009)
The 10th Sakai Conference will be taking place in beautiful Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sakai conferences are high-energy events that bring together users and developers of Sakai to talk about past successes and challenges and to peer into the future for the Sakai product and community. It's an essential event if you're using or considering using the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment.
Visit the conference website for information on conference registration, hotel reservations, and submitting proposals for the 10th Sakai Conference: https://educonference.com/sakai/boston/index.php
Main Conference Dates: Wednesday, July 8 - Friday, July 10
Pre-conference sessions: Tuesday, July 7
The conference hotel will be the Hyatt Cambridge. The room rate is $199/night and includes internet access. The cutoff date for this room rate will be June 5.
Michael Korcuska
Executive Director, Sakai Foundation
1.4 Kuali Days VIII Announced! - San Antonio, Texas (November 17 and 18, 2009)
"The Kuali Foundation is pleased to announce the dates and location for the Kuali Days VIII conference. Kuali Days VIII will be held on November 17 and 18, 2009 in San Antonio, TX. In addition to the Kuali Days VIII conference event, there will be pre-conference sessions, community meetings, and other networking activities.
Once again, there will be multiple tracks available to attendees. The Program Chair and Track Chairs are working diligently on putting together another excellent program. We are doing our best to hold down costs this year to address budget constraints, so we can maximize the ability for community members, project partners, and potential members to attend this event."
Source: kuali.org - http://www.kuali.org/news/2009/05142009.html
2 Jasig Project Updates
2.1 Central Authentication Service (CAS)
2.1.1 Jasig CAS Client for Java 3.1.6
Dear CAS Community,
We're pleased to announce the release of the Jasig CAS Client for Java 3.1.6. This release includes a number of enhancements and bug fixes, and all users are encouraged to upgrade to it:
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Override init(FilterConfig) method for OSGI environments
- Reduce the scariness of the JNDI lookup warning for configuration
- Improved DEBUG logging of SingleSignOutHttpSessionListener
- Include Javadoc and Source JARs in Central Maven Repository
BUG FIXES:
- Cleaned up Thread in Proxy Storage so that classloader doesn't leak on restart
- Javadoc incorrect for serverName property
- SAML1.1 Ticket Validator does not respect renew=true
- Potential ConcurrentModificationException in clean up thread
Thanks to Brad Cupit from LSU for identifying and helping resolve the classloader leak on restart.
The distribution can be downloaded from: http://www.ja-sig.org/downloads/cas-clients/cas-client-3.1.6-release.tar.gz http://www.ja-sig.org/downloads/cas-clients/cas-client-3.1.6-release.zip
Within the next few days, it should be available via the Central Maven Repository (we have to wait until they sync with the Spring Security repository).
This release is API compatible with the previous 3.1.x branch releases.
Thanks
-Scott
2.1.2 CAS Server 3.3.3 - Coming Soon!
Watch for a new release of CAS Server (3.3.3). It could possibly be out by week's end.
Scott Battaglia (Rutgers University), Lead Developer, Jasig Central Authentication Service
2.2 uPortal
2.2.1 uPortal 3.1.1 Release
Jasig is proud to announce the General Audience release of uPortal 3.1.1 GA. This release is the result feedback from the significant interest and use of the previous 3.1.0 release. This release includes over 28 new features and fixes. Full release notes are available along with a uPortal 3.1 release overview on the 3.1.1 Release page on the Jasig wiki.
Downloads are available from: http://www.jasig.org/uportal/download/uportal-311
Release notes are available at: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/3.1.1
uPortal 3.1 Manual: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPM31
This release is ready for general use. If you do find any issues please file them in the Jasig Issue Tracker
I want to thank everyone who contributed to the development both directly and in-directly. Having this developer community available for both code and design insight has been invaluable.
uPortal 3 Release Engineer,
-Eric Dalquist
2.2.2 uPortal 3.0.4 Release
Jasig is proud to announce the General Audience release of uPortal 3.0.4 GA. This release is the result feedback from the significant interest and use of the previous 3.0 releases. This release includes over 18 new features and fixes. Full release notes are available along with a uPortal 3.0 release overview on the 3.0.4 Release page on the Jasig wiki.
Source and Quick Start downloads are available on the uPortal Downloads page. This release is ready for general use. If you do find any issues please file them in the Jasig Issue Tracker
I want to thank everyone who contributed to the development both directly and in-directly. Having this developer community available for both code and design insight has been invaluable.
uPortal 3 Release Engineer,
-Eric Dalquist
2.2.3 Call for Portlet Release Engineer
The Incubation Working Group recently accepted over a dozen portlets into the incubation process. The uPortal Steering Committee is looking for a volunteer to serve as a portlet release engineer. This person will help coordinate the testing and release of the portlets. They would work in cooperation with the lead portlet developers. If you are interested in taking on this role, please contact the steering committee at uportal-steering-committee@lists.ja-sig.org.
2.2.4 Steering Committee Elections
The uPortal Steering Committee serves as the governing body responsible for the strategic direction and operational oversight of the uPortal project. The committee acts as an advocate for the project and helps to ensure its continued health and growth. Later this Spring the Jasig membership will elect individuals to serve as stakeholder representatives on the committee. As committee members, these individuals will help guide the ongoing development and adoption of uPortal and its bundled portlets. They help gather requirements, monitor progress and work on other initiatives that help improve uPortal and the community. You can find more information about the committee at http://www.jasig.org/uportal/steering-committee. We are particularly interested in having more end-user representation on the steering committee - you don't have to be overly technical to serve! Stay tuned for more information on the nomination process.
2.2.5 Portal Administrative Portlet
Unicon's Cooperative Support team continues to work on UP-2047 (http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/browse/UP-2047), the creation of a portal administration portlet; please check out the working initial version of the new portlet in the uPortal trunk. Since the last contribution, they have fixed several bugs, integrated features added to CChannelManager as of the 3.1 release, and added support for internationalization. Currently, they are laying the back-end groundwork for the new portlet lifecycle changes described at http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/Portlet+Lifecycle. This work includes modernizing the channel persistence implementation to use JPA and Hibernate, which should allow us to eliminate a large amount of legacy code. Watch the email list for updates and contributions!
3 Around Jasig
3.1 Identity Services Summit
Jasig is co-sponsoring an "Identity Services Summit for Higher Ed Open/Community-Source Projects" at the Internet2/EDUCAUSE annual ACAMP event in Philadelphia on June 18th and 19th.
At this "Advanced CAMP" architects, developers, and deployers of higher ed open/community-source software projects will explore Identity & Access Management issues and challenges. Participants will work together to identify common approaches to creating a more coherent IAM environment across these projects.
We invite you to join us for this "meeting of the minds" in Philadelphia next month.
For information about program, registration, and hotel accommodations, visit http://net.educause.edu/content.asp?Section_ID=434
Jonathan Markow
Executive Director
3.2 University of Georgia Launches MyUGA Student Portal on uPortal 3 Open Source Platform
"Phoenix, AZ - May 13, 2009 —"Unicon, Inc., a leading provider of software consulting services for the education market, congratulates the University of Georgia for the successful launch of its next generation MyUGA Web site based on the open source uPortal 3 platform. MyUGA is a single web site designed primarily for students and providing aggregated access to offer a diverse set of resources and Web-based services such as electronic mail, course information, student services news, announcements, events, campus maps, etc. Unicon, a Jasig Approved uPortal Solutions Provider, worked closely with the university's IT staff for the portal's planning, configuration, implementation, branding, and training. Representatives from the University of Georgia and Unicon will jointly present a seminar featuring real-world examples of their experiences titled, "MyUGA: Open Source uPortal Implementation at University of Georgia", at the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2009 on June 2, 2009. More information on the conference, visit: http://net.educause.edu/serc09.
For full details on this effort, visit the Unicon link at: http://www.unicon.net/node/1240
3.3 Introducing Duraspace
"Fedora Commons and the DSpace Foundation, two of the largest providers of open source software for managing and providing access to digital content, are joining their organizations to pursue a common mission. Jointly, they will provide leadership and innovation in open source technologies for global communities who manage, preserve, and provide access to digital content.
The joined organization, named "DuraSpace," will sustain and grow its flagship repository platforms - Fedora and DSpace. DuraSpace will also expand its portfolio by offering new technologies and services that respond to the dynamic environment of the Web and to new requirements from existing and future users. DuraSpace will focus on supporting existing communities and will also engage a larger and more diverse group of stakeholders in support of its not-for-profit mission."
For further details, visit the new Duraspace web site at : http://duraspace.org
Source: http://duraspace.org
3.4 Jasig Mailing List Service Interruption
The list server used for the Jasig mailing lists will undergo maintenance from 7:00-9:00 AM CDT on Monday, June 1st. Mail sent to the lists during this time will be held for delivery until after the maintenance is complete.
4 Tech Corner
4.1 uPortal Screencasts
uPortal screencasts are created by community members for the purpose of giving a guided tour of their institution's portal, showing off a locally developed portlet that might be of interest to others, or offering training in a particular skill.
Interested in adding your own screencast to the mix? Send an email to the uPortal Steering Committee (uportal-steering-committee at lists.ja-sig.org) for more information.
Visit the screencast web page for further details: http://www.jasig.org/uportal/community/uportal-screencasts
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Jasig Newsletter - May 2009
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