Sign up to be a facilitator!
We would love to have your help facilitating the many great sessions at the conference. The general guidelines are listed below to give you a sense of the facilitator responsibilities. Once the conference program has been decided, the conference grid will be listed below. At that time you will be able to add your name next to the Facilitator: label for the sessions you wish to facilitate. Jenn and Debbie will be available at the registration desk to answer any questions you may have regarding facilitating.
And thanks a lot for your help!
Session Facilitator Guidelines
In the session folder you will find:
Presenter Agreement Form for the speaker(s)
Evaluation forms
Warning markers of 2, 5, and 10 minutes
Speaker Biographical info, if available
- Get biographical information to introduce speaker, which should be included in the session folder you will pick up at the conference registration desk.
- Discuss with the presenter if they wish to address questions during or after their presentation.
- Give the Conference Agreement Form to the speaker. Please have the speaker fill out the form and return it to you before the conclusion of the session.
- Hand an evaluation form to each attendee.
- Let the audience know when questions are allowed.
- Please take Starting and Ending Attendance.
- Sit in a location where the speaker can see you with the warning cards that will show when time is almost up.
- After the presentation, publicly thank the speaker and remind the audience to turn in their evaluation form before they leave the session.
- Return the folder with evaluation sheets and signed Speaker Agreement Form to the Registration Desk.
Schedule at a Glance for Facilitator Assignments
This page contains the final schedule for facilitator assignments. Enter the name for each facilitator in the session cells. Use colour to make them stand out.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Time |
Event |
Event |
Event |
Event |
Event |
07:30AM-7:30PM |
Registration |
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08:30AM-12:00PM |
Half day Seminar
Introduction to the Fedora Repository
Speaker: Chris Wilper Facilitator not required |
Half day Seminar
Installing, Configuring, and Customizing the Kuali Financial System
Speaker: Ailish Byrne Facilitator not required |
Half day Seminar
Spring Portlet MVC - Intro
Speaker: Chris Holdorph Facilitator not required |
Half day Seminar
Upgrading Your DSpace Installation from 1.4 to 1.5
Speaker: Mark Diggory Facilitator not required |
Half day Seminar
Implementing CAS: From Download to Deployment
Speaker: Adam Rybicki
 Facilitator not required |
12:00PM-1:00PM |
Lunch for Seminar Attendees |
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1:00PM-4:30PM |
Half day Seminar
Writing Fearless Javascript for Portlets, Widgets, and Portals
Speaker: Colin Clark
 Facilitator not required |
Half day Seminar
uPortal Migration - Juggling Environments and Software Upgrades
Speaker: Andrew Wills
 Facilitator not required |
Half day Seminar
Introduction to Identity for Developers
Speaker: Tom Barton
 Facilitator not required |
Half day Seminar
Spring Portlet MVC - Advanced
Speaker: John Lewis
 Facilitator not required |
Half day Seminar
Customizing DSpace using Manakin - Your Site, Your Design
Speaker: Mark Diggory
 Facilitator not required |
6:00PM-8:00PM |
Welcome Reception |
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Monday, April 28, 2008
Time |
Event |
Event |
Event |
Event |
Event |
07:00AM-6:00PM |
Registration |
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07:30AM-8:30AM |
Breakfast |
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08:30AM-9:45AM |
Opening Keynote Presentation
Community Source in Higher Education: Leaders' Panel
Speaker: Jonathan Markow Facilitator: Aaron |
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09:45AM-10:15AM |
Refreshment Break |
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10:15AM-11:15AM |
Integration and Deployment
Using Enterprise Group Management to Enable Unified Application Access
Speaker: Klara Jelinkova Facilitator: Howard Gilbert |
Design and Development
Using Fedora to Manage Student Documents
Speaker: Christopher Brown Facilitator: Chris Awre |
Multiple Audiences/General Information
uPortal 3: What's New
Speaker: Eric Dalquist Facilitator: Susan Bramhall |
Community Source Management/Governance
CIO Forum
Speaker: Barry Walsh and Panel Facilitator: Jim Helwig |
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11:30AM-12:30PM |
Integration and Deployment
Sakai and uPortal Integration Options
Speaker: Cris Holdorph Facilitator: Ken McCrery |
Multiple Audiences/General Information
JA-SIG CAS Overview
Speaker: Adam Rybicki Facilitator: Mark Rogers |
Design and Development
Java Portlet 2.0 (JSR 286)
Speaker: John Lewis Facilitator: Susan Bramhall |
Birds of a Feather
Semantic Web Activities in Higher Education
Speaker: Jon Corson-Rikert
 Facilitator: John Fereira |
Community Source Management/Governance
Engaging the User Community
Speaker: Michele Kimpton Facilitator: Tom Barton |
12:30PM-2:00PM |
Lunch |
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2:00PM-3:00PM |
Integration and Deployment
How We Integrated Fedora into Ruby On Rails, and How You Can Use It
Speaker: Matt Zumwalt Facilitator: Mark Rogers |
Integration and Deployment
Supersize Me: NITLE's Community-driven DSpace Initiative for Small Colleges
Speaker: Eric Jansson Facilitator:Michele Kimpton |
Design and Development
Securing Portlets with Spring Security
Speaker: John Lewis Facilitator: Susan Bramhall |
Birds of a Feather
Portal-LMS Integration
Speaker: Jason Shao Facilitator: Cris Holdorph |
Community Source Management/Governance
Open Source Mission: Moving Open Source from the Machine Room to the Mission Statement
Speaker: Nate Angell Facilitator: Paul Zablosky |
3:00PM-3:30PM |
Refreshment Break |
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3:30PM-4:30PM |
Multiple Audiences/General Information
The Bedework Enterprise Calendar Project
Speaker: Michael Douglass Facilitator: Michael Korcuska |
Design and Development
Upgrading uPortal: My.JohnsHopkins
Speaker: Andrew Wills Facilitator: Susan Bramhall |
Birds of a Feather
Developing an Open Source, SOA model of Open Library Systems for the modern Academic Library
Speaker: John Little Facilitator: John Fereira |
Integration and Deployment
Implementing the Open Source Portfolio Tools in Sakai
Speaker: Janice Smith Facilitator: Andrew Petro |
Community Source Management/Governance
Community Source Business Models: The Commercial Perspective
Speaker: Jonathan Markow Facilitator not required |
4:45PM-5:45PM |
Birds of a Feather
Managing Diverse & Complex uPortal Deployments with Cernunnos
Speaker: Andrew Wills Facilitator not required |
Design and Development
SOA and event-driven architecture in the Swedish Ladok system using open standards
Speaker: Mikael Berglund Facilitator: Dan Davis |
Multiple Audiences/General Information
Google Web Toolkit
Speaker: Wil Johnson Facilitator: Cris Holdorph |
Design and Development
Developing uPortal Themes from Scratch
Speaker: Erik Olsson Facilitator: Ben Stoutenburgh |
Community Source Management/Governance
Practical approaches to acceptance and adoption of Kuali
Speaker: Bob Ricci Facilitator: Susan Bramhall |
6:00PM-8:00PM |
Reception |
Poster Sessions |
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8:00PM-10:00PM |
Dinner on your own |
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Time |
Event |
Event |
Event |
Event |
Event |
07:00AM-6:00PM |
Registration |
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07:30AM-8:30AM |
Breakfast |
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08:30AM-9:45AM |
General Session
Moving Community Source to the Mainstream: Overcoming the Obstacles to Adoption
Speaker: Ira Fuchs Facilitator: Jonathan Markow |
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09:45AM-10:15AM |
Refreshment Break |
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10:15AM-11:15AM |
Design and Development
uPortal 3 Theme and Skin: An Overview
Speaker: Gary Thompson Facilitator: Paul Zablosky |
Community Source Management/Governance
Building Bedework - Learning to lead a higher ed open source project
Speaker: Gary Schwartz Facilitator: Adam Rybicki |
Integration and Deployment
Integrating Peoplesoft Enterprise Campus Solutions with Sakai
Speaker: Cris Holdorph Facilitator:Â Susan Inouye |
Birds of a Feather
Social Learning Enterprise Platforms
Speaker: Stuart Sim Facilitator not required |
Multiple Audiences/General Information
Introducing the JISC e-Framework Programme
Speaker: Alex Hawker Facilitator: Jon Corson-Rikert |
11:30AM-12:30PM |
Community Source Management/Governance
If We Build it, Will They Come? - Part Deux!
Speaker: George Kozak Facilitator:Michele Kimpton |
Birds of a Feather
Kuali Student User Experience
Speaker: Paul Zablosky Facilitator not required |
Integration and Deployment
Personal repository space via the personal portal
Speaker: Chris Awre Facilitator: John Fereira |
Design and Development
uPortal 3 Theme and Skin: Advanced/technical
Speaker: Gary Thompson Facilitator: Susan Bramhall |
Community Source Management/Governance
JA-SIG Membership Meeting
Speaker: Jonathan Markow Facilitator:Jim Helwig |
12:30PM-2:00PM |
Lunch |
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2:00PM-3:00PM |
Design and Development
Developing with the JCR (JSR 170, JSR 283)
Speaker: Lennard Fuller Facilitator: |
Integration and Deployment
Shibboleth 2.0: An Overview for Developers
Speaker: Scott Cantor Facilitator: Aaron Godert |
Multiple Audiences/General Information
The Fluid Project: A Open Community for Inclusive Design
Speaker: Colin Clark Facilitator: Michael Korcuska |
Design and Development
uPortal 3: Where did everything go?
Speaker: Eric Dalquist Facilitator: Cris Holdorph |
Birds of a Feather
Introducing the JISC e-Framework Programme
Speaker: Alex Hawker Facilitator not required: |
3:00PM-3:30PM |
Refreshment Break |
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3:30PM-4:30PM |
Community Source Management/Governance
Spreading Community Thick: Open Source Communities of Practice
Speaker: Nate Angell Facilitator:Â Susan Inouye |
Multiple Audiences/General Information
Open Source Long Term Preservation Archives
Speaker: Keith Rajecki Facilitator:Dan Davis |
Design and Development
CAS-NG: Adding Access Control to CAS
Speaker: Howard Gilbert Facilitator: Adam Rybicki |
Birds of a Feather
How we created a REST API for Fedora, Why we did it, and What it gives you.
Speaker: Matt Zumwalt Facilitator not required |
Integration and Deployment
Leveraging DLM Processors
Speaker: Tim Carroll Facilitator: Drew Wills |
4:45PM-5:45PM |
Design and Development
Creating a Production Quality Rice Application with SJDC
Speaker: Anthony Potts Facilitator: Aaron Godert |
Design and Development
Open Source Work Flow Implementation
Speaker: Darren Kraker Facilitator: Michael Korcuska |
Integration and Deployment
How Pearson is Using uPortal to Support Global Online Learning and Communities
Speaker: Mary Ann Perry Facilitator: Tom Barton |
Birds of a Feather
Yale "remember me" Cookie Based Login
Speaker: Jennifer Bourey Facilitator not required |
Multiple Audiences/General Information
Introducing EclipseLink
Speaker: Doug Clarke Facilitator: Cris Holdorph |
6:30PM-10:00PM |
Group Dinner |
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Time |
Event |
Event |
Event |
Event |
Event |
07:00AM-12:00PM |
Registration |
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07:30AM-8:30AM |
Breakfast |
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08:30AM-9:30AM |
Design and Development
JSR-168 and Sakai
Speaker: Jason Shao Facilitator: Michael Korcuska |
Community Source Management/Governance
Finding the balance between centralized code management and completely distributed volunteer development in community source software
Speaker: John Fereira Facilitator: John Fereira |
Birds of a Feather
JA-SIG Contributions and Project Incubation Process
Speaker: Susan Bramhall Facilitator not required |
Design and Development
Portlet Panel
Speaker: Parker Grimes Facilitator: Tom Barton |
Integration and Deployment
Functionality Mashup - Evolving to the Next Generation of Learning Management Systems
Speaker: Charles Severance Facilitator: Ken McCrery |
09:45AM-10:15AM |
Refreshment Break |
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09:45AM-10:45AM |
Integration and Deployment
Implementing Sakai and CAS
Speaker: Ben Stoutenburgh Facilitator: Susan Inouye |
Multiple Audiences/General Information
How Virtualization Improves Software Development
Speaker: Jason Shao Facilitator: Katya Sadovsky |
Integration and Deployment
Open Source Load Generator for Massive Scale
Speaker: Stuart Sim Facilitator: Jim Helwig |
Community Source Management/Governance
Open Source Portlet Incubation
Speaker: Jennifer Bourey Facilitator: Cris Holdorph |
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11:15AM-12:30PM |
Closing Keynote Presentation
Ubiquity, Interdependence, and the Age of Collaboration
Speaker: Kaye Howe Facilitator: Jonathan Markow |
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12:30PM-1:30PM |
Lunch for Seminar Attendees |
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1:30PM-5:00PM |
Barcamp or uCamp
BarCamp Spring 2008
Speaker: Facilitators: William Thompson and Cris Holdorph |
Half day Seminar
Introduction to Sakai
Speaker: Anthony Whyte
 Facilitator not required |
Half day Seminar
Installing, Configuring, and Customizing uPortal
Speaker: Andrew Petro
 Facilitator not required |
Half day Seminar
Implementing Kuali Rice
Speaker: Eric Westfall
 Facilitator not required |
Barcamp or uCamp
uCamp Facilitator: Paul Zablosky |