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Jasig Newsletter - September 2009

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1 Upcoming Events

1.1 EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference - Denver, Colorado (November 3-6, 2009)
1.2 Kuali Days VIII Announced! - San Antonio, Texas (November 17 and 18, 2009)
1.3 Save the Dates: Jasig Spring 2010 Conference - San Diego, California (March 2010)

2 Jasig Project Updates

2.1 Central Authentication Service (CAS)
2.1.1 Community Volunteer Positions
2.1.2 CAS Server
2.1.3 CAS Clients
2.1.4 ClearPass Extension
2.1.5 OpenRegistry
2.2 uPortal
2.2.1 New uPortal 2.5 and 2.6 Upgrade Scripts Now Available

3 Jasig Incubator

3.1 Bedework Tutorial - From the Lists

4 Around Jasig

4.1 Job Opening: Lead Technical Architect Position - Kuali Rice
4.2 Job Posting at Rutgers - Consulting Application Developer
4.3 Updates from the Jasig Unconference
4.4 DuraSpace Updates from Fedora Commons and DSpace (Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - Time: 10:00am PT)

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1 Upcoming Events

1.1 EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference - Denver, Colorado (November 3-6, 2009)

"We are living in challenging times, when the need for uncommon thinking is unprecedented. You have told us you look to EDUCAUSE for insight, thought leadership, and community interaction. One event delivers all this, and more: the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference, where you will be able to tap into an expansive pool of the best thinking in higher education IT. Maximize the value of your travel dollars and join us November 3-6, 2009 in Denver, Colorado. We're offering the richest member-driven program ever, keenly focused on providing you with the kind of tangible value you can take back to campus and use all year long:

  • More perspectives and insight: lightning rounds built into every track.
  • More global viewpoints: a 100% increase in sessions featuring international speakers.
  • More diversity of opinion: increased numbers of sessions spotlighting multiple presenters.
  • More networking with a purpose: hundreds of discussion opportunities to facilitate future collaboration.
  • More focus on the most complex issues: cloud computing; emerging technologies; distributed, cooperative, and blended learning environments; the latest on P2P regulations; green and sustainable IT; and much more."

Reference: http://net.educause.edu/e09/
Latest: http://educause.informz.net/educause/archives/archive_374256.html
Podcast: http://www.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/PodcastFirstLookattheEDUCAUSE2/173425

1.2 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

1.3 Save the Dates: Jasig Spring 2010 Conference

Join us at the Jasig Spring 2010 Conference

"Ten Years of Open Source Innovation"

Where: The Town and Country Resort, San Diego, CA
When: March 8 - 10, 2010
Supplementary Seminars March 7th and 10th
Developer Days, March 11 - 12

Help us celebrate Jasig's 10th anniversary in San Diego with outstanding speakers and special events!

Watch for our Call for Proposals next month. We invite you to present on a topic of your choice:

  • Open source strategies and solutions for higher education
  • Apps on Campus: Enterprise portlets, CAS, uPortal, Bedework, Identity & Access Management, Fluid, ESUP Helpdesk, Sakai, Kuali, DuraSpace, Internet2 Middleware Solutions
  • New technologies: Scala, Spring 3, deployment to Cloud, Groovy, Grails, REST, Jersey, mobile applications, etc
  • Emerging Applications
  • Much more!

Visit our website: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/10spring/index.html

Join our Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=158260541286

Hold the dates! We hope to see you this March!

  • The Jasig 2010 Spring Conference Committee

2 Jasig Project Updates

2.1 Central Authentication Service (CAS)

2.1.1 Community Volunteer Positions

The CAS Steering Committee is looking for ways to offer non-technical and technical community members additional opportunities to help out. We've identified a number of key positions and we're posting the first two here:

If you're interested in either of these positions, please contact Scott Battaglia (at scott dot battaglia at gmail dot com).

2.1.2 CAS Server

Jasig Central Authentication Service (CAS) 3.3.4 has been released. This release includes a number of minor fixes and updates:

  • Fix: JavaScript files were not being included in distribution
  • Fix: Restlet Dependency missing from Restlet Integration
  • Update: Upgrade to latest Memcached Client
  • Update: Documentation on Reloading Services in a Cluster
  • Update: Latest Person Directory 1.5 RC to support LDAPv3 Referrals Properly

The release can be downloaded from the Jasig Download Center at http://www.ja-sig.org/downloads/cas and is available from the Jasig Maven2 Repository.

Documentation on CAS can be found in the Jasig Wiki at http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASUM .

A complete changelog can be found in the Jasig Issue Tracker at http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/browse/CAS?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:changelog-panel

2.1.3 CAS Clients

Java

The Jasig CAS Client for Java 3.1.8 has been released. This small update includes a number of changes:

  • Logout support in the Atlassian Authenticators
  • Regression Fix: SingleSignOutFilter failure to get logoutRequest POST param results in redirect loops
  • Improve logging for property configuration to say where the property came from

The release can be downloaded from the Jasig Download Center at http://www.ja-sig.org/downloads/cas-clients/ or using Maven2 with the following dependency:

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.jasig.cas</groupId>
   <artifactId>cas-client-core</artifactId>
   <version>3.1.7</version>
   <type>jar</type>
   <scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>

Note, the scope should be "compile" if you're using the CAS Client APIs.

mod_auth_cas

Mod_auth_cas has seen significant adoption and development in the past several months. 1.0.8 is now included in Debian (lenny-backports and squeeze) and Ubuntu (karmic), so installation is as simple as:
'apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-cas'.

Work progresses toward an eventual 1.0.9 release of mod_auth_cas. Trunk now includes support for SAML validation and logout, and includes various performance and bug fixes. The mod_auth_cas developers are seeking testers to validate the new functionality before tagging a 1.0.9 release, and as always, are looking for other developers interested in working on this Apache module.

2.1.4 ClearPass Extension

Development continues towards a 1.0.0.GA release of ClearPass. The trunk of ClearPass has been updated to support CAS 3.3.3 and CAS 3.3.4. Work is ongoing to integrate ClearPass with the latest uPortal releases via a patch (to add support for the Jasig CAS Client).

2.1.5 OpenRegistry

We're pleased to announce the 0.1-M1 release of OpenRegistry! OpenRegistry 0.1-M1 supports the following use cases:

  • Generate Activation Keys (RESTful API)
  • Invalidate Activation Keys (RESTful API)
  • Verify Activation Keys (RESTful API)
  • Add Person (RESTful API)

This is an important first step towards the development of a collaborative open-source identity management registry. We encourage you to read our use cases at http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/OR/Functional+Use+Cases to understand more about the project and to try it out!

The release can be downloaded from:

The artifacts are also available via the Jasig Maven2 Repository for those who wish to use a Maven2 WAR Overlay.

We have instructions available:

We're continually improving our documentation, so consider it to be in a state of "flux." We instead encourage you to join our lists:

We look forward to quickly marching towards a 0.1-M2 release! Subscribe to our dev list to follow the details!

2.2 uPortal

2.2.1 New uPortal 2.5 and 2.6 Upgrade Scripts Now Available

Good news for uPortal 2.5.x and 2.6.x users planning to upgrade to uPortal 3.1: We have created special "export versions" for these earlier releases that will help automate the upgrade.

Previously, export scripts were only available for uPortal 3.0 and above. Those scripts have now been adapted for use by 2.5 and 2.6 users for upgrades to uPortal 3.0 and later.

The special releases include data export scripts back-ported from the uPortal 3.0 code base which include a large number of fixes that were not easily included into the 2.5 and 2.6 scripts.

Please note that these releases cannot be used to run a uPortal instance, only to export data from a uPortal 2.5 or 2.6 database for upgrading to uPortal 3.0 or later.

Instructions for using the releases can be found in the release notes on the wiki:

http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/2.5-export
http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/2.6-export

The special releases are now available for download:

http://www.ja-sig.org/downloads/uportal/uPortal_2.5-export.0.tar.gz
http://www.ja-sig.org/downloads/uportal/uPortal_2.6-export.0.tar.gz

Eric Dalquist
uPortal Release Manager

3 Jasig Incubator

3.1 Bedework Tutorial - From the Lists

"A tutorial has been added to the Bedework Manual that walks quickly through the steps of setting up Bedework to use a MySQL database and local LDAP authentication. The tutorial assumes a Linux operating system and uses the Tomcat packaged with the quickstart.

The tutorial can be found in section 3.15 of the Bedework Manual at: http://www.bedework.org/bedework/update.do?artcenterkey=22

or directly at: http://www.bedework.org/downloads/3.5/BedeworkManual-3.5.pdf#page=38 "

Contributed by: Arlen Johnson

4 Around Jasig

4.1 Job Opening: Lead Technical Architect Position - Kuali Rice

The Kuali Foundation is looking for an exceptionally talented technology professional who has the vision and execution skills to lead a rapidly growing open source community's technical direction. This unique opportunity is for the Kuali Rice Lead Architect position. Kuali Rice is an enterprise middleware suite that provides the foundation for Kuali's enterprise applications such as the Kuali Financial, Student, and Research Systems. Kuali Rice is also being adopted by educational institutions as a core part of a next generation enterprise architecture. This position offers the right candidate an opportunity to have an important impact improving the use of technology to further education globally. The successful candidate will have proven leadership abilities, experience with open source communities, exceptional communication and collaboration skills, and strong service oriented architecture and design expertise. For more information please see: http://kuali.org/news/2009/architect.html.

Qualified candidates should send a resume and letter of interest to:
jfoutty@kuali.org

4.2 Job Posting at Rutgers - Consulting Application Developer

"Reporting to the Associate Director, Enterprise Systems & Services, this individual has the lead responsibility to provide vision, leadership, and technical expertise in the area of Identity and Access Management. The position provides expertise in designing the system and leading the development effort to establish a universitywide identity management system."

For full details on this posting, see: http://uhr.rutgers.edu/jobpostings/aps/Detail.asp?id=09-000705

4.3 Updates from the Jasig Unconference

Check out the latest updates from the Unconference on the Jasig wiki at: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/aIaUAQ

Look for the "Recently Updated" pages!

4.4 DuraSpace Updates from Fedora Commons and DSpace (Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - Time: 10:00am PT)

"DuraSpace flagship open source repository platforms are preparing to release new versions: Fedora (late 2009) and DSpace (Oct. 2009). Please join presenters Chris Wilper and Brad McLean for an overview of current Fedora and DSpace development initiatives and community updates. This 60 min. web event will give an overview of Dspace 1.6 features like better statistics, an embargo feature, a batch metadata editing feature, and over 50 bug fixes and feature requests."

Source: http://www.education-webevents.com/?cid=e9495

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Jasig Newsletter - September 2009

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The next issue of the monthly Jasig Newsletter will be published on or about October 21st, 2009. Articles for that edition of the newsletter should be submitted no later than Tuesday, October 20th, 2009. Thanks!

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