Potential CAS BOFs at Jasig 2011

BoF: CAS and Shibboleth

Who:

  • Adopters of both CAS and Shibboleth in concert
  • Adopters of CAS with SAML2 and Federation aspirations
  • Adopters of Shibboleth with CAS flexible, pluggable, campus-local SSO experience goodness aspirations
  • CAS steering committee (or representatives thereof)
  • CAS developers
  • Anyone else who wants to be at this BoF

What:

  • Share and discuss who is doing what using CAS and Shibboleth in concert how and why
  • Gather requirements and expressions of interest from adopters of zero or one of these solutions with interest in adopting both in concert
  • CAS steerers and developers learn more about what is working, what is not working, and what is desired

BoF: CAS Modifiers Anonymous Meeting

Who:

  • Anyone ready to admit that he or she has locally modified CAS
  • CAS steerers and developers eager to learn about how CAS adopters have locally modified CAS
  • Anyone else who wants to be at this BoF

What:

  • Sharing of use cases, examples, demonstrations, ideally even source code of what modifications CAS adopters have performed locally
  • Feedback about the suitability of CAS designed-in extension points, how to improve these, what works, what doesn't
  • If we get bored or time allows, diving into CAS trunk interfaces to look at and have reactions to extension points and APIs
  • Coffee, donuts, and name tags suitable for conveying first names only may be available

BoF: Maintainers of Local CAS Implementations

Who:

  • Anyone who maintains a local CAS deployment
  • Anyone who would like to learn more about how others maintain a local CAS deployment
  • CAS steerers
  • CAS developers
  • Anyone else who wants to be at this BoF

What:

  • Discussion of what works, what's hard, what's problematic, in succeeding at running and maintaining a CAS deployment, including
    • Effective use of Source Control
    • How's that Maven Overlay approach working out?
    • Environments and Migration of Change Between Environments
    • Upgrades
    • Branding and Skinning
  • CAS steerers and developers soaking up feedback and experiences of how CAS is working in practice