06Summer prior suggestions
What topics would you like to hear about at the JA-SIG conferences?
Suggestions from evaluation forms collected at the 2005 summer conference. |
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Adoption strategies and metrics |
Aggregated layout creation process |
Application used on Academic side, such as admissions, teaching tools, distance learning, etc. |
Architecting a single sign-on |
Aspect oriented programming |
Authentication |
Banner - Luminis |
Beginning - How to evaluate needs and how to get started |
Best practices for architecture, channel development, database, etc. |
Calendars |
CASÂ |
Case studies of new implementations and challenges, general experience sharing. |
Case studies re: implementations |
Channel development |
Channel migration from one instance to another (re Dev -> Test -> Prod Environments) |
Channels - would love to see presentation of different institutions' implementations of the same thing - say 20 minutes each on 3 different courses, or calendars, or email, or etc. |
COLS 3.0 and JSR 168 portlets |
Content creation and management. |
Cross portal integration (e.g. techniques for tying other enterprise portals) when getting rid of the 'other' |
Custom channel development - hands on |
Customize look and feel |
CVS |
Deployment (new) for small schools |
Deployment issues |
Design and development |
Design patterns |
Detailed topics of real life problems, i.e. "DLM Best Practices" roundtable discussions on different ways to solve some problem. |
determining who/how content is organized in the portal. |
Developing complex portlets, with examples. |
Development |
Development Environments |
Development Frameworks |
Development Strategies |
Development tools. |
DLM |
Dspace |
EAI |
Email strategies - email clients with in he portal. |
End user experience |
Engaging campus units in providing content |
Enterprise instant messaging solutions |
ePortfolio |
ESB implementation |
Fedora |
Gathering uPortal usage statistics |
Getting oriented to the tools and their uses in "getting started" - when and why do you "wiki" vs lists vs ?? |
Hardware |
Have a showcase of new ideas for channels and cool ideas as to how to develop them. |
How have schools dealt with certain policy issues related to implementation, e.g. getting buy-in |
How to get a development environment up and running. |
How to make uPortal accessible. |
HyperContent |
Identity management |
Implementation in the organization |
IMS and OKI as they relate to uPortal. |
Integrating commercial applications |
Integration with external apps. |
Interface design and implementation. |
Intro sessions on the different JA-SIG software initiatives |
IoC container comparison |
J2EE development, Java 5 |
JA-SIG Directions |
Java deployment / development |
Java Server Faces |
Java Server tuning |
Java tools |
Jira and wiki collaboration tools |
JSP |
JSR 168Â |
Kiosk demos of apps developed by people attending JA-SIG |
Library integration |
License Management |
Linking between systems |
Load balancing |
Load balancing DBs |
Locking down channels and tabs - preventing access to preferences |
Logging unit testing |
Luminis / uPortal comparison & compatibility |
Luminis/uPortal integration |
Management of identities / services |
Management of Java projects |
Migrating from SLM/ALM to DLM |
More "how we did it" sessions that review uPortal feature sets and services |
MVC frameworks |
Novel UI/UE concepts, more new development concepts |
Ongoing support models/strategies/structures |
Open EAI |
Panel: favorite channels |
Performance tuning |
Politics and policies of Enterprise portals |
Portal based architecture |
Portal Governance best practices. |
Portal logic to stored procedures on DB |
Portal usability, testing |
Portlet development |
Portlets |
Portlets running in uPortal |
Practical WSRP implementations |
Project Management |
Rich client applications |
Roadmap to Enterprise Comm / Open source projects |
Roadmaps |
Sakai integration |
Sakai integration with uPortal |
Security |
Session on common problems/resolutions: ask the experts (roundtable?).  |
Shibboleth as it relates to uPortal and CAS. |
Single sign-on |
SIS |
SOA implementation |
Spring  |
Spring Framework |
Spring Portlet MVC |
Spring web flows |
SSN elimination |
Standards Evolution and Development |
Starting from Scratch |
Stats and logging |
Strategies for converting to portlets |
Students! |
Success stories |
Sun ID Management |
Taxonomy |
Technology (depth not breadth) on channel development |
Testing - more about how it's done. Look at uPortal from a user perspective. Navigation and depth could be an issue. |
The Kuali Project |
UML |
University Java development methodologies (e.g. XP, RUP) |
Upgrade paths |
uPortal 101: the Basics as a Help to Mgmt |
uPortal 3 stuff... |
uPortal and Security risks |
uPortal at small schools |
uPortal commerical versions - compare working with RSS (not what is RSS) |
uPortal Deployment |
uPortal GUI |
uPortal usability issues. |
uPortal Usage statistics |
uPortal v. commercial offerings: pros, cons, and how to choose. |
uPortal, JA-SIG and libraries |
Usability and User-Centered Design |
Use of tools for portlet development |
UW Calendar / Bedework |
UW Madison results of migration |
Version control |
VTSurvey Tool |
Web services - ASP models |
Web services, especially some detailed technical sessions on the "standard" technologies used by Sakai and other Java tools as well as uPortal. Or a "Web Services Protocols and APIs used by JA-SIG projects Overview."Â Or 'pros and cons' of choosing web services for JA-SIG projects. |
Web Services, practical implementation |
What I need to know to get off the ground. |
Work in Progress sessions. |
Workflow |
WSRP |