What topics would you like to hear about at the JA-SIG conferences?
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
CAS
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 168
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." 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
General
Content
Integrations