[uportal-dev] Jasig Executive Officers

[Jonathan Markow]

The Jasig Board selects its executive officers each year following general
elections for board positions.  This year the following directors are
serving in executive roles:

Jens Haeusser, University of British Columbia, *Chair *(Formerly Vice Chair)
Robert Sherratt, University of Hull, *Vice Chair*
Tim Archer, University of St. Francis, *Treasurer *(Second Year)
Katya Sadovsky, University of California--Irvine, *Secretary *(Second Year)

The Jasig Board maintains a distribution list: bo...@lists.jasig.org.  Feel
free to send non-project-related queries and comments there.  For
non-technical communication about specific projects, please email the
respective project steering committee:

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[uportal-dev] Develop Identity Strategies for Software Projects at Advance CAMP

[Jonathan Markow]

For the third year in a row, Jasig is a co-sponsor of the Advance CAMP
Identity Services Summit, a terrific event for learning, sharing, and
networking with open source IdM practitioners from around the world.  This
year we are partnering with ACAMP in back-to-back conferences.  Register for
one or register for both!  Read on...


**
Advance CAMP: Identity Services Summit III
Westminister, Colorado * May 25-27, 2011
https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/ACAMPIdSummit2011/Home

**

Want solutions for better provisioning, access management or other
identity-related problems? Interested in working with identity leaders and
developers across higher education to help design the next generation
architecture?

Register now for the Advance CAMP: Identity Services Summit III, May 25-27,
2011, in Westminister, Colorado to discuss identity-related implementations
and alignment across projects.

Advance CAMP is actively seeking the participation of architects,
developers, and deployers of open source and commercial-sponsored software,
services, and frameworks to:

* Engage in solving identity-related challenges of importance to you
* Hear about who's doing what and how to participate in or leverage their
activities
* Develop your take-aways for using technologies such as Facebook, OAuth,
OpenID, SAML, Kuali KIM, OpenSocial, Spring, and Django among others

REGISTER BY APRIL 22 to save money with low early-bird rates and ensure you
get a room in the hotel block.

COME EARLY and attend Jasig's Spotlight on Open Source Conference held just
prior to Advance CAMP at the same location. Information can be found at
http://www.jasig.org/jasigs-spotlight-open-source.

SPECIAL RECIPROCAL PROMOTION for Jasig and Advance CAMP attendees! Jasig
registrants can attend Advance CAMP Wednesday afternoon sessions as our
guest! Advance CAMPers can come early and attend the Jasig sessions for free
on Wednesday morning.

ADVANCE CAMP is sponsored by the InCommon Federation in cooperation with
Internet2, Jasig, and the Kuali Foundation.

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Re: [uportal-dev] Recent filtering updates

[Jonathan Markow]

Do we need uportal-user feedback on these questions too?

-Jonathan


On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Jen Bourey wrote:

> On Dec 9, 2010, at 6:26 PM, Eric Dalquist wrote:
>
> > Our goal should be that you can cd to any module the project and run "mvn
> clean install" and it will work with nothing in your local maven repository.
> This may not always be true in code coming from trunk or a -patches branch
> due to snapshot issues but for any release we cut that needs to be true.
> Depending on something in a source directory works just fine with this goal,
> depending on something in a target directory does not.
>
> I agree that we want a setup that is only dependent on source directory
> resources.  It should make the project easier to build, plus it prevents us
> from breaking the boundaries between maven projects.  It also seems to me
> like we'd get more mileage out of using the shared filter file as the
> filtering resource in the portlets, rather than using the rdbm.properties
> file, since that gives us access to many more filter tokens.
>
> >> The "painful to merge" part is exactly why I was so keen to get it in.
> The pom changes for many reasons and in many ways between releases;  if
> you've got home-grown filtering in place you already feel this pain (I do),
> even without conflicting on those specific lines.
> >>
> >> I don't believe it makes the pain much worse at all to sort out
> differences between the filtering that was added and whatever filtering you
> had.  But it certainly makes the pain much better going forward, considering
> you only have to deal with sorting that out the one time.
> > Right, but our stated release policy is as little pain as possible from
> patches releases. If fixing a bad bug causes some pain to merge it is
> unavoidable. Adding a new feature that causes pain during a merge is more
> questionable since we don't need to do that to fix some other issue.
>
> I'm personally open to adding this patch to 3.2.x, and it would probably
> make my life easier.  However, I'd really love some community feedback
> before we decide either way.  I'm particularly worried about schools who may
> have had their maven customization done by someone who's busy at the moment,
> or perhaps done by a consultant (we've helped some institutions to set up
> local maven filtering).  I'd hate to get into a situation where schools
> can't pick up some of the recent important bug fixes because they don't have
> the time to work through all the subversion conflicts and redo their
> deployment strategy.
>
> Given our general release policy, it seems to me like this might be too big
> of a change, but I'd really like the community as a whole to weight the
> benefits and costs of applying this patch to the maintenance branch and tell
> us what they'd like to do.  If this is going to cause significant trouble
> upgrading for many people, we can always offer it as an optional patch
> instead.
>
> My other concern about applying this patch to 3.2.x right now is that it
> feels unfinished to me.  I'd love more testing and community feedback before
> we integrate it into 3.2.x.  Do people feel this patch is sufficient?  Do
> they like the overall strategy?  Do people like the filter token names, or
> are they too long? (I actually personally picked them, so I'm not
> complaining, but I can see how they might seem unwieldly).
>
> Personally I feel like for this strategy to be useful and to replace what
> our adopters have already implemented locally, we likely need to go further.
>  We'd probably want to go ahead and apply the shared filter files to the CAS
> context, and to the portlet overlays.  I'd like to make sure that the
> version that's integrated into 3.2.x is a mostly-final version of the
> changes, so that 3.2.x adopters only have to integrate these changes once,
> rather than resolving conflicts several times as we refine our filtering
> strategy.
>
> - Jen
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Re: [uportal-dev] Two New Project

[Jonathan Markow]

Hello, Xavier-

Please excuse my late reply.  I just wanted to welcome you to the Jasig
uPortal lists.  We are looking forward to collaborating with the ESUP Mobile
team and with the Anywhere-Services efforts.  So I hope we can continue this
dialog as the work progresses.

Best,
Jonathan


On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Xavier Pétard wrote:

>  Hi all,
>
> our wiki pages about ESUP Mobile are in French, and before I have enough
> time to explain precisely what we have done or want to do, let me sketch it.
> We want to :
>
>- provide help for our community on mobile-ready uportal packages
>(hence our emails about lost sessions in 3.2.4) ;
>- provide a list of tested mobile portlets, whether coming from jasig
>or done locally ;
>- provide a framework to ease portlets development. We are currently
>rewriting our esup-commons framework, to be less tied to specific rendering
>methods : some developers here use JSF (Trinidad for mobile compliance,
>http://www.esup-portail.org/display/PROJCOMMONS/Esup-commons-jsf-trinidad),
>some others SpringMVC (
>http://www.esup-portail.org/display/PROJCANSTOCK/Esup+Portlet+Stockage).
>The last version is not anymore, like Frederic Ravetier mentioned, tied to
>JSF. Anyway, all the improvements made on the JSF part will certainly be
>included ;-)
>
> We know for sure we will have to write different views between desktop and
> mobile, but one of the main questions now is device detection, which has to
> be consistent between portal and portlets, user being able to switch between
> views.
>
> Thanks to Frederic Ravetier, he was quicker than me talking about ESUP
> Mobile. Anyware-Services is working with us on the project, with the Paris
> Universities (UNR Paris Ile de France).
>
> Xavier Pétard
> ESUP Portail
>
>
>
> Le 22/11/10 19:12, Jen Bourey a écrit :
>
> Hi Frederic,
>
>  It's great to hear from you, and I'm looking forward to Jasig and Esup
> Portail collaborating on mobile development.  I've been involved in both the
> mobile theme development for uPortal, as well as some of the mobile portlet
> development.  I'm traveling for the holidays today, but I'll try to compose
> a summary of what I know of the current state of mobile support in uPortal
> trunk, as well as some of the changes we've talked about making.
>
>  - Jen
>
>
>  On Nov 22, 2010, at 7:59 AM, Frédéric Ravetier wrote:
>
>  Hello,
>
> I am the project manager for the "ESUP Mobile Project", working at
> Anyware-Services.
> We started the development last week. Our first portlet is a portlet to
> display messages (email from an IMAP server that is under CAS).
> Note that most of the ESUP portlet are using JSF (which is a real
> difficulty to use the taglib WNG from Wurfl with JSF). Also the goal is to
> have a multi-channel portlet (available to display data on mobile and
> desktop).
>
> Our strategy is:
> 1- to develop a web portlet with a default and simple skin (based on JSF)
> 2- build a filter (tomcat filter) based on WURFL to detect if the user is
> using a mobile or a desktop browser
> 3- make a mechanism to choose the JSP depending of the detection (mobile to
> use WNG taglib - from WURFL - or desktop to use classic JSF taglib)
> 4- modify the WNG taglib to work in an JSF environment.
>
> The last step may failed or may be too hard or too complicate to maintain.
> In this case we will reduce our constraints and we will use another taglib
> to render data to mobile. We already think about Trinidad. If you have
> suggestion I am open to them. We'd like to avoid framework or library that
> are only webkit compatible, because we'd like to support many mobile
> browsers and not only iphone and smartphone. It is a wish that can be reduce
> depending on the complexity and the maintainability.
>
> Why WURFL, because it is THE taglib known by most of the mobile developers
> that want a real compatibility with most of the mobiles.
>
> We are currently at step 2. We made the step 1 with some small doubt on
> step 1 because of the CAS environment, we do not have an IMAP that support
> CAS here.
>
> Do you have suggestions?
> Do you have others informations?
> Do not hesitate to contact me in order to have more information or to share
> some knowledge.
>
> Then we will have some others portlet to enhance or to develop (Calendar,
> Directory based on LDAP, news, ...)
>
> Let me know if you prefer another discussion channel than this one.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Frédéric Ravetier
> Project Manager
> Anyware-Services (www.anyware-services.com)
> frederic.ravet...@anyware-services.com
> Phone: +33 5 62 19 19 03
> Amety

Re: [uportal-dev] Two New Project

[Jonathan Markow]

- build a filter (tomcat filter) based on WURFL to detect if the user is
> using a mobile or a desktop browser
> 3- make a mechanism to choose the JSP depending of the detection (mobile to
> use WNG taglib - from WURFL - or desktop to use classic JSF taglib)
> 4- modify the WNG taglib to work in an JSF environment.
>
> The last step may failed or may be too hard or too complicate to maintain.
> In this case we will reduce our constraints and we will use another taglib
> to render data to mobile. We already think about Trinidad. If you have
> suggestion I am open to them. We'd like to avoid framework or library that
> are only webkit compatible, because we'd like to support many mobile
> browsers and not only iphone and smartphone. It is a wish that can be reduce
> depending on the complexity and the maintainability.
>
> Why WURFL, because it is THE taglib known by most of the mobile developers
> that want a real compatibility with most of the mobiles.
>
> We are currently at step 2. We made the step 1 with some small doubt on
> step 1 because of the CAS environment, we do not have an IMAP that support
> CAS here.
>
> Do you have suggestions?
> Do you have others informations?
> Do not hesitate to contact me in order to have more information or to share
> some knowledge.
>
> Then we will have some others portlet to enhance or to develop (Calendar,
> Directory based on LDAP, news, ...)
>
> Let me know if you prefer another discussion channel than this one.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Frédéric Ravetier
> Project Manager
> Anyware-Services (www.anyware-services.com)
> frederic.ravet...@anyware-services.com
> Phone: +33 5 62 19 19 03
> Ametys: The CMS Java Open Source www.ametys.org
>
>
> Le 22/11/2010 16:03, Jonathan Markow a écrit :
>
> I recently had a conversation with Alain Mayeur, director of ESUP Portail,
> the nation-wide consortium of French universities that have developed a
> "Digital Work Space" based on uPortal, CAS, and a host of other open source
> applications that they have developed or integrated.  Alain told me about
> two projects currently underway that are of interest to Jasig.
>
> The first one is the ESUP Mobile Project.  With several participating
> universities, this project is working to coordinate the development of
> mobile services supported by the mobile framework in uPortal 3.2.  The wiki
> page for the project (in French) is located at
> http://www.esup-portail.org/display/PROJESUPMOBILE/Projet+ESUP+Mobile.
>
> A second project, also the result of a collaboration among several
> organizations, is designed to enhance the content management capabilities of
> uPortal.
>
> Alain will ask the project leads to send us more information about these
> initiatives.  I am hoping there might be some areas in which Jasig
> developers would be able to contribute.
>
> -Jonathan
>
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>
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>
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Re:[uportal-dev] JASIG/ESUP Grouper

[Jonathan Markow]

That's good to hear, Arnaud. Please point us to your tutorial when you have
begun your work.

Best,
Jonathan

On Nov 23, 2010 8:27 AM, "Arnaud Deman" 
wrote:

Hello Jonathan,
I am also very pleased  to work on this topic again.

Regarding the work about Grouper and uPortal I am not sure that my
knowledge is updated. I saw the pages on the JASIG  wiki and I believe
there is a new GroupStore.
I have not tested it yet, but I intend to do it soon, as I am starting
to work on a tutorial about Grouper for the ESUP community.

Best regards,
Arnaud

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Re:[uportal-dev] Two New Project JASIG/ESUP

[Jonathan Markow]

Thank you, Alain, and greetings to the project managers who are named
below.  We are very interested in the work you are doing!

We have had a brief email dialog with Frédéric Ravetier today, in response
to my earlier email.  Jen Bourey, who has been working closely with the
uPortal 3.2 mobile framework, will be discussing the 3.2 mobile architecture
some more on our mailing lists when she is finished with her holiday
traveling.

Arnaud, it is good to hear that you are continuing your Grouper work since
you have moved to AIX Marseilles 3.  I don't know if you are familiar with
the work that Chris Hyzer and Jen have been doing with Grouper and
uPortal...?

Brigitte, we are interested in the CMS/uPortal project, too.  Perhaps you
could tell us something about this project and describe the scope of work?

It would probably be helpful if people would respond in separate email
threads so we can keep better track of the separate topics.

Thanks again to all.  We look forward to discussing opportunities to
collaborate with you on this work.

Best,
Jonathan


On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Alain Mayeur <
alain.may...@univ-valenciennes.fr> wrote:

> Hi Jonathan
>
> As we have spoken during our last call, we have  discussed at our last
> coordination meeting ( November, 8) of such projects for
> which we can try to develop a collaboration.
>
> I give the contacts for project managers:
>
> ESUP-Mobile: Francis Forbeau et Xavier Petard
>
> CMS/ U-Portal: Brigitte Sor;
>
> The project ESUP-Portail with "grouper" is coordinated by Arnaud Deman, who
> is now at AIX Marseilles 3 University
>
>
> Alain
>
>
> Écouter
> Le 22 nov. 10 à 16:03, Jonathan Markow a écrit :
>
> I recently had a conversation with Alain Mayeur, director of ESUP Portail,
> the nation-wide consortium of French universities that have developed a
> "Digital Work Space" based on uPortal, CAS, and a host of other open source
> applications that they have developed or integrated.  Alain told me about
> two projects currently underway that are of interest to Jasig.
>
> The first one is the ESUP Mobile Project.  With several participating
> universities, this project is working to coordinate the development of
> mobile services supported by the mobile framework in uPortal 3.2.  The wiki
> page for the project (in French) is located at
> http://www.esup-portail.org/display/PROJESUPMOBILE/Projet+ESUP+Mobile.
>
> A second project, also the result of a collaboration among several
> organizations, is designed to enhance the content management capabilities of
> uPortal.
>
> Alain will ask the project leads to send us more information about these
> initiatives.  I am hoping there might be some areas in which Jasig
> developers would be able to contribute.
>
> -Jonathan
>
>
>  ___
>
>
>
>
> Alain Mayeur
> Directeur
> Direction des Systèmes d'Information
> Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis
> Le Mont Houy
> 59313 Valenciennes cedex 9
>
> Tél: 03-27-51-11-35
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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[uportal-dev] Two New Project

[Jonathan Markow]

I recently had a conversation with Alain Mayeur, director of ESUP Portail,
the nation-wide consortium of French universities that have developed a
"Digital Work Space" based on uPortal, CAS, and a host of other open source
applications that they have developed or integrated.  Alain told me about
two projects currently underway that are of interest to Jasig.

The first one is the ESUP Mobile Project.  With several participating
universities, this project is working to coordinate the development of
mobile services supported by the mobile framework in uPortal 3.2.  The wiki
page for the project (in French) is located at
http://www.esup-portail.org/display/PROJESUPMOBILE/Projet+ESUP+Mobile.

A second project, also the result of a collaboration among several
organizations, is designed to enhance the content management capabilities of
uPortal.

Alain will ask the project leads to send us more information about these
initiatives.  I am hoping there might be some areas in which Jasig
developers would be able to contribute.

-Jonathan

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Re: [uportal-dev] Important Weather Portlet Information

[Jonathan Markow]

Unfortunately, if it's not international-friendly, then it's not really
viable for Jasig...

-Jonathan

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Domazlicky, Eric
wrote:

>  This isn't a very international-friendly suggestion, but I for one would
> advocate using the National Digital Forecast Database Web Service:
>
> http://www.nws.noaa.gov/xml/
>
>
>
> Of course this only covers the United States, but this seems like a viable
> non-commercial option.
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* bounce-11988007-20145...@lists.wisc.edu [mailto:
> bounce-11988007-20145...@lists.wisc.edu] *On Behalf Of *Parker Grimes
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:16 AM
> *To:* uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org
> *Subject:* [uportal-dev] Important Weather Portlet Information
>
>
>
> I just got off the phone with a representative from Accuweather. They were
> generous enough to setup a weather feed specifically for the uPortal
> community and that feed has driven the Weather Portlet that is bundled with
> uPortal. Unfortunately, they discovered that someone outside higher ed has
> gotten a hold of the the uPortal weather feed and has been using it in a
> mobile phone app. They have seen a huge spike in traffic on the uportal feed
> which violates the terms of use that we were given. They will be shutting it
> down immediately. Before you get too upset, they reserved the right in their
> terms of use (that is included in the Weather Portlet source distribution)
> to discontinue the feed if they deemed necessary.
>
>
>
> With that said, they still want to provide a data feed for the uPortal
> community. We will just have to go about things differently. We can no
> longer publish the data feed url in a publicly available place. I haven't
> quite figured out how that will be accomplished and I am open to ideas.
>
>
>
>
>  Parker Grimes
>
> Programmer Analyst Supervisor
>
> Information Technology Department
>
> Southern Utah University
>
>
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[uportal-dev] Fwd: [uportal-user] uPortal 3.3.0-M1 Released

[Jonathan Markow]

Congrats to all who contributed.  Sounds great!
-Jonathan

-- Forwarded message --
From: Eric Dalquist 
Date: Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 5:36 PM
Subject: [uportal-user] uPortal 3.3.0-M1 Released
To: uportal-u...@lists.ja-sig.org


 Jasig is proud to announce the first milestone release of uPortal 3.3.0.

The M1 release is meant to be a developer preview of the new features being
developed for 3.3. This release is not feature complete and there are no
assurances about potential chances to the database or any other APIs before
the first release candidate.

There was no version created in Jira for this release but the list of closed
issues for the 3.3.0 version is a good reference:
https://issues.jasig.org/browse/UP/fixforversion/10632

Major 3.3 features that are either complete or mostly implemented for the M1
release:

   - "Gallery" portal customization interface that combines portlet
   subscription, subscribed tabs, skin selection and tab layout into an easy to
   use interface.
   - Inline tab name editing
   - Drag & Drop reordering of tabs
   - Updated Administration Tools (Groups, Permissions & User Management)
   - Consistent URLs which move much of the navigational state of the portal
   to the URL data
   - i18n improvements
  - Centralized messages into a single file
  - Autotranslation of new messages to help bootstrap human translation
- Grouper support shipping with the built in Groups & Permissions
   services
   - Pulled/Subscribable DLM fragments, allowing users to subscribe to a
   pre-built tab of portlets
   - Updated skin
   - JSR-286 Support
  - Rendering, Actions, Resources and Events are supported
  - Setting response headers when handling a resource request is not
  working
  - Setting render parameters during event handling is not working
  - Caching, header content contributes, and cookies all need to be
  implemented
- New rendering pipeline with intelligent cache key generation
   - Upgraded to Spring 3.0
   - Standardization of REST like service APIs for dyanmic UI
   - All dynamic UI code is written as Fluid Components for standardization

*Downloads* are available from:
http://downloads.jasig.org/uportal/uPortal-3.3.0-M1/
*Release notes* are available at:
https://wiki.jasig.org/display/UPC/3.3.0-M1

-Eric Dalquist

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[uportal-dev] Jasig Unconference Hotel Discount Deadline is Approaching

[Jonathan Markow]

*Still haven't registered for the 2010 Jasig Unconference?*
Special discount rates at the conference hotel end Oct 3, 2010!

The Unconference is shaping up to be another great event for open source
collaborators.
Community developers from all our projects will be available to share,
collaborate, review, teach, and learn!

It's an intimate, interactive event for maximum learning and productivity:

*uPortal*

Review the latest work on Jasig Portlets
Help out on our uPortal Documentation project
Learn about JSR 286 development
Get help with your own portlet development
Bring your own portlet work for code review
Learn about the initiative for Grouper/uPortal integration
Get an early look at upcoming new features

*Bedework*
Preview the Bedework 3.7 release
Learn about Restful Web Services for Calendaring
Check out the upcoming personal calendaring features
Get help with Bedework integration

*CAS*
Speak with the experts
Learn about new plans for multi-factor authentication
Discuss the CAS roadmap

*OpenRegistry*
Learn all about this incubated IdM application from project participants

*HelpDesk*
Learn about this full-featured, incubated, open source application
   from the institution that just completed the first North American
installation

*IT Ecosystem*
Our newest Incubation project helps IT departments visually map the
components of their
   infrastructure and view their dependencies--from networks to servers to
applications, and more.

*The Details:*

*DATES:*
October 18-20, Unconference sessions
October 20-21, Developer/Implementer meetings

*PLACE:*
University of St. Francis
500 Wilcox St., Joliet, IL 60435

*REGISTRATION SITE: *
https://www.concentra-cms.com/register/start.action?confId=46

*MAIN UNCONFERENCE SITE:* http://bit.ly/jasigunconf2010

*ACCOMMODATIONS*
Harrah's Joliet
151 N. Joliet Street, Joliet, IL
Reservation Line: 800-Harrahs (1-800-427-7247)
Hotel Direct #: (815) 740-7800
Room rate: $88.99 plus tax per room. Includes breakfast voucher for
breakfast in the Union Station Buffet.
Rooms must be booked by 10/3/2010 to get the guaranteed rate.
Reference group code "S1017JC" to get the special Jasig rate.

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[uportal-dev] Volunteers Wanted for 2011 Jasig Conference Program Committee

[Jonathan Markow]

Jasig's annual conference will be held in May next year, and we're looking
for volunteers to participate on the Program Committee.  No experience
necessary.  Everyone is welcome.

The committee's role is to
- review and select presentation proposals
- help choose keynote speakers
- select seminar topics
- plan fun events during the conference
- help get the word out over our social networks and listservs
- bask in the glow of a successful conference
- etc.

The many details of event logistics are handled by our ace conference
management team at CONCENTRA-CMS, but there's still plenty of content
planning work to do for program committee participants.  We meet by phone
bi-weekly once planning begins and that escalates to weekly calls for a
period of time when things start heating up.

If it sounds like fun to you (and it is!) then please send me an email
stating your interest, along with any questions you might have.

Thanks!
Jonathan
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[uportal-dev] Unicon Portlet Development Training Offered at Jasig Unconference

[Jonathan Markow]

Jasig Partner Unicon is offering a Portlet Development Training course
immediately following the October Jasig Unconference at University of St.
Francis in Joliet, Illinois.

The Jasig Unconference is the place for personalized learning focused on
Jasig projects and associated technologies.  Unicon Portlet Training is
designed to bring portlet developers up to speed developing
standards-compliant portlets (details below).  Leverage your travel dollars
and attend both!

Find out more about the Unconference (and register) on the Jasig wiki:
https://wiki.jasig.org/x/KIDNAQ

Find out more about Portlet Development Training (and register) on the
Unicon website:  http://www.unicon.net/node/1411.  (Seating is limited.)

See you at the University of St. Francis in October!

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* "Open for Higher Education"*
 New York, NY
 646-867-3137
 www.jasig.org

Portlet Development Training
Explore the functionality and capabilities of portlets.

The Portlet Development Training course serves as an introduction and guide
to developing standards-compliant portlets. With this training course you
will receive hands-on experience ranging from the building and deployment of
portlets to techniques for organizing code in a clean, architecturally-sound
way.

Join Andrew Wills, Software Architect at Unicon, as he guides you through
this exclusive Portlet Development Training course. This training will
transform your ability to successfully develop portlets.
Topics for this training course include:

   - Portlet Specification Overview
   - Apache Pluto Overview
   - Portlet API
   - Obtaining 3rd-party Portlets
   - Portlet Installation
   - Development Environment
   - Use of Eclipse IDE
   - Hello World Portlet
   - Advanced Portlet Applications
   - Portlet Security
   - Debugging Portlets
   - uPortal Roadmap

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[uportal-dev] Update on uPortal Documentation - July, 2010

[Jonathan Markow]

Here's an update on our efforts to improve the uPortal Documentation
from Laura McCord of Southwestern University, Jasig's uPortal
Documentation Coordinator:

Yes, I know…you thought it could never get done… but it's happening!

The documentation is coming along very nicely thanks to many of you who
have been sending me feedback. You may have already noticed each week I
am sending the community mailing-lists emails on special topics to keep
on task and focused. Please continue sending me content, ideas,
screenshots, or pin-pointing bad grammar and misspellings (which is
equally important) as the documentation will be most successful if built
by the community.

The main goal of the documentation, besides content, is the
organization. We really wanted to create a manual that can be followed
by EVERYONE….a developer/programmer should not be required to get
uPortal up and running. The manual is being created to be a step-by-step
process that builds from the requirements of uPortal all the way up to
"Yea, I have uPortal installed….Now What?!" . Well, the next phase of
the manual "Configuring uPortal" will be based on configuring uPortal
for YOUR institution, which will house different customization options
such as Authentication, Themes, and Layouts. Other manuals including,
Site Administration, Systems Administration, and the Developer's Manual
will also be worked on once the core of the manual has been completed.

Take a sneak peak at a couple pages of the manual below:
https://wiki.jasig.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=29133275
https://wiki.jasig.org/display/UPM32/Requirements

You'll see from the manual pages that we're working to give you a
document that is focused on readability.

On another note, the Unconference is being planned and is something you
should definitely try to attend. We will be including a new
documentation track where you can participate in creating or editing
content. This event will be a really great way to get together with
other uPortal users and tackle a subject. Don't worry you don't have to
be a developer…we'll find work for you ;) In fact, we want the
documentation to be less developer-centric so editors are desperately
needed.

Many Thanks,
Laura McCord (Southwestern University)
uPortal Documentation Coordinator

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[uportal-dev] Registration is Open for the Jasig Fall Unconference!

[Jonathan Markow]

*WHY ATTEND THE JASIG UNCONFERENCE?*

An unconference is an event featuring spontaneously planned activities based
on the interests and needs of the participants.

Attend this year's Unconference if you would like to--

   - Meet with experts, newbies, and everyone in-between from a variety of
   open source communities
   - Pursue a topic that's important to you and your institution
   - Collaborate and compare best practices with your peers
   - Get up to speed on uPortal, CAS, Bedework, IdM Topics, Portlets,
   OpenRegistry, HelpDesk,and other applications
   - Bring home solutions that you can use
   - Get help with your own code
   - Work on integration projects
   - Help improve our user manuals
   - Record a demo of your work in our "Screencast Factory"
   - Spend time in informal discussion about the subjects that are of most
   interest to you
   - Decide for yourself what you'd like to gain from the event!

The costs are low.  The learning opportunities are incomparable!

*REGISTER NOW:*

- Registration fee for the October 2010 Jasig Unconference: $225/Members,
$275/Non-Members
- Nightly rate at Harrah's Hotel: $88.99
- Two-and-a-half days talking, learning, teaching, planning, designing,
coding,
and hanging out with your peers: Priceless!

*DATES:*
October 18-20, Unconference sessions
October 20-21, Developer/Implementer meetings

*PLACE:*
University of St. Francis
500 Wilcox St., Joliet, IL 60435

*REGISTRATION SITE: *
https://www.concentra-cms.com/register/start.action?confId=46

*MAIN UNCONFERENCE SITE:* http://bit.ly/jasigunconf2010

*ACCOMMODATIONS*
Harrah's Joliet
151 N. Joliet Street, Joliet, IL
Reservation Line: 800-Harrahs (1-800-427-7247)
Hotel Direct #: (815) 740-7800
Room rate: $88.99 plus tax per room. Includes breakfast voucher for
breakfast in the Union Station Buffet.
Rooms must be booked by 10/3/2010 to get the guaranteed rate.
Reference group code "S1017JC" to get the special Jasig rate.

*I CAN'T STOP MYSELF! WHAT SHOULD I DO NEXT?*

If you're planning to join us, please do the following:

   1. Visit and Add your Name on the Unconference Planning Site on the Jasig
   wiki. This is a great place to indicate your interests---what you'd like to
   discuss, learn, share or teach:
   wiki participants
page
   2. Register for the Unconference right here:
  1. * * https://www.concentra-cms.com/register/start.action?confId=46
   3. Reserve a room at the Harrah's Joliet Hotel.
  1. Register by October 3rd, by calling the Harrah's reservation line
  at 800-Harrahs (1-800-427-7247).
  2. Reference group code "S1017JC" to get the Jasig rate of
  $88.99/night. Be sure to tell them you are staying at the Harrah's Joliet
  hotel.
  3. More info on the hotel can be found here: Fall 2010 Unconference
  Hotel 
Information
   4. Make travel arrangements. Tips are available here: Fall 2010
   Unconference Travel
Information

See you at the Jasig Unconference,
The Fall 2010 Unconference Organizers

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[uportal-dev] Vote for Contegix!

[Jonathan Markow]

Jasig Partner, Contegix, our infrastructure hosting company, is up for a
Linux Journal Reader's Choice Award.  They sent us the following email
requesting our support.

Contegix has been a super partner.  They really are "The Best", so we have
no reservations asking you to vote for them!

Thanks,
Jonathan


Dear Jasig Members and Community:

As a Linux hosting provider, Contegix lives and breathes open source.  It is
truly in our DNA.  We love helping and sponsoring Jasig and many other open
source communities and projects, such as Codehaus, Apache, and many others.

It's our one time of year where we ask for help from these organizations.
 Now is that time.  Last year, we were chosen by the Linux community as 2009
Linux Journal Reader's Choice Award.  We appreciate every single vote.  This
year's voting is live, and we would greatly appreciate your support by
voting for Contegix.

Please go to http://contegix.com/lj2010 and vote for us (Contegix) in the
"Best Linux-friendly Web Hosting Company" category.

You do NOT need to vote for the other categories in order to make your vote
count.  You only have to fill in a vote for those you want, such as
Contegix.  You do NOT need to subscribe to the magazine in order to vote.

Thanks in advance for your time and for you support.  You are making a huge
difference for us, and we are truly grateful!"

Best,

- Matthew Porter, CEO & Co-Founder
- Craig McElroy, CTO & Co-Founder
...And all your engineers and staff @contegix

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[uportal-dev] Jasig Fund-Raising Program

[Jonathan Markow]

Jasig has begun a new fund-raising program aimed at corporate sponsors and
individual donors.  First of all, we are now set up to receive individual
tax-deductible donations through PayPal, by credit card, or by check.
Secondly, we have started a corporate sponsorship program that will make it
possible for commercial entities to support the work we do.

How do we intend to make use of these funds?  Here is a list of
non-code-related areas in which we currently invest on behalf of our
projects:

   - Community building – Jasig’s mission is to encourage and nurture
   collaboration on all our projects.  Doing that entails continuous outreach
   and organizational development
   - A governance model  - We provide oversight and infrastructure to ensure
   that projects are governed by a representation of developers, stakeholders,
   and board
   - Conferences – We produce an annual conference that is inclusive of
   Jasig projects as well as the work of other innovative, higher education,
   open source communities; we also produce an annual “unconference,” a
   spontaneous event where participants construct an agenda on site based on
   their interests and expertise; and, finally, we co-sponsor several  open
   source events during the year in partnership with such groups as Internet2,
   InCommon, Kuali, and others
   - Training – Seminars run by community leaders and industry experts
   provide training in new technologies and open source projects
   - Our code repository – Available to official projects, the Jasig
   Incubator, and individual contributions, where appropriate
   - Our wiki – Open to all
   - Our issues tracker – Open to all for management of bugs, new features,
   product releases, etc.
   - Open source software license management
   - Legal protection
   - Relationships with other open source projects – We seek partnerships,
   integration opportunities, and joint promotions in the interest of our
   community
   - Community outreach – Our website, newsletters, announcements, and
   social media sites promote Jasig and its projects around the world
   - Mailing lists – Our mailing lists offer forums for questions and
   support from the community of users and developers
   - Third party services – Jasig develops relationships with companies
   offering commercial support for its applications
   - We constantly promote and refine an ecosystem and methodology for
   sustainable projects

We plan to use the additional funds to strengthen these services and to
provide new ones that our projects and user communities believe are
worthwhile.

Individual donations can be made on the Jasig website:
http://www.jasig.org/jasig/contribute/donations. You will see Donation
buttons on our website and wiki linking you to more information.

More information about the Sponsorship Program can be found at
http://www.jasig.org/jasig/contribute/sponsorship.

Higher education institutions and application service providers will
continue to support Jasig through our Membership program:
http://www.jasig.org/jasig-membership.

We thank you for your support!

On behalf of the Jasig board of directors,

Jonathan
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[uportal-dev] Jasig 2010 Elections - Deadlines Extended

[Jonathan Markow]

The deadlines for annual Jasig elections have been extended, as follows:

Call for nominations ends:  July 9, 2010

Start of voting begins:  July 19, 2010

Voting ends:   July 29, 2010

Thank you,

Deborah K. Smith, Election Coordinator and Jasig Administrator
CONCENTRA-CMS


On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Jonathan Markow  wrote:

> Jasig is pleased to announce the opening of nominations for the Board of
> Directors, the uPortal Steering Committee, and the CAS Steering Committee.
>
> Jasig, Inc. is a non-profit, 501(c)3, international consortium of
> educational institutions and commercial affiliates supporting
> community-driven, open source software development and promoting open system
> architectures for higher education.
>
> JASIG BOARD
>
> The Board is the group that manages strategic direction and policy for the
> entire organization, oversees all projects and events, provides shared
> infrastructure, and takes responsibility for the licensing and protection of
> intellectual property.  The board also ensures that project management is
> consistent with the organization’s mission, and makes sure that Jasig
> operates within its fiscal resources.
>
> The 2010 elections will fill four (4) vacant Director positions that will
> result from an annual planned cycling of Board positions.  Board Directors
> shall serve for a term of three years.  Board Directors may serve two
> consecutive terms, if re-elected.
>
>
>
> UPORTAL STEERING COMMITTEE
>
> The uPortal Steering Committee will be filling two (2) stakeholder
> positions.  uPortal Steering Committee members serve for a period of two
> years and may be re-elected to a second consecutive term.
>
> CAS STEERING COMMITTEE
>
> The CAS Steering Committee will be filling three (3) open stakeholder
> positions.  Committee members serve for a one-year period and may be
> re-elected to a second consecutive term.
>
> Steering committees serve as advocates for their project.  They exercise
> strategic and operational oversight, encourage broadened support, and seek
> to increase participation from the community.
>
> REQUIREMENTS FOR SERVING
>
> The slates for these committees are open to all.  While voting is
> conducted by Jasig members, membership is not required to serve.
>
> These committees, and board, meet in person at least twice a year at Jasig
> events or at such times and places as designated by the Chair. Members are
> expected to attend monthly meetings and regularly conduct business
> electronically.  The Board of Directors meets monthly by video-conference.
> Directors may phone in when they are not able to participate by video.  The
> other committees meet monthly by teleconference.
>
> Prospective board and committee members should be prepared to serve in a
> proactive way.  If elected, they are asked to take on oversight
> responsibilities, recruit others in the community to help out, when
> appropriate, serve as spokespeople for the organization or project, and
> occasionally lead initiatives on behalf of Jasig and its projects.  The
> time commitment is manageable, usually amounting to several hours a month.
> Some key success factors are good communication skills and a keen desire to
> be helpful!
>
> Board and Committee members are not compensated for their work.  Nominees
> will be expected to confirm that their organizational leadership approves of
> this commitment of time if elected.
>
> ELECTION PROCESS
>
> Nominations for all positions must be emailed to electi...@ja-sig.org no
> later than 5:00 PM EDT (GMT-4) on Wednesday, June 30, 2010.  As stated
> earlier, anyone can be nominated to stand for election to these positions.
> Self-nominations are also encouraged.  Receipt of any nomination you submit
> will be confirmed.  The Jasig Election Coordinator will notify all nominees
> and confirm their willingness and ability to run for election.  If they
> agree, a short bio and a personal statement will be solicited and posted on
> the Jasig wiki.
>
> Following the nomination period, elections are scheduled to be conducted
> for a period of two weeks via email, beginning Tuesday, July 6, 2010, with
> results announced soon after Friday, July 16, 2010.  Votes will be
> submitted by the designated Community Liaisons representing our member
> organizations.  More complete directions for voting will follow.  Newly
> elected committee members and board directors will join group meetings
> during the summer and officially assume their new responsibilities in
> September, 2010.
>
> A current list of Jasig Members eligible to vote include the Institutional
> Members and Jasig Partners on the Jasig 
> wiki<https://wiki.jasig.org/display/JSG/Jasig+Members>
&

[uportal-dev] Jasig 2010 Elections - Call for Nominations

[Jonathan Markow]

Jasig is pleased to announce the opening of nominations for the Board of
Directors, the uPortal Steering Committee, and the CAS Steering Committee.

Jasig, Inc. is a non-profit, 501(c)3, international consortium of
educational institutions and commercial affiliates supporting
community-driven, open source software development and promoting open system
architectures for higher education.

JASIG BOARD

The Board is the group that manages strategic direction and policy for the
entire organization, oversees all projects and events, provides shared
infrastructure, and takes responsibility for the licensing and protection of
intellectual property.  The board also ensures that project management is
consistent with the organization’s mission, and makes sure that Jasig
operates within its fiscal resources.

The 2010 elections will fill four (4) vacant Director positions that will
result from an annual planned cycling of Board positions.  Board Directors
shall serve for a term of three years.  Board Directors may serve two
consecutive terms, if re-elected.



UPORTAL STEERING COMMITTEE

The uPortal Steering Committee will be filling two (2) stakeholder
positions.  uPortal Steering Committee members serve for a period of two
years and may be re-elected to a second consecutive term.

CAS STEERING COMMITTEE

The CAS Steering Committee will be filling three (3) open stakeholder
positions.  Committee members serve for a one-year period and may be
re-elected to a second consecutive term.

Steering committees serve as advocates for their project.  They exercise
strategic and operational oversight, encourage broadened support, and seek
to increase participation from the community.

REQUIREMENTS FOR SERVING

The slates for these committees are open to all.  While voting is conducted
by Jasig members, membership is not required to serve.

These committees, and board, meet in person at least twice a year at Jasig
events or at such times and places as designated by the Chair. Members are
expected to attend monthly meetings and regularly conduct business
electronically.  The Board of Directors meets monthly by
video-conference.  Directors
may phone in when they are not able to participate by video.  The other
committees meet monthly by teleconference.

Prospective board and committee members should be prepared to serve in a
proactive way.  If elected, they are asked to take on oversight
responsibilities, recruit others in the community to help out, when
appropriate, serve as spokespeople for the organization or project, and
occasionally lead initiatives on behalf of Jasig and its projects.  The time
commitment is manageable, usually amounting to several hours a month.  Some
key success factors are good communication skills and a keen desire to be
helpful!

Board and Committee members are not compensated for their work.  Nominees
will be expected to confirm that their organizational leadership approves of
this commitment of time if elected.

ELECTION PROCESS

Nominations for all positions must be emailed to electi...@ja-sig.org no
later than 5:00 PM EDT (GMT-4) on Wednesday, June 30, 2010.  As stated
earlier, anyone can be nominated to stand for election to these positions.
Self-nominations are also encouraged.  Receipt of any nomination you submit
will be confirmed.  The Jasig Election Coordinator will notify all nominees
and confirm their willingness and ability to run for election.  If they
agree, a short bio and a personal statement will be solicited and posted on
the Jasig wiki.

Following the nomination period, elections are scheduled to be conducted for
a period of two weeks via email, beginning Tuesday, July 6, 2010, with
results announced soon after Friday, July 16, 2010.  Votes will be submitted
by the designated Community Liaisons representing our member organizations.
 More complete directions for voting will follow.  Newly elected committee
members and board directors will join group meetings during the summer and
officially assume their new responsibilities in September, 2010.

A current list of Jasig Members eligible to vote include the Institutional
Members and Jasig Partners on the Jasig
wiki
.

Thank you very much for helping us present the most qualified slate of
candidates.  We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Deborah K. Smith, Election Coordinator and Jasig Administrator

CONCENTRA-CMS

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[uportal-dev] The Jasig Fall 2010 Unconference is Coming!

[Jonathan Markow]

*The Jasig Fall 2010* *Unconference* *is* *Coming!*

*DATES:*
October 18-20, Unconference sessions
October 21, Developer meetings

*PLACE:*
University of St. Francis
500 Wilcox St., Joliet, IL 60435

*REGISTRATION FEE:*
$225 - Jasig Members
$275 - Non-Members
(Includes Mon/Tue/Wed Lunch, and Snacks)
Registration will be opening soon.

*ACCOMMODATIONS*
Harrah's Joliet
151 N. Joliet Street, Joliet, IL
Reservation Line: 800-Harrahs (1-800-427-7247)
Hotel Direct #: (815) 740-7800
Room rate: $88.99 plus tax per room. Includes breakfast voucher for
breakfast in the Union Station Buffet.
Rooms must be booked by 10/3/2010 to get the guaranteed rate.
Reference group code "S1017JC" to get the special Jasig rate.

*WHAT'S AN UNCONFERENCE?!*

"An unconference is a conference where the content of the sessions is driven
and created by the participants, generally day-by-day during the course of
the event, rather than by a single organizer, or small group of organizers,
in advance." -Wikipedia

Jasig has always been about people coming together to share and learn in an
open environment, and this is what an "unconference" is all about.

This fall event will provide both spontaneous and planned opportunities to
collaborate on all Jasig community initiatives as well as initiatives from
other community open source projects. This year we plan to continue
discussions begun at the June Internet2/EDUCAUSE/Jasig Identity and Access
Management ACAMP, as well.

Mark your calendar and make plans to join us! More information about the
Unconference will be available soon.

*WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?*

It's up to you. Ideas people are talking about so far include the following:

Lightning Talks - Volunteers talk for up to 8 minutes. Any topic goes.
Workshops - Bring your uPortal, portlet, CAS, Bedework, or IdM code or
design or requirements and work on them with core developers.
Birds of a Feather Sessions - Discuss common interests, issues, problems
with colleagues.

Strategic Planning - What should Jasig be focused on next year? In three
years? Join the conversation.
Newbie? Meet the experts and get individualized help.
How-to's. How-not-to's. Tips and techniques.

The final schedule will be determined in real-time, interactively with the
attendees.

More information will be available soon. See you at the Unconference!

-The Fall 2010 Jasig Unconference Organizers

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[uportal-dev] uPortal and Content Management: Webinar Scheduled Next Week

[Jonathan Markow]

For uPortal users interested in continuing the discussion about potential
integration of content management features:

Feel free to join an upcoming webinar discussion hosted by Gauthier
Ubersfeld of Anyware Services, a content management system services provider
that has worked with uPortal with the University of Pierre and Marie Curie
and others.

The agenda is as follows:

- Review of
http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/uPortal+Content+Management+Integration
(External CMS section)
- Feedback on use cases proposed
- Feedback on technical issues raised
- Conclusion about the interest from attendees in such integration
- Plans for potential development/studies about external CMS integration

The event details are as follows:

Topic: Uportal and web CMS integration
Date: Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Time: 11:00 am, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)
Meeting Number: 737 255 887
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Re: [uportal-dev] Documentation Steward

[Jonathan Markow]

Good points, John.

Just to clarify for everybody, the jasig.org site was designed and is
managed for us by a hosting company (WebChuck Web), but the content is
determined by us.  And the hosting company has no responsibility for uPortal
documentation.Members of our community representing uPortal, CAS, and
Bedework have stepped up as volunteers to maintain sections of that site.  But
the purpose of the jasig.org site is communication and "marketing" more than
anything else.  It's not meant to be the main site for product
documentation.

Our wiki, on the other hand, is the place for shared documentation, user
manuals, etc. (www.ja-sig.org/wiki).  While the redesign last year of
jasig.org worked very well in creating order for that site, our wiki still
suffers from the disorganization that is characteristic of many wikis that
have grown organically over a long period of time.

I believe the role of the uPortal documentation steward should be to bring
order to the uPortal documentation sections of the wiki, to lead the effort
in establishing a logical framework for our documentation, and to oversee a
process for creating our documentation that incorporates contributions from
developers and users, just as you did in the early days of uPortal.  I agree
with you that this role does not require the incumbent to be a uPortal
expert.

-Jonathan

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:00 AM, John Fereira  wrote:

> Vangel V. Ajanovski wrote:
>
>
>> I don't think I have the right knowledge to start and organize the whole
>> effort, but I am willing to help and share what I can.
>>
>>
> In 2002 I attended one of the uPortal developers conferences, mostly to
> learn more about uPortal and ended up volunteering to take on the role of
> uPortal documentation coordinator.  I certainly didn't have much knowledge
> about uPortal at the time but I wasn't *writing* documentation about
> uPortal, I was only trying to keep it organized.  A couple of years later we
> started using Confluence and most of the uPortal documentation on static
> html pages was used to the wiki, and over time lots of pages where created
> but as is the case with most wikis it became disorganized.  That was
> addressed somewhat with the creation of the uPortal manual spaces, and then
> evolved again when work on the main Jasig site and uPortal/CAS sites was
> contracted out.  I'm not sure how the uPortal Documentation steward role
> will be defined today, now that some of the uPortal documentation is being
> managed by a commerical entity, but when I was coordinating it, it was all
> on my own time purely on a volunteer basis.  My organization did provide
> some support of my uPortal/Jasig activities by funding participation in
> conferences but that's not happening anymore and since I'm no longer doing
> any work with  uPortal, and other Jasig projects, my participation in the
> community, other than supporting the conference web site, is almost
> non-existent at this point.
>
> I guess what I'm suggesting is that a uPortal Documentation steward
> position doesn't necessarily require a great deal of knowledge about uPortal
> but it may require a significant commitment in time to do it successfully.
>
>
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Re: [uportal-dev] Documentation Steward

[Jonathan Markow]

Vangel-

Thanks for the excellent suggestions.  We definitely hope to harness the
power of the uPortal community to accomplish these goals.

-Jonathan

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Vangel V. Ajanovski wrote:

>  On 05/13/2010 06:50 PM, Eric Dalquist wrote:
>
> uPortal experts within the community would fill in those placeholders with
> the appropriate content. Our hope with this approach is that the core
> uPortal development team can then better focus its documentation efforts on
> filling in the information that they are best at while relying on another
> person or group to help in the area outside of their expertise, structuring
> and organizing the manual content.
>
> From a deployers view, I think that I should tell that with uPortal 3
> manual everything looks better and more clear and better organized than the
> case was in 2004-5 when I first started with it. So it definitely seems it
> is going in a better direction. But the wiki space is (looks) the same, with
> many documents that noone knows if they are relevant or not.
>
> So, I have a small suggestion for a possible way to do better, no matter
> who will do it.
> Supposedly uPortal has a pretty large university community. So, involve the
> community. More!
> Start by sending this message on the users list (I have not seen it there).
>
> The manual is a good start for someone who is just ... starting. And I
> think that as it is, that's good enough to get arround to start with the
> quickstart, configure basic things like authentication, database, or start
> from source up to a basic portal. But really, really good documention set
> for things that are a bit more special is lacking. In the previous years I
> have scooped information from powerpoint slides, blogs, mailing lists and
> scattered wiki pages. Wiki pages seemed least helpful because it was never
> clear for which version of uPortal were they intended and in which version
> they indeed worked. That was not good and should be addressed.
>
> So, I think that a good start for doing that is to start from scratch with
> the wiki and do two main pages.
> Main page for total beginners and advanced main page for advanced users who
> were finally able to start it all up, worked with it a bit and want to
> customize something special.
>
> The page for total beginners should have clear links with big letters to
> separate administrator and user guides.
>
> The advanced page should have a map or an index of all the possible topics
> or all possible features of uPortal. But I really mean all the possible and
> not just the ones that are documented. Of course this can only be done from
> scratch by developers, because they are the only who know what types of
> tricks and tips would be possible. Whan kind of customizations would be
> possible, etc...
>
> Then, it should be left to the whole community and not just the developers
> to write it and fill it with information. Do it the classical Wiki way.
>
> The next step would be to invite the whole community to fill in the pages
> behind bullets. By "fill in" I mean either put a few notes as to where to
> look for information, or just a comment that if this is not documented or
> not clear - one should ask on the mailing list, or try to document how one
> has achieved that. I really think that if you constantly invite and ask the
> community for help, the whole thing will start and once it is started, the
> community will rise.
>
> By constant invites, I mean inviting (with big letters) on the site on
> every page and also with messages sent to users on the mailing lists
> regularly. How? Well take a practice that whener someone asks a question and
> this question was solver, one should invite this person to try to fill a
> document on the wiki what has he done, or what was wrong on the wiki or what
> was misplaced etc.
> The clue is to get everyone motivated to share the information they know.
>
> Then the role of the otherwise too busy developers would be just to just
> sometimes click "Agree" on the written docs (and thereby endorse them as
> official document) or modify bits and pieces or put just a note that this
> definitely works on uPortal x.x.x.
>
> This way the one(s) responsible for the content organization will be
> required to just monitor the mailing lists for possible new features or
> topics that are worth documenting, monitor for spam and abuse, and from time
> to time send out motivational emails why documenting things is good.
>
> I would apply for this, I will be doing transition to 3.x this summer and I
> will have to document everything I do. So if I have to document it anyway,
> why wouldn't I document it in public... right?
> I think this approach could work if everyone that did something useful or
> special would share the documentation.
>
> I don't think I have the right knowledge to start and organize the whole
> effort, but I am willing to help and share what I can.
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Re: [uportal-dev] grouper integration

[Jonathan Markow]

Thanks, Alain.  I'm hoping we can work towards Grouper/uPortal solutions
that will meet everyone's needs.

Best,
Jonathan


On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Alain Mayeur <
alain.may...@univ-valenciennes.fr> wrote:

> Hi Jonathan
>
> Thanks to have given this contacts and informations  from ESCO and ESUP
>
> As you know, important work has been done by the   RECIA structure  for
> ESCO-Portail (based on U-portal )
> to develop group management with "grouper" software in connection with the
> portal.
>
> This year the ESUP-Portail consortium has put a priority task to adapt this
>  work  for group management for higher education in ESUP-portail
>
>
>
> Chris you can develop exchanges on these actions; we have  same objectives
>
> Technical coordination of ESUP-portail is ensured by  Raymond Bourges; the
> contact for RECIA/ESCO is:  Christian Daviau
>
> Bests
>
> Alain
>
>
> Le 29 avr. 10 à 20:26, Jonathan Markow a écrit :
>
> Hi Chris-
>
> Many thanks for offering to take this on!  You may be aware that our
> colleagues in France with the ESUP- and ESCO-Portail consortia have an
> interest in this work too and have done some prior work already.  In the
> interests of getting everyone on the same page, I've cc'ed Alain Mayeur,
> director of ESUP-Portail.  I'm hoping everyone who has something to add to
> this discussion will join in here.
>
> I'm looking forward to seeing progress on this work and I know quite a few
> others on this list are too.  Thanks again.
>
> Best,
> Jonathan
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Chris Hyzer wrote:
>
>>  Hey,
>>
>>
>> I’m Chris Hyzer from the University of Pennsylvania and on the Grouper
>> development team, and I am interested in coding a uPortal-Grouper
>> integration module.
>>
>>
>> I spoke with Andrew Petro at the Internet2 conference yesterday about this
>> and he suggested I write the dev list to see if people have input.
>>
>>
>> My plan is to start with Chicago’s uPortal-Grouper implementation which I
>> heard is readonly, and add some update functionality.  We can see how well
>> that works, and from there see what else can be handled by Grouper.   There
>> are some gaps between uPortal’s group functionality and what is offered out
>> of the box by Grouper (e.g. attribute driven dynamic memberships, text file
>> driven group lists, etc), so we can address things like that to see if it is
>> a requirement and if we can enhance Grouper to support it (these two sound
>> either useful or easy to do with Grouper).  It has been mentioned that if
>> this integration works well, and if uPortal wants to get out of the Group
>> business that Grouper could be shipped with uPortal similar to how CAS is.
>> I know this might sound controversial to some people, so let’s see how it
>> goes and think about how this might work and if we want to do it.
>>
>>
>> I believe Jen Bourey is expecting to provide support for me, and I might
>> be asking the list for help as well especially since I am new to uPortal.
>> J
>>
>>
>> I am wrapping up a release of Grouper now and hope to start development on
>> this in a month or more.   I thought I would throw this out now if there is
>> discussion around it.
>>
>>
>> Thoughts?  Questions?  Advice?
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
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Re: [uportal-dev] grouper integration

[Jonathan Markow]

Hi Chris-

Many thanks for offering to take this on!  You may be aware that our
colleagues in France with the ESUP- and ESCO-Portail consortia have an
interest in this work too and have done some prior work already.  In the
interests of getting everyone on the same page, I've cc'ed Alain Mayeur,
director of ESUP-Portail.  I'm hoping everyone who has something to add to
this discussion will join in here.

I'm looking forward to seeing progress on this work and I know quite a few
others on this list are too.  Thanks again.

Best,
Jonathan


On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Chris Hyzer  wrote:

>  Hey,
>
>
>
> I’m Chris Hyzer from the University of Pennsylvania and on the Grouper
> development team, and I am interested in coding a uPortal-Grouper
> integration module.
>
>
>
> I spoke with Andrew Petro at the Internet2 conference yesterday about this
> and he suggested I write the dev list to see if people have input.
>
>
>
> My plan is to start with Chicago’s uPortal-Grouper implementation which I
> heard is readonly, and add some update functionality.  We can see how well
> that works, and from there see what else can be handled by Grouper.   There
> are some gaps between uPortal’s group functionality and what is offered out
> of the box by Grouper (e.g. attribute driven dynamic memberships, text file
> driven group lists, etc), so we can address things like that to see if it is
> a requirement and if we can enhance Grouper to support it (these two sound
> either useful or easy to do with Grouper).  It has been mentioned that if
> this integration works well, and if uPortal wants to get out of the Group
> business that Grouper could be shipped with uPortal similar to how CAS is.
> I know this might sound controversial to some people, so let’s see how it
> goes and think about how this might work and if we want to do it.
>
>
>
> I believe Jen Bourey is expecting to provide support for me, and I might be
> asking the list for help as well especially since I am new to uPortal.  J
>
>
>
> I am wrapping up a release of Grouper now and hope to start development on
> this in a month or more.   I thought I would throw this out now if there is
> discussion around it.
>
>
>
> Thoughts?  Questions?  Advice?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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[uportal-dev] Jasig 2010 Camtasia Relay Screencasts Are Online

[Jonathan Markow]

TechSmith, a sponsor of the Tenth Anniversary Jasig 2010 Conference,
captured several of our presentations with Camtasia Relay and are hosting
them online for us at screencast.com.

The screencasts include both slides and audio, and you are now able to view
them at http://www.screencast.com/t/N2Q0MDc2M.

We wish we could have included more, but the ones that are available are
terrific.  Thanks, TechSmith!

Enjoy,
Jonathan
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[uportal-dev] April 15th uPortal Community Call - More Information

[Jonathan Markow]

Please join us this Thursday for the April uPortal Community Call at 8:30am
Pacific,  11:30am Eastern,  16:30 BST.

Click on the Adobe Connect URL provided by our host, University of
Wisconsin--Madison, for the video portion of the call:
http://wisc.na4.acrobat.com/uportal/

The separate conference call lines for the audio portion are as follows:

US Conference Dial-in Number: (712) 432-1600
  Participant Access Code: 548898#

The following is a list of international dial-in numbers for this call.
International callers should use the same participant access code to connect
to the conference (548898#):

 France: 0826 100 256
 Spain: 902 886025
 UK: 0844 58 191 02

Finally, we invite you to review a wiki page with some uPortal Content
Management scenarios for discussion during the call:
http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/uom8AQ.  Please feel free to add your own use
cases, comments, and questions to this page.  (This requires an account on
our wiki, which you can request by emailing me with a preferred userID and
fullname.)

On behalf of the uPortal Steering Committee,
Jonathan
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On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Jonathan Markow  wrote:

> The April uPortal Community Call will be hosted by the University of
> Wisconsin--Madison:
>
> Date:   Thursday, April 15
> Time:  8:30am Pacific,  11:30am Eastern,  16:30 BST
>
> Once again, we will use Adobe Connect on the call.  The connection URL will
> be http://wisc.na4.acrobat.com/uportal/.
>
> We will use a separate conference call line for the audio portion--details
> to be provided early next week.
>
> April's agenda is as follows:
>
>- Introduction/Announcements
>- uPortal 3.3 update
>- Content Management in uPortal:  Community Discussion
>- University of California--Irvine portlet demos
>- Q & A
>
> The uPortal Content Management discussion will focus on use cases presented
> by people with an interest in seeing web content management features
> becoming available in the portal.  What should that look like?  We welcome
> your input on this topic.  Next week we will make a wiki page available for
> your comments.
>
> We hope you are able to join us on April 15th!
>
> On behalf of the uPortal Steering Committee,
> Jonathan Markow
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>
>
>
>
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[uportal-dev] April uPortal Community Call - April 15

[Jonathan Markow]

The April uPortal Community Call will be hosted by the University of
Wisconsin--Madison:

Date:   Thursday, April 15
Time:  8:30am Pacific,  11:30am Eastern,  16:30 BST

Once again, we will use Adobe Connect on the call.  The connection URL will
be http://wisc.na4.acrobat.com/uportal/.

We will use a separate conference call line for the audio portion--details
to be provided early next week.

April's agenda is as follows:

   - Introduction/Announcements
   - uPortal 3.3 update
   - Content Management in uPortal:  Community Discussion
   - University of California--Irvine portlet demos
   - Q & A

The uPortal Content Management discussion will focus on use cases presented
by people with an interest in seeing web content management features
becoming available in the portal.  What should that look like?  We welcome
your input on this topic.  Next week we will make a wiki page available for
your comments.

We hope you are able to join us on April 15th!

On behalf of the uPortal Steering Committee,
Jonathan Markow
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[uportal-dev] New Jasig Community of Practice: .NET, Open Source, and Higher Education

[Jonathan Markow]

 Building on the recent activity around the .NET CAS Client, Jasig is
exploring supporting a new Community of Practice[1] around .NET and
Open Source in Higher Education.

If you are interested in helping to build a community, sharing
experiences, and potentially collaborating on open source .NET projects
such as CasOwa[2] and the .NET CAS Client[3], please join the
dotnet-discuss mailing list at Jasig:

http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/dotnet-discuss

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_practice
[2] http://github.com/wgthom/CasOwa
[3]
http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASC/.NET+CAS+Client+Vision+and+Roadmap

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[uportal-dev] uPortal and Web Content Management

[Jonathan Markow]

uPortal Users:

The uPortal Steering Committee is interested in hearing from uPortal users
about whether there is interest in integrated web content management within
uPortal.  Specifically, we would like to know what features you would find
useful if WCM were implemented inside the portal.

To collect this information we plan to schedule one or two focus groups by
phone, and we'd like to encourage your participation if this is a need on
your campus.  Alternatively, a description of desirable use cases for
portal-based content management would also serve our purpose, if you'd
prefer to use email.

To clarify, while there has not yet been any commitment from developers to
allocate time to this kind of work, there has been enough interest expressed
by both developers and users to warrant our spending some time investigating
early options.

For one thing, there is a portlet currently in the Jasig Incubator,
contributed by Misagh Moayyed, that, while incomplete, shows good potential
for providing a subset of lightweight, stand-alone content management.
 Developers are encouraged to review the work that's been done there to date
and to let us know if there is interest in collaborating on further
development of this portlet.

We are also examining some other options for integrating existing WCMS
applications inside uPortal.  Before we get too far with this, we could use
your feedback on what that kind of integration should look like.

So please let us know if you are interested in discussing this subject in
more detail, participating in a focus group, or simply expressing to us your
requirements for integration.  Emails may be sent to the uPortal Steering
Committee, cc'ed above.

Thanks,
Jonathan
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[uportal-dev] Two Online Jasig Seminars This Sunday

[Jonathan Markow]

Jasig is happy to announce the availability of an online participation
option for the following two seminars, which are being held at our annual
conference this weekend.  The online option will be a combination of
presentation slides and two-way audio.  Remote attendees will be able to
take part in all aspects of the seminars:

   - User Interface Development with
jQuery<http://www.ja-sig.org/jasigconf/popAbstract.jsp?conf_id=jasig17&id=286ec2c0>(Sunday,
8:30am-12:00pm Pacific Time)
   - Implementing
CAS<http://www.ja-sig.org/jasigconf/popAbstract.jsp?conf_id=jasig17&id=685f7c45>(Sunday,
1:00pm-4:30pm Pacific Time)

A registration fee of $150 *per person* is required to attend a virtual
seminar.  Please contact Jenn Cummings at 303.254.6600 or
j...@concentra-cms.com *prior to 2:00PM Eastern time Friday, March 5*, to
register.

For information on software system requirements, please refer to
http://www.readytalk.com/support/system-requirements.php.  Attendees will be
given a toll-free US number and an access code for the audio portion of the
online seminar.
Please note:  This is a pilot program for us.  While we are confident that
the ReadyTalk solution is an effective one, Jasig will offer a full refund
if your experience is less than satisfactory.

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[uportal-dev] Reminder: February uPortal Community Call Tomorrow

[Jonathan Markow]

uPortal Community:

Join us tomorrow for the February uPortal Community Call.  We've confirmed
that non-USA callers can use Skype to connect to the audio portion of the
webinar.  Details below.

On behalf of the uPortal Steering Committee,
Jonathan
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On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Jonathan Markow  wrote:

> The uPortal Steering Committee invites you to join us on our next uPortal
> Community Call, which will be held as a webinar, hosted by The Johns Hopkins
> University, on Thursday, February 18, at 1:00pm EST. (Instructions below)
>
> Agenda:
>
>- uPortal 3.2. Details of the 3.2 release, including uPortal's mobile
>theme, will be discussed
>- We will present features planned for the uPortal 3.3 release
>- In the first of a series of planned online demos, The Johns Hopkins
>Information Technology group will give us a walk-through of their 
> enterprise
>portal
>- Questions and discussion will follow the presentation
>
> For future calls, we invite you to share your work with the uPortal
> community by volunteering to present a short online demo of your
> institution's portal  Or, if you have developed a portlet that has been
> particularly useful on your campus, please offer to show that to us, as
> well.  Finally, we are looking for schools that are able to host future
> online webinars. If you think your facilities might accommodate us, please
> let us know!  Send your email to uportal-steering-committee at lists.jasig
> dot org.
>
> Instructions for connecting to the webinar (Requires Adobe Flash):
>
>1. Connection URL: http://connect.johnshopkins.edu/myjh
>2. Select the "Enter as a Guest" radio button, type your name, and
>click the "Enter Room" button.
>3. Read and accept the disclaimer (Click the "OK" button).
>4. A request to enter the meeting will be sent to the moderator.
>5. Once accepted, you will enter the uPortal Roadmap Webinar room.
>
> A dial-in call will be required for the audio portion:
>
> USA Number: +1.415.228.4883
> Toll Free Number: +1.888.324.6990
> Participant passcode: UPORTAL (An operator will prompt you for this)
>
>

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[uportal-dev] Jasig 2010 Hotel Discount Extended

[Jonathan Markow]

*Jasig 2010: "Ten Years of Open Source Innovation"*

When: March 8 - 10, 2010
  Supplementary Seminars March 7th and 10th
  Developer Days, March 11 - 12

Where: Town and Country Resort
San Diego, CA

Our conference hotel will extend its guaranteed group discount through
Friday, February 12th.  After that, the group rate will be available based
on the availability of rooms.

Register here:  http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/10spring/index.html. Register
now!

-Jasig March 2010 Conference Planning Committee

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[uportal-dev] February uPortal Community Call

[Jonathan Markow]

The uPortal Steering Committee invites you to join us on our next uPortal
Community Call, which will be held as a webinar, hosted by The Johns Hopkins
University, on Thursday, February 18, at 1:00pm EST. (Instructions below)

Agenda:

   - uPortal 3.2. Details of the 3.2 release, including uPortal's mobile
   theme, will be discussed
   - We will present features planned for the uPortal 3.3 release
   - In the first of a series of planned online demos, The Johns Hopkins
   Information Technology group will give us a walk-through of their enterprise
   portal
   - Questions and discussion will follow the presentation

For future calls, we invite you to share your work with the uPortal
community by volunteering to present a short online demo of your
institution's portal  Or, if you have developed a portlet that has been
particularly useful on your campus, please offer to show that to us, as
well.  Finally, we are looking for schools that are able to host future
online webinars. If you think your facilities might accommodate us, please
let us know!  Send your email to uportal-steering-committee at lists.jasig
dot org.

Instructions for connecting to the webinar (Requires Adobe Flash):

   1. Connection URL: http://connect.johnshopkins.edu/myjh
   2. Select the "Enter as a Guest" radio button, type your name, and click
   the "Enter Room" button.
   3. Read and accept the disclaimer (Click the "OK" button).
   4. A request to enter the meeting will be sent to the moderator.
   5. Once accepted, you will enter the uPortal Roadmap Webinar room.

A dial-in call will be required for the audio portion:

USA Number: +1.415.228.4883
Toll Free Number: +1.888.324.6990
Participant passcode: UPORTAL (An operator will prompt you for this)

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[uportal-dev] Jasig Software Licensing Information for Institutions

[Jonathan Markow]

Developers-

Most of you are aware of Jasig's move to Apache 2.0 licensing for its
software products (http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/u4WcAQ), and many of you
have already complied with the request to submit an Individual Contributor
License Agreement.  You may also know that the institutions and corporations
that employ our developers are asked to sign a Corporate Contributor License
Agreement.

While some of our participating institutions are familiar with this kind of
request, others are not and have had questions about the agreement and its
implications.  To address these, we have asked Tracy Mitrano, at Cornell, to
be available via a teleconference not yet scheduled.  Tracy is
Cornell's Director
of IT Policy and a co-director of the EDUCAUSE/Cornell Institute for
Computer Policy and Law.  She has extensive experience assisting Cornell
with issues pertaining to institutional and developer participation in open
source projects.  While not able to offer legal advice, she has agreed to
answer other questions about your institution's involvement in our projects.

Before scheduling a time for this teleconference, we would like to get a
sense of how many schools would be interested in attending.  Please let us
know if there is interest at your institution by sending an email to info at
jasig dot org by Friday, February 19th.

General questions about licensing may be addressed to licensing at jasig dot
org.

Thanks,
Jonathan
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[uportal-dev] Last Days for "Early Bird" Jasig Conference Registration

[Jonathan Markow]

*Last Days for "Early Bird" Jasig Conference Registration*

Discounts on registration and hotel through January 31st:
http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/10spring/index.html

Fourteen Higher Education Open Source Projects!

  March 8 - 10, 2010
  Supplementary Seminars March 7th and 10th
  Developer Days, March 11 - 12

  Town and Country Resort
  San Diego,California

Register now for savings!

-Jasig 2010 Spring Conference Planning Committee


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Fwd: [uportal-dev] Fwd: [cas-user] HA + Inspektr / ClearPass + OWA

[Jonathan Markow]

I'm cross-posting this response from the uportal-dev list for the benefit of
cas-user subscribers...
-Jonathan

-- Forwarded message --
From: Jennifer Bourey 
Date: Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [uportal-dev] Fwd: [cas-user] HA + Inspektr / ClearPass + OWA
To: uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org


The patch isn't huge, but it does change the CAS SecurityContext
implementation and might affect custom work some institutions have
performed.  After the patch is applied, the CAS filters also must be
configured a bit differently in the web.xml.

Since the patch touches APIs that some adopters may be using, and since it
affects the basic configuration of things like hostnames, I'd recommend that
we don't make this change in the 3.2 maintenance branch.  That said, I think
individual institutions interested in using CAS ClearPass should be able to
apply the patch to their individual codebases.

- Jen


On Jan 25, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Eric Dalquist wrote:

 Not that I know of, I'm not sure as to the extent of the changes needed to
make the new feature work.

On 01/25/2010 12:38 PM, Jonathan Markow wrote:

FYI.  Are there plans to apply the ClearPass related patch to any earlier uP
releases?

Thanks,
Jonathan

-- Forwarded message --
From: Scott Battaglia 
Date: Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [cas-user] HA + Inspektr / ClearPass + OWA
To: cas-u...@lists.jasig.org


The patch to allow uPortal to use the Jasig CAS Client should be compatible
with uPortal 3.1.x, but it was only applied to the 3.2 branch.  That patch
is needed to work with uPortal and ClearPass.



 On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Curtis Garman wrote:

> Does this method ( cas clearpass extention) work for uportal 3.1.x?
> Can I casify OWA by simply adding the clearpass stuff in cas 3.3.4 or
> is it necessary have uportal 3.2 installed?
>
>  On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Francisco Estanqueiro
>
>   wrote:
> > Looks great. I'm going to test it soon, so you'll be hearing from me (at
> > least to say thanks).
> >
> > Francisco
> >
> > William G. Thompson, Jr. wrote:
> >>
> >> Some more info on CAS Client for OWA (CasOwa)
> >>
> >> CasOwa provides Jasig CAS integration with Microsoft Outlook Web
> >> Access (OWA).  It is implemented as a thin wrapper around Jasig
> >> DotNetCas Client.  CasOwa works with the CAS ClearPass extension to
> >> securely retrieve the users credentials via Proxy Tickets and then
> >> replays them to the OWA Auth URL in order to authenticate the user
> >> with OWA.  Once the user is authenticated, CasOwa sets the OWA
> >> authentication cookies on the browser and redirects to user's OWA
> >> inbox.
> >>
> >> Requirements
> >> * CAS Server with ClearPass extension configured to accepted
> >> ProxyTickets from CasOwa.
> >>
> >> Installation
> >> Deploy CasOwa in its Virtual Directory on the same IIS server that is
> >> running.  This is to ensure that the authentication cookies set by
> >> CasOwa will be visible to OWA.  Managed Pipeline Mode for this Virtual
> >> Directory should be set to Integrated.
> >>
> >> Http HandlerMappings
> >> CasOwa requires two HandlerMapping configurations, one for
> >> CasOwaAuthHandler and one for the DotNetCasProxyCallback.
> >>
> >>CasOwaAuthHandler Mapping
> >>Request path: auth
> >>Type: CasOwa.CasOwaAuthHandler
> >>Name: CasOwaAuthHandler
> >>
> >>DotNetCasProxyCallback Mapping
> >>Request path: proxyCallback
> >>Type: CasOwa.CasOwaAuthHandler
> >>Name: DotNetCasProxyCallback
> >>
> >> Http Modules
> >> CasOwa requires one Http Module configuration for the DotNetCasClient.
> >>
> >>DotNetCasClient Module
> >>Name: DotNetCasClient
> >>Type: DotNetCasClient.CasAlternateAuthModule
> >>[checked] Invoke only for requests to ASP.NET applications or
> >> managed handlers
> >>
> >> Web.conf
> >> Web.conf contains two sets of configurations that must be correct.
> >> One is for the DotNetCasClient the other is
> >> for CasOwa.
> >>
> >>CasOwa Config
> >>
> >> >> value="https://{cashost}/cas/clearPass";<https://%7Bcashost%7D/cas/clearPass>
> />
> >> >> value="https://{owahost}/owa"; <https://%7Bowahost%7D/owa>/>
> >> >> valu

[uportal-dev] Fwd: [cas-user] HA + Inspektr / ClearPass + OWA

[Jonathan Markow]

FYI.  Are there plans to apply the ClearPass related patch to any earlier uP
releases?

Thanks,
Jonathan

-- Forwarded message --
From: Scott Battaglia 
Date: Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [cas-user] HA + Inspektr / ClearPass + OWA
To: cas-u...@lists.jasig.org


The patch to allow uPortal to use the Jasig CAS Client should be compatible
with uPortal 3.1.x, but it was only applied to the 3.2 branch.  That patch
is needed to work with uPortal and ClearPass.



On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Curtis Garman wrote:

>  Does this method ( cas clearpass extention) work for uportal 3.1.x?
> Can I casify OWA by simply adding the clearpass stuff in cas 3.3.4 or
> is it necessary have uportal 3.2 installed?
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Francisco Estanqueiro
>
>  wrote:
> > Looks great. I'm going to test it soon, so you'll be hearing from me (at
> > least to say thanks).
> >
> > Francisco
> >
> > William G. Thompson, Jr. wrote:
> >>
> >> Some more info on CAS Client for OWA (CasOwa)
> >>
> >> CasOwa provides Jasig CAS integration with Microsoft Outlook Web
> >> Access (OWA).  It is implemented as a thin wrapper around Jasig
> >> DotNetCas Client.  CasOwa works with the CAS ClearPass extension to
> >> securely retrieve the users credentials via Proxy Tickets and then
> >> replays them to the OWA Auth URL in order to authenticate the user
> >> with OWA.  Once the user is authenticated, CasOwa sets the OWA
> >> authentication cookies on the browser and redirects to user's OWA
> >> inbox.
> >>
> >> Requirements
> >> * CAS Server with ClearPass extension configured to accepted
> >> ProxyTickets from CasOwa.
> >>
> >> Installation
> >> Deploy CasOwa in its Virtual Directory on the same IIS server that is
> >> running.  This is to ensure that the authentication cookies set by
> >> CasOwa will be visible to OWA.  Managed Pipeline Mode for this Virtual
> >> Directory should be set to Integrated.
> >>
> >> Http HandlerMappings
> >> CasOwa requires two HandlerMapping configurations, one for
> >> CasOwaAuthHandler and one for the DotNetCasProxyCallback.
> >>
> >>CasOwaAuthHandler Mapping
> >>Request path: auth
> >>Type: CasOwa.CasOwaAuthHandler
> >>Name: CasOwaAuthHandler
> >>
> >>DotNetCasProxyCallback Mapping
> >>Request path: proxyCallback
> >>Type: CasOwa.CasOwaAuthHandler
> >>Name: DotNetCasProxyCallback
> >>
> >> Http Modules
> >> CasOwa requires one Http Module configuration for the DotNetCasClient.
> >>
> >>DotNetCasClient Module
> >>Name: DotNetCasClient
> >>Type: DotNetCasClient.CasAlternateAuthModule
> >>[checked] Invoke only for requests to ASP.NET applications or
> >> managed handlers
> >>
> >> Web.conf
> >> Web.conf contains two sets of configurations that must be correct.
> >> One is for the DotNetCasClient the other is
> >> for CasOwa.
> >>
> >>CasOwa Config
> >>
> >> >> value="https://{cashost}/cas/clearPass"/>
> >> >> value="https://{owahost}/owa"/>
> >> >> value="true" />
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>DotNetCasClient Config
> >> >> casServerLoginUrl="https://{cashost}/cascp/login";
> >>
> >> serverName="https://{owahost}"; secureUriRegex="(?i)/auth"
> >>
> >> casServerUrlPrefix="https://{cashost}/cas/";
> >>
> >> redirectAfterValidation="false" useSession="false"
> >> gateway="false" renew="false"
> >>
> >> ticketValidatorName="Cas20" ticketTimeTolerance="5000"
> >> singleSignOut="false"
> >>
> >> proxyGrantingTicketReceptor="true"
> >>
> >> proxyCallbackUrl="https://{owahost}/coa/proxyCallback";
> >>
> >> proxyReceptorUrl="/coa/proxyCallback" />
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:31 PM, William G. Thompson, Jr.
> >>  wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> CAS Client for OWA (CasOwa) is up on GitHub:
> >>>  http://github.com/wgthom/CasOwa
> >>>
> >>> Requires ClearPass and  I've only tested it against OWA 2007.
> >>>
> >>> Look in web.conf for some app settings and the cas client config.
> >>>
> >>> Bill
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Francisco Estanqueiro
> >>>  wrote:
> >>>
> 
>  Hi again,
>  two quick questions:
> 
>  a) the stats created by inspektr in a clustered environment (2 servers
>  only), only gives the stats of the current server, right?
>  b) a while ago I read that ClearPass (I dont know where..) was the
>  solution
>  to CASify Outlook Web Access. Has anyone done this or knows how to do
>  it?
> 
>  Thanks again,
> 
>  Francisco Estanqueiro
>  Faculdade de Ciências - Universidade de Lisboa
> 
> 
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> 
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> 

[uportal-dev] February uPortal Community Call

[Jonathan Markow]

The next uPortal Community Call is scheduled for February 18th, 1:00pm EST.

Once again, the call will be in the form of an online webinar, which will be
hosted by The Johns Hopkins University.

Agenda:

   - uPortal 3.2.  Details of the 3.2 release, including uPortal's mobile
   theme, will be discussed
   - We will present features planned for the uPortal 3.3 release
   - In the first of a series of online demos, The Johns Hopkins Information
   Technology group will give us a walk-through of  their enterprise portal
   - Questions and discussion will follow the presentation

Details for connecting to the webinar will follow in early February.
Future uPortal Community Calls

We invite you to share your work with the uPortal community by volunteering
to present a short online demo of your institution's portal.

Or, if your school has developed a portlet that has been particularly useful
on your campus, please offer to show that to us, as well.

Finally, we are looking for schools that are able to host future online
webinars.  If you think your facilities might accommodate us, please let us
know!

Send your email to uportal-steering-committee at lists.jasig.org.

Thanks,

uPortal Steering Committee

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[uportal-dev] UPDATE: Jasig Server Restored

[Jonathan Markow]

The Jasig server is back up as of 9pm EST.  All services are restored.
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On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Jonathan Markow  wrote:

> Work is still in progress at our host site this evening to restore the
> Jasig server.  We will provide another progress report when the status has
> changed.
>
> Again, apologies for the lengthy inconvenience.
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> * "Open for Higher Education"*
>  New York, NY
>  646-867-3137
>  www.jasig.org
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Jonathan Markow wrote:
>
>> One of the servers hosting Jasig resources failed to come up correctly
>> after maintenance this morning. We are currently working with the
>> manufacturer to resolve the issue but do not yet have an estimate of when
>> service will be restored.
>>
>> The following resources are unavailable at this time:
>> - Release downloads
>> - Confluence wiki
>> - Jira bug tracker
>> - Maven repository
>> - Subversion
>> - Conference registration
>> - Project documentation
>>
>> We will post updates on our web site at http://www.jasig.org and will
>> send a follow up email when service has been restored.
>>
>> We apologize for this unexpected inconvenience,
>>
>> Jasig Infrastructure Team
>
>
>

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[uportal-dev] UPDATE: Jasig Server Outage

[Jonathan Markow]

Work is still in progress at our host site this evening to restore the Jasig
server.  We will provide another progress report when the status has
changed.

Again, apologies for the lengthy inconvenience.
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On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Jonathan Markow  wrote:

> One of the servers hosting Jasig resources failed to come up correctly
> after maintenance this morning. We are currently working with the
> manufacturer to resolve the issue but do not yet have an estimate of when
> service will be restored.
>
> The following resources are unavailable at this time:
> - Release downloads
> - Confluence wiki
> - Jira bug tracker
> - Maven repository
> - Subversion
> - Conference registration
> - Project documentation
>
> We will post updates on our web site at http://www.jasig.org and will send
> a follow up email when service has been restored.
>
> We apologize for this unexpected inconvenience,
>
> Jasig Infrastructure Team

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[uportal-dev] Reminder: Hotel Deadline for Jasig Unconference!

[Jonathan Markow]

Register now for the 2009 Jasig Unconference at the University of Illinois -
Urbana-Champaign.
"A Champaign Conference at Ginger Ale Prices!"

Discounted rates at the Conference Center iHotel expire on Thursday, August
27th.

Take this opportunity to meet up with the experts in a variety of open
source technologies.
Discuss uPortal, CAS, OpenRegistry, Bedework, ESUP Helpdesk.
Bring your technical issues and problems

If you're planning to join us, please do the following:

   1. Register for the Unconference right here:
   https://www.concentra-cms.com/register/start.action?confId=43
   2. Visit and Add your Name on the Unconference Planning Site on the Jasig
   wiki. This is a great place to indicate your interests---what you'd like to
   discuss, learn, share or teach: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/O4eUAQ
   3. Reserve a room online at the iHotel and Conference Center:
   Register online by August 27th: http://www.stayatthei.com
   Make sure you enter the Jasig attendee code to get the group rate: AJSG
   More info can be found here: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/QYeUAQ
   4. Make travel arrangements. Tips are available here:
   http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/QoeUAQ

See you at the Jasig Unconference,
The Fall 2009 Unconference Organizers

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[uportal-dev] Portlet Release Manager

[Jonathan Markow]

Last year Jasig began to focus more directly on encouraging collaboration
among institutions for the purpose of contributing to a free, open source
library of shared portlets.  We currently have a number of such portlets in
incubation and available for production use.

Our goal is to add to these portlets, to provide a robust infrastructure for
their development, to ensure that the portlets continue to be maintained,
and to keep them portable across all standards compliant portals. Our hope
is that we will attract work that is particularly useful for higher
education institutions, including portlets that feature integration with a
number of external campus systems.

To assist developers in working towards these ends we have recently created
a volunteer position of "Portlet Release Manager" with the following
responsibilities:

   - Help define, review, and document release requirements and best
   practices for adopted Jasig portlets
   - Help define, review, and document portlet development best practices to
   encourage implementation of JSR-168/JSR-286 standards and compatibility with
   multiple portlet containers and versions
   - Assist developers in transitioning their portlets from incubation to
   sponsorship
   - Assist developers in effectively using Jasig portlet project resources
   such as the Jasig parent POM and maven repository
   - Coordinate with the uPortal release manager, developers, and Steering
   Committee to recommend and update the portlets and portlet versions shipped
   with uPortal releases
   - As the community defines requirements for a standalone portlet bundle,
   assist with managing and releasing that hypothetical future product

We are very pleased to announce that Jen Bourey, from Unicon, has agreed to
serve as Jasig Portlet Release Manager.  Jen has been active in the uPortal
community for a number of years, both while at Yale University and in her
current position at Unicon.  She has been a uPortal committer, a portlet
author, and someone who has generously offered support on our lists to both
uPortal implementors and portlet developers.

Jen will be monitoring the portlet-user and portlet-dev lists.  If you would
like information about making a contribution or if you have any questions
about our portlet efforts, please direct them to the appropriate list.

--
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Executive Director

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[uportal-dev] Jasig Election Results

[Jonathan Markow]

This summer's annual Jasig elections are over.  Here are the results of the
voting:

Board of Directors
- Tim Archer (University of St. Francis)
- Aaron Godert (Cornell University)
- Jens Haeusser (University of British Columbia)
- Jim Helwig (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

CAS Steering Committee
  Stakeholders:
- Eric Pierce (University of South Florida) (2nd term)
- Andrew Feller (Louisiana State University)
- Andrew Petro (Unicon)
  Developer Rep:  Scott Battaglia
  Benn Oshrin from Rutgers will continue as Board Liaison

uPortal Steering Committee
  Stakeholders:
- Erik Olsson (University of California - Irvine)
- Dwight Raum (The Johns Hopkins Unviersity)
  Developer Reps:
- Jen Bourey (Unicon)
- Eric Dalquist (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  Jim Helwig from UW-Madison will continue as Board Liaison

Incubation Committee
- Tim Carroll (University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign)
- Parker Grimes (Southern Utah University)
- Cris Holdorph (Unicon)
- Tuyhang Ly (Rutgers University)
  Susan Bramhall from Yale University will continue as Board Liaison

Special thanks to this year's election committee:  David Koehler, Cornell
University and Debbie Smith, CONCENTRA-CMS.

Congratulations to those who will begin their terms this September 1st.
Many thanks to outgoing committee and board members for their service to
Jasig.
Continuous thanks to our returning committee and board members, who do so
much to keep the wheels turning!

-Jonathan

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Re:[uportal-dev] University of The Gambia Need a Helping hand

[Jonathan Markow]

I responded to Pa Sara Drammeh on another list.
-Jonathan

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Pa Sara Drammeh wrote:

> Our University is very young its just started 1999. we need a web portal so
> that we can be like Big university around the world, but i have installed
> uPortal in our webserver but its not worknng can you help me... FTP
> username:utg password:uuttgg1
>
> if can offer me a Training i would like to come for get..
>
>
> --
> Best Regards
>
> Pa Sara Drammeh
> Unversity of The Gambia
> Network Administrator
> Administration Building
> Kanifing
> P.O. Box 3530
> Serrekunda
> Mob:(220) 9996629
> Tel: (220) 4372213 / 4395062 / 4395065
> Fax: (220) 4395064
> The Gambia. West Africa
> E-mail:i...@utg.edu.gm 
> Web: www.utg.edu.gm
>
>
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[uportal-dev] New Jasig Licensing Policy - Request for Comment

[Jonathan Markow]

Jasig is preparing a comprehensive new licensing policy that will adopt
the Apache 2.0 License and provide for Contributor License Agreements.  This
new policy will cover the existing projects, uPortal and CAS, as well as
new projects and portlets under incubation.  Compliance with the
new licensing policy will become one of the major criteria for projects
to emerge from incubation and become full Jasig projects.

We have posted a public review draft of the proposed policy on the Jasig
wiki site, including our rationale for the change.  You can review the full
draft here:
http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/6YB9AQ

The Jasig Board of Directors is requesting comments on this draft until
August 5, 2009. All comments should be sent to the Jasig public
discussion mailing list at jasig-licens...@lists.jasig.org -- you do not
have to join this mailing list in order to send your comments.  At the
end of that period, the Board will review the comments, make any
agreed-upon changes, and then vote on adopting the new policy.

We look forward to your input and to implementing this new policy that
we think we be beneficial to our projects, our users, and our developers.

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[uportal-dev] Jasig Fall 2009 Unconference

[Jonathan Markow]

*The Jasig Fall 2009 Unconference is Coming!*

*Dates:*
September 28-30, Unconference sessions
October 1-2, Developer meetings

*Place:  *
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
I Hotel and Conference Center

*Registration/Fees:*
Jasig Members:  $225;   Non-members: $275.  Registration to begin next week.
*
Accommodations:*
I Hotel and Conference Center: $119/night  -  Deadline for guaranteed rate
is August 27, 2009.
Front Desk:  217 819 5000
Make sure you ask for the Jasig room block and rate!

*What's an Unconference?*

"An unconference is a conference where the content of the sessions is driven
and created by the participants, generally day-by-day during the course of
the event, rather than by a single organizer, or small group of organizers,
in advance."
   -Wikipedia

Jasig has always been about people coming together to share and learn in an
open environment, and this is what an "unconference" is all about.

This fall event will provide both spontaneous and planned opportunities to
collaborate on all Jasig community initiatives as well as initiatives from
other community open source projects. This year we plan to continue
discussions begun at the June Internet2/EDUCAUSE/Jasig Identity and Access
Management ACAMP, as well.

Mark your calendar and make plans to join us! More information about the
Unconference will be available soon.

*What are we going to do?!*

It's up to you.  Ideas people are talking about so far include the
following:

Lightning Talks - Volunteers talk for up to 8 minutes. Any topic goes.
Workshops - Bring your uPortal, portlet, CAS, Bedework, or IdM code or
design or requirements and work on them with core developers.
Birds of a Feather Sessions - Discuss common interests, issues, problems
with colleagues.

Strategic Planning - What should Jasig be focused on next year?  In three
years?  Join the conversation.
Newbie?  Meet the experts and get individualized help.
How-to's. How-not-to's.  Tips and techniques.

The final schedule will be determined in real-time, interactively with the
attendees.

More information will be available soon.  See you at the Unconference!

-The Fall 2009 Jasig Unconference Organizers

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Re:[uportal-dev] JASIG Call for Nominations Extension

[Jonathan Markow]

Many of you did not receive this email earlier today because of our listserv
gremlins.  Apologies to those of you who are seeing it again.

-Jonathan

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2009/6/18 David Koehler 

>  Dear Jasig Community:
>
> The deadline for the Call for Nominations for this year's Jasig elections
> has been extended one week to Tuesday, July 7, 2009 because of a listserv
> glitch that resulted in late notification for some people.
>
> Please send your nominations--and self-nominations--to
> electi...@ja-sig.org.
>
> We look forward to hearing from you.
>
> David Koehler, Chair
> Jasig Elections Committee
>
> --
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> Director Information Systems
> Cornell Information Technologies
> Cornell University
> 120 Maple Ave
> Ithaca, NY 14850-4902
> [Phone]  607 255-2245   [Fax]  607 255-0410
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[uportal-dev] Developer Representatives to Project Steering Committees

[Jonathan Markow]

Developers:

You have received a couple of emails recently about the Jasig 2009
Elections, during which our membership will be selecting stakeholder
positions on the project steering committees for both uPortal and CAS.

At the same time we will be asking you to select developer representatives
to each of the committees.  uPortal has two developer positions and CAS has
one:

Current uPortal Reps:
Eric Dalquist
Andrew Petro

Current CAS Rep:
Scott Battaglia

These developer positions are not subject to term limits, and incumbents may
serve successive terms.  But we do ask each team to revisit their selections
each year and make fresh recommendations.

The way the process works is this:

   1. Any developer may serve if selected
   2. Only committers have votes; they are not required to belong to Member
   organizations
   3. Discussion is open to all on the developer lists
   4. Please initiate  discussion on your list when the spirit moves you
   (This week would be a good time to start :-)
   5. You may nominate others or yourself
   6. We will need a decision on your selections by the end of the Jasig
   election process, which is July 17, 2009
   7. Committee chairs should monitor these selections and report results
   back to the steering committees.
   8. New terms officially begin on September 1, 2009

Questions?  Please feel free to ask.

Thank you!
Jonathan

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[uportal-dev] Jasig Elections - 2009

[Jonathan Markow]

The Jasig election cycle for 2009 will be starting early in June.  We
encourage you to participate by nominating your colleagues or yourself for a
governance committee position.

This year there are a number of opportunities to become involved in Jasig
through the election process:

The Jasig Board of Directors will have four open positions.  The Board is
the group that manages strategic direction and policy for the entire
organization, oversees all projects and events, and takes responsibility for
the licensing and protection of intellectual property.

The uPortal Steering Committee will be filling four stakeholder positions.
This year the group will be undertaking an outreach initiative to
proactively seek increased input from portal users at all levels.

The CAS Steering Committee will be filling three open stakeholder
positions.  Both steering committees serve as advocates for their project.
They exercise strategic and operational oversight, encourage broadened
support, and seek to increase participation from the community.

Finally, the new Jasig Incubation Committee will be filling four positions.
This is the group of community stakeholders who oversee the process of
incubating new projects.  The group reviews projects for entry into
incubation, facilitates their movement through the incubation process, and
reviews their status on a quarterly basis.

Time commitments for these positions are moderate.  They require a monthly
phone meeting plus a few additional hours during the month for followup
activity.  Board Director positions may entail participation in other
working groups, as well.  Attendance at in-person meetings during the spring
conference and fall unconference are also encouraged of committee members
where possible.

The election process will begin with a three-week "Call for Nominations" in
June, during which nominees will be asked to submit a brief bio and personal
statement which will be posted on the Jasig wiki.  A two-week election
period will follow.  Results will be announced in July and new roles will
begin September 1st.

This year votes will be cast by newly appointed Community Liaisons, who have
been identified by our member organizations.  These liaisons are the local
individuals who are most involved in the operations of Jasig on a regular
basis, through mailing lists, committees, conferences, or development
efforts.  Their role is to represent the organization's interests to Jasig.

We all know that the ongoing health of an organization like Jasig depends on
an active community.  Participation takes many forms--attending a
conference, contributing code to a project, offering help on a mailing list,
sitting on a panel or giving a presentation, to name a few.  Serving on a
committee is one very direct way of influencing the direction of Jasig and
helping to chart a course towards our future.  We hope you will seriously
consider serving on a Jasig committee this year.

Watch for an announcement from our Election Committee in the coming days.

Thank you,
Jonathan

Jonathan Markow
Executive Director

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[uportal-dev] uPortal 3.1 Technical Webinar with Eric Dalquist

[Jonathan Markow]

Jasig Partner Unicon is hosting a uPortal 3.1 webinar on Thursday, May
21st.  Attendance is free but limited.  Details follow:

Features and Functionality of uPortal 3.1 - Technical Webinar with Eric
Dalquist  *When:** *Thursday, May 21, 2009,
1:30 pm Eastern (10:30 am Pacific)
*Duration:** *60 Minutes Experience the new uPortal 3.1 Dive deep into the
new features and functionality of uPortal 3.1 through this technical
session.

   - Learn about what's new in uPortal 3.1
   - Review uPortal 3 features in production environments
   - Interact with Eric Dalquist, Lead Developer of Jasig's uPortal 3
   project and ask questions along the way

Interactive Webinar

The Webinar will be conducted both online and over the phone, to allow you
the best opportunity to ask questions and explore the technology thoroughly.
Once you sign up for the Webinar, you will be sent a direct URL for the
session. *Seating is limited, but there is no fee for attending this
webinar.*

Click here to 
register
.

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Re: [uportal-dev] Working on a new Administrative Portlet for uPortal

[Jonathan Markow]

Hi Charise-

I'm thinking it would be useful to get feedback from other UX designers as
well as portal administrators.  You can reach out to the designers on the
jasig-ue list.  The portal administrators are more likely to monitor the
jasig-user list.

Thanks much.  We're really looking forward to seeing these improvements!

-Jonathan


On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Charise Arrowood wrote:

>  uPortal developers,
>
> Unicon's Cooperative Development Team is working on a new Portlet
> Administration portlet.  This work is to address 
> UP-2047,
> an issue prioritized by Unicon's Cooperative Support subscribers.  The goal
> is to design a new user experience for managing portlets and build it as a
> modern portlet.  Please review the emerging design 
> workand
>  give us your feedback.
>
> We are working on monthly iterations and will keep you posted on the
> progress.  If you are interested in collaborating on or contributing to this
> portlet, please contact me.
>
> -Charise
> --
>
> Charise M. Arrowood
> Director, Cooperative Support
> Unicon, Inc.
> Office:  480.558.2454
> Cell:  602.350.4916
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Re: [jasig-ue] [uportal-dev] Copying a Skin in 3.1

[Jonathan Markow]

Designers and Developers-

We've had some good discussion about this, t feels like the issue is still
unresolved.  I would be more comfortable hearing additional feedback, since,
as Vangel earlier pointed out, the degree of comfort in working with
skins/UI design is critical to user acceptance.

Do people agree that the inconveniences of our current process are
acceptable and well justified by the advantages?

Thanks,
Jonathan


On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Jonathan Markow  wrote:

> Well... A five minute find-and-replace makes the process sound a lot less
> onerous in light of the rationale that Gary (and Jacob) lay out for us.  I'd
> be interested in hearing from more jasig-ue subscribers about how they view
> this issue.
>
> -JJM
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Gary Thompson  wrote:
>
>>  I am all in favor of making skin development easy, as I skin uPortal on a
>> regular basis.  Therefore, I have great empathy (and sometimes sympathy) for
>> others who have to skin uPortal, which is why a main aim in the 3.0/3.1
>> theme and skin enhancements was to make theme customizations and skinning
>> easier.
>>
>> One way to make skinning easier was to adopt the Fluid Skinning System <
>> http://wiki.fluidproject.org/x/96M7> (FSS).  As part of that adoption,
>> the uportal3 skin was formatted as a FSS theme <
>> http://wiki.fluidproject.org/x/egNS>.  Which I know is a bit confusing as
>> FSS labels a "theme" what uPortal calls a "skin".
>>
>> In following FSS theme best practices, the skin CSS file is given this
>> name:
>>
>> fluid.theme.[theme_name].css
>>
>> Which is why the uportal3 main skin CSS file is named:
>>
>> fluid.theme.uportal3.css
>>
>> Continuing in the pattern of a FSS theme, many of the uportal3 CSS files
>> follow this syntax:
>>
>> .fl-theme-uportal3 h2 {color:#5a95cf;}
>>
>> Which uses the theme name (e.g., ".fl-theme-uportal3") in all CSS
>> declarations.
>>
>> So, to answer the question: "Is there a strong technical reason that the
>> root CSS class name for a skin contains the skin name?"
>>
>> The most simple answer is, "that's how FSS does it".  Which I know isn't
>> very satisfying, and though I had some sense of why FSS chose to do it that
>> way, I put the question to Jacob Farber (U of Toronto), Shepherd of the
>> Fluid Skinning System.  Here's what Jacob said:
>>
>> 
>>
>> I hope I understood the question, which I took it to be: why should
>> someone add a class name to all of their selectors?
>>
>> There are a few reasons why we namespace our css themes with a class name:
>>
>> Reduce collisions: we can work side by side with other themes if need be
>> and don't need to worry about colliding
>>
>> Greater control: by adding a class name, we gain specificity in the
>> selector and increase our chance of affecting the nodes we're interested in
>>
>> Ease of use: we only need to switch a class name to switch a theme, rather
>> than load and manage non-namespaced CSS files
>>
>> In the end, one doesn't need to have any prefix to their theme - you would
>> be working at the same level as a CSS reset file - however the uportal
>> prefix enables you to load and control multiple themes on the page without
>> worrying about messy collisions and cross-theming.
>>
>> The fewer selectors you use the weaker your hold on your desired effect
>> is.
>>
>> Additionally, namespacing themes is how UI Options <
>> http://wiki.fluidproject.org/x/B6E7> works with them, so if it needs to
>> work with UI Options it needs to be namespaced.
>>
>> 
>>
>> And for this question: "Can we find an alternate solution that doesn't
>> require as much work for the deployer to create a new skin?"
>>
>> One truth we need to face is that the uPortal UI layer is (and probably
>> will continue to become) more complex.  This is not unique to uPortal, but
>> is a trend across the Web, a la Web 2.0, rich user interfaces, etc.
>>
>> We are using 3rd party libraries like Fluid, jQuery, and Silk Icons
>> We are using more and more JavaScript
>> We have adopted the FSS
>> We are supporting legacy uPortal CSS
>> We are supporting the JSR-168 spec CSS
>> We have to support older browsers (like IE6)
>> We need to be accessible and must comply to accessibility law
>>
>> And all this must be performant (part of the whole user experience), so
>>
>> We are using a resource serv

Re: [uportal-dev] Reminder: JASIG UK Meeting April 22

[Jonathan Markow]

Hello Nentae, and welcome to Jasig and uPortal.  If you pose your question
to the uPortal Community list (uportal-user) you will most likely find
people there who are able to help you.  This list (uportal-dev) is for
uPortal framework developers.

You can subscribe to the uportal-user group on this page:
http://jasig.webchuckhosting.com/uportal/mailing-lists.

Regards,
Jonathan

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Nentawe Gurumdimma <
speakwitht...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I am a new member and new to uportal, Cas. I have been trying to install
> the uPortal Quick-Start demo version, but it seems it's not working on
> Ubuntu OS.
>
> Please can I find any help?
>
> Thanks
>
> Nentawe - Nigeria
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Jonathan Markow wrote:
>
>> The next meeting of JASIG UK is scheduled for Wednesday, 22 April, 2009.
>> This one-day event will be held at the National Science Learning Centre in
>> York (http://www.sciencelearningcentres.org.uk/WebPortal.aspx?page=2).
>>
>> If you are planning to join us in York, please sign up on the participants
>> page: 
>> http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/22+April+09+participants.<http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/22+April+09+participants>(Send
>>  me an email if you need a UserID on the Jasig wiki.)
>>
>> We are still using the wiki to collect potential topics for this meeting.
>> Ideas and offers of presentations can be added to the agenda page (
>> http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/22+April+09+agenda).
>>
>> Please note that attendance is free of charge.  If you are able to attend,
>> you would be most welcome!
>>
>> -Jonathan
>>
>> Jonathan Markow
>> Executive Director
>>
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[uportal-dev] Reminder: JASIG UK Meeting April 22

[Jonathan Markow]

The next meeting of JASIG UK is scheduled for Wednesday, 22 April, 2009.
This one-day event will be held at the National Science Learning Centre in
York (http://www.sciencelearningcentres.org.uk/WebPortal.aspx?page=2).

If you are planning to join us in York, please sign up on the participants
page: 
http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/22+April+09+participants.<http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/22+April+09+participants>(Send
me an email if you need a UserID on the Jasig wiki.)

We are still using the wiki to collect potential topics for this meeting.
Ideas and offers of presentations can be added to the agenda page (
http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/22+April+09+agenda).

Please note that attendance is free of charge.  If you are able to attend,
you would be most welcome!

-Jonathan

Jonathan Markow
Executive Director

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Re: [uportal-dev] Copying a Skin in 3.1

[Jonathan Markow]

Agreed.

-JJM

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Vangel V. Ajanovski wrote:

> I would suggest this to be considered very seriously, because nowadays
> how easy it is to rebrand or change the default look of a website is one
> of the top features of all web-related frameworks.
> At least from the point of view of a beginning deployer.
>
> > Is there a strong technical reason that the root CSS class name for a
> > skin contains the skin name? Can we find an alternate solution that
> > doesn't require as much work for the deployer to create a new skin?
>
>
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[uportal-dev] Fwd: [jasig-ue] Stylesheet imports in uPortal 3.1.x

[Jonathan Markow]

This would be a particularly helpful piece of information to be captured in
the manual.  Could someone volunteer to find a place for it?

Thanks,
Jonathan

-- Forwarded message --
From: Jen Bourey 
Date: Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: [jasig-ue] Stylesheet imports in uPortal 3.1.x
To: jasig...@lists.ja-sig.org


Hi Kathy,

You're correct; the code actually does cache the javascript and CSS
resources.  Right now all javascript and CSS resources are GZipped by a
servlet filter, and since these resources are the same for all users and
aren't expected to change frequently in a production environment, the filter
is optimized to cache the GZipped result for a short time period.

However, I've also found that it's not particularly convenient while doing
skin development.  If you'd like to turn this feature off during
development, you can comment out the filter mapping for the
pageCachingFilter in webxml:




- Jen


On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Moore, Kathleen E  wrote:

>  I routinely use shift-reload, and I’ve tried “Clear Private Data” in FF
> and “Delete Files” in IE.  Nothing but stop and restart seems to work, in
> either FF or IE (win).
>
>
>
> (If this were a local caching issue, would restarting the server even fix
> it?)
>
>
>
> Kathy
>
>
>
> Kathleen Moore
>
> Web Manager
>
> Boston University School of Management
>
> kemo...@bu.edu
>
> 617-353-2685
>
>
>
> *From:* Eric Dalquist [mailto:eric.dalqu...@doit.wisc.edu]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 24, 2009 4:32 PM
> *To:* jasig...@lists.ja-sig.org
> *Subject:* Re: [jasig-ue] Stylesheet imports in uPortal 3.1.x
>
>
>
> CSS shouldn't be cached in memory on the server but a cache header is set.
> Try using shift-reload on the page while developing to force the browser to
> re-request locally cached CSS.
>
> -Eric
>
> Moore, Kathleen E wrote:
>
> I’m so glad you asked!
>
>
>
> As someone who is, as we speak, trying to skin the new 3.1 release, I’m
> horrified at the idea of requiring a build to deploy the css. I’ve had to
> argue with developers here who want me to work in the build, but it’s almost
> impossible to do visual work that way.  Working in the deployed css files
> gives me prompt feedback about css changes.
>
>
>
> And since you seem to know something about how this works—it seems that the
> new release caches css in a way that older releases didn’t. The build
> doesn’t display css changes until I stop and restart the server. An older
> version of uPortal even let us turn off xsl caching—also useful for
> development purposes. Is there a key to this hidden somewhere?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Kathleen Moore
>
> Web Manager
>
> Boston University School of Management
>
> kemo...@bu.edu
>
> 617-353-2685
>
>
>
> *From:* jennifer.bou...@gmail.com 
> [mailto:jennifer.bou...@gmail.com]
> *On Behalf Of *Jen Bourey
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 24, 2009 4:06 PM
> *To:* jasig...@lists.ja-sig.org
> *Subject:* [jasig-ue] Stylesheet imports in uPortal 3.1.x
>
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I wanted to open up discussion about our options for decreasing the number
> of HTTP requests for CSS stylesheets in the uPortal 3.1 branch.  Currently
> the portal's skins generally import some shared default resources from the
> new ResourceServingWebapp and from the theme's common area.  These resources
> include the jQuery UI default theme, the Fluid Skinning System (FSS)'s
> standard resources, and a base uPortal-specific layout.css file.  The skin
> then overrides and adds to these more general CSS styles, generally through
> including several more stylesheets.
>
> While I think the above works well from a development standpoint, we
> currently have 14 HTTP requests for CSS stylesheets just for the base
> uPortal content (i.e., this count doesn't include any stylesheets for
> portlets present on the page).  I'd really like to get this number down as
> much as we can, while making sure we have a skin organization that's
> reasonable to work with.
>
> My current proposal is that we leave the existing structure as is, but make
> use of the maven yui-compressor plugin to aggregate the required files at
> build time.  This would allow us to continue to have separate, appropriately
> named files, but only require the user's browser to download one or two CSS
> file per skin.  For example, we might create aggregated files as follows:
>
> 
> 
> 
>
> ${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}/media/skins/universality/common/css/fluid.fss.min.css
>  
>
> ${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}/media/skins/universality/common/css/fluid.reset.min.css
>
> ${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}/media/skins/universality/common/css/fluid.layout.min.css
>
> ${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}/media/skins/universality/common/css/fluid.text.min.css
>   
>  
>
> 
> 
>
> ${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}/media/skins/universality/uportal3/uportal3.min.css
> 

[uportal-dev] New General Utility Portlets

[Jonathan Markow]

Jen Bourey has begun work on a series of very nice looking utility
portlets.  Here is her post to the portlet-dev list, in case you're
interested in joining the fun but haven't seen it.  Please continue the
discussion on portlet-dev, though.  Subscriptions are available here:
http://www.jasig.org/portlets/mailing-lists.

-Jonathan


Hi all,

As a result of some recent conversation in IRC, I've started a new portlet
project in the Jasig sandbox.  This project is intended to be a collection
of small, general utility portlets.

So far I've added the following:

- Search (google-powered)
- Maps (google-powered with toggleable traffic info)
- Tabbed RSS (google-powered, allows users to search for and add new feeds)
- Small monthly view (jQuery UI)
- Stocks (Yahoo data and news combined w/ the google feed reader)
- Dictionary / Thesaurus (data from
http://services.aonaware.com/DictService/DictService.asmx, which is
collected from dict.org servers)
- Language translation (google-powered)

Screenshots: http://www.unicon.net/node/1194

Of course, these portlets all have numerous rough edges and need some UE
attention and javascript cleanup.  I'm hoping that having something in svn
might get us started and open some dialog about what other utility portlets
we'd like to have, as well as whether certain portlets might be better
powered by alternate data sources.  It has already been suggested that it
would be preferable for the dictionary portlet to have an available local
data source.

I'm hoping that this project can ultimately become both an example of best
practices for Ajax portlet development for uPortal and a source of some
better default content for the uPortal distribution.  I'm also hoping that
this set of portlets can continue to be a collaborative effort; input,
suggestions, and development help are all very much welcome!

- Jen

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Re: [uportal-dev] Portal Registration Portlet

[Jonathan Markow]

Gary has a point about more elaborate stats collection being a possible
impediment to admins opting in.  Since the primary goal of this is to simply
get a better count of how many uPortal implementations are out there, we
should segment the reporting options into 1) just let us know you're out
there, and, later on, 2) report back a bunch of other information (but only
if we think there is value to collecting that).

-Jonathan

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Gary Weaver  wrote:

> Eric,
>
> I noticed that 2nd gen stats collection included login stats.
>
> You might consider adding "IP unique" login stats to the general logging
> stats.
>
> It would be also cool to collect concurrent # session statistics, but with
> the research I've done on that, I'm not sure whether there is a consistent
> way of doing that.
>
> However, you might consider not integrating any ability to send the stats
> automatically, since there could be privacy concerns about that
> functionality being there, even if it could be configured not to send them.
> I think it would be better for the portal admin or a functional owner of the
> portal to review those stats before approving them to be sent (each time).
> One way to do this (maybe not the best) would be for each the portal itself
> or JASIG send emails to that person to let them review and send only the
> stats they want to. I know that it is probably much easier to just automate
> sending of stats, but odds are more people would feel comfortable with
> sending those stats if they could look at them first and maybe choose which
> to send.
>
> In the end though, I don't think that gathering stats at JASIG will be of
> much help. I could see Unicon possibly wanting to focus on some data like
> "they've had a significant drop of logins- maybe we should see if they need
> assistance", but in the end if something like that happens, the institution
> using uPortal probably already knows about it and might get annoyed that it
> is being used for the purpose of vetting potential need for assistance.  And
> JASIG itself wouldn't seem to benefit from these stats other than possibly
> being able to advertise something like "the highest # logins/day we are
> aware of in the wild is ~8000" to try to increase adoption. And there could
> be a number of dev/test instances registered using the same config as
> production, so load testing and lack of use of those could significantly
> affect numbers. Finally people that are checking into using uPortal are
> probably more interested in load testing results and information to help
> them determine system requirements and suggested architecture for a
> particular theoretical # users than anything else.
>
> While on the topic of stats collection in uPortal (not that it has to do
> with JASIG stats collection):
>
> * Internally we track a lot of login stats based on different attributes of
> users: for a given time period we report total logins and unique logins, " "
> " " " by career, " " " " " by grad year, daily stats of total logins and
> unique logins for career and grad year (Matt Young wrote our code to gather
> additional data and do all of the previous reports btw), and then total and
> unique logins broken down by month, and total logins and unique logins for
> career and grad year broken down by month (I added those last 2 later). If
> those types of reports (tapping into user data fed in via the SSO or LDAP)
> could be part of uPortal itself, that would be cool for some portal admins,
> I'd expect.
>
> * In terms of stats collection, our customer would really like for the
> portal to collect stats on usage of portlets including number of times
> portlet viewed (per day, etc.) and what the user clicked on, etc.
> Unfortunately this is much harder to track generically without changes
> required to each portlet to store that data. If there was a way to solve
> this, that would be excellent.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
>
>
> Eric Dalquist wrote:
>
>> The last uPortal steering committee meeting had some very good feedback
>> from several sources about Jasig needing to do a better job keeping track of
>> portal deployments. To that end there have been some discussions on the IRC
>> channel that I thought I'd post about here. There is a wiki page describing
>> the plan and design:
>> http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/Automated+Portal+Registration
>>
>> The first step is something that we're going to try and get into the 3.1.0
>> release. It will be a portlet designated for the admin view that provides a
>> simple form for the administrator to fill out some information about their
>> install and some checkboxes about automatically discovered data. The admin
>> can then submit this information to a small webapp that will reside on
>> www.ja-sig.org. Handling the data would then be up to the steering
>> committee to deal with. Including this at the last minute is a tough call
>> but as the new code will be in no way critical for uPo

Re: [uportal-dev] YourKit

[Jonathan Markow]

...And they must know as us "JA-SIG" if it makes a difference...

-Jonathan

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Eric Dalquist  wrote:

> Yes, you just need to contact YourKit sales and ask for a JASIG license
> key, feel free to CC me on the email.
>
> -Eric
>
>
> Tuyhang Ly wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to retrieve the YourKit license key which was granted to
>> Jasig developers (http://www.jasig.org/about/acknowledgements).  Do I
>> need to contact YourKit directly?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tuy.
>>
>>

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Re: [uportal-dev] Proposing Matt Polizzotti for commit access

[Jonathan Markow]

Welcome to the Brotherhood of Committers, Matt.   May the force be with you!

-Jonathan

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Jen Bourey wrote:

> To summarize our voting to date, it looks like we're now at 5 +1 votes with
> no 0 or -1 votes.  I'd like to call the vote, since it's been over a week.
>
> - Jen
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Jen Bourey wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'd like to nominate Matt Polizzotti for commit access for uPortal.  For
>> those of you who don't know him, he is a Unicon developer and has been
>> instrumental in fixing a number of the CSS and Javascript bugs in uPortal
>> 3.x.  In particular, he's provided patches for some of the persistent IE 6
>> and 7 issues we've had that have been difficult to debug.  Matt's also
>> implemented large parts of the UP-2047 work (the proposed portlet manager
>> portlet: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/Portlet+Manager+Portlet).
>> He also was involved in the Johns Hopkins mobile theme work.
>>
>> I've really appreciated Matt's assistance and fixes, and to date, I've
>> happily applied patches on his behalf.  However, I'd love for him to be able
>> to contribute to the uPortal project without having to wait on me.  He has
>> some great work planned helping us clean up our current CSS stylesheets and
>> update them to better support Safari, as well as adding some cool new
>> features.  Also, once we move the UP-2047 development over to the uPortal
>> trunk, allowing Matt to continue to easily collaborate on that work would
>> greatly help that ticket's progress.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> - Jen
>>
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Re: [uportal-dev] uPortal 3.1.0-M2 Release Announcement

[Jonathan Markow]

Thanks much Eric!

-Jonathan

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Eric Dalquist  wrote:

> uPortal 3.1.0-M2 was released today. This is a Milestone build and should
> be considered a developer preview.
>
> Fixes in 3.1.0 M2
>   * Upgraded to Pluto 1.1.7 to fix adding multivalued portlet URL
> parameters with the taglib
>   * Fix the impersonation filter breaking simple authentication
>   * Resolve IE6 dynamic UI rendering issues
>   * Fixed placing non-serializable objects in the session to allow for
> session replication
>   * ant clean target no longer removes uPortal from Tomcat
>
> Enhancements in 3.1.0 M2
>   * Significant performance improvements for import/export scripts
>   * Enable adding anchors to portlet URLs
>   * Add JavaScript minification as part of the build
>   * Allow for configuring varying session timeouts based on permissions
>   * Added SmartLdapGroupStore
>   * Using latest versions of Fluid reorderer and jQuery for dynamic layout
> manipulation
>
> Downloads are available from:
> http://www.ja-sig.org/downloads/uportal/uPortal-3.1.0-M2/
> Release notes are available at:
> http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/3.1.0-M2
>
> uPortal 3 Release Engineer,
> -Eric Dalquist
>

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[uportal-dev] For Hire: Confluence Tuning Assistance

[Jonathan Markow]

JASIG would like to hire someone to address the problems we've been having
with Confluence during the past few weeks.  Our Confluence instance
periodically hangs and crashes.  We're aware that Atlassian-recommended
tuning has not been done to-date, and that would be a good starting point.

We're looking for someone with the following qualifications:

- Experience with Confluence tuning / internal configuration and Tomcat /
JVM tuning would be preferred
- Experience with Unix command line
- Person must have ability to SSH in to our Sun server.

If you are interested, please reply directly to jjmarkow at ja-sig dot org
with a summary of your relevant experience and your hourly rate for this
kind of work.

Thanks,
Jonathan

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[uportal-dev] Volunteers Wanted for JASIG Conference Program Committee!

[Jonathan Markow]

2009 JASIG Spring Conference
Dallas, Texas
March 1 - March 4

With the Spring 2009 JASIG Conference less than six months away, we're more
than ready to begin planning the program!  Board Director Katya Sadovsky
from UC Irvine, a long-time JASIG community participant, has agreed to join
me as co-chair of the program committee, and we are searching for volunteers
to work along with us.

Program committee volunteers spend a few hours a month soliciting and
selecting presentations, choosing keynote speakers, planning related events
and activities (e.g., poster session, birds-of-a-feather sessions,
reception, dine-around, etc.), and getting the word out.  Administrative
work is handled by CONCENTRA-CMS, our conference management partners.  We
all work as a team by email, phone, and wiki.  I think past committee
members will agree that the time spent together is fun and rewarding.

Colleagues from a host of other open source/community source projects joined
us last spring, as they will again this year.  The result was one of the
best conferences we've ever had, and we intend to "kick it up a notch" in
Dallas.

We hope you will consider volunteering for the program committee.  If you
have any questions, please feel free to email either of us.

Thanks!

Katya Sadovsky - UC Irvine - katya at uci dot edu
Jonathan Markow - JASIG Executive Director - jjmarkow at ja-sig dot org
Program Committee Co-Chairs

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[uportal-dev] Announcing the 2009 JASIG Spring Conference

[Jonathan Markow]

Save the Dates!

Announcing the 2009 JASIG Spring Conference

Sunday, March 1 – Wednesday, March 4

Join JASIG and the greater higher education open source community



Dallas, Texas

The Sheraton Dallas Hotel

http://tinyurl.com/6ch662



Watch for more information soon!

http://www.ja-sig.org



See you in Dallas this coming March,

The 2009 JASIG Spring Conference Committee

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[uportal-dev] Reserve Your JASIG Unconference Hotel Room This week!

[Jonathan Markow]

Reminder:  This Friday, September 12, is the last day to *guarantee* the
JASIG Unconference rate at the Edgewater Hotel in Madison, Wisconsin!
(Discounted conference rates may still be available after that if rooms are
not otherwise booked by the hotel, so do ask for the JASIG rate whenever you
call.)   To make a reservation, call the hotel directly at 1-800-922-5512 or
1-608-256-9071.

The JASIG Unconference is shaping up to be a great event for developers,
designers, architects, deployers, and managers.  For discussions and
workshops on uPortal, CAS, UX Design, Identity and Access Management, Spring
Portlet MVC, Portlets, Roadmap planning, Project Incubation, uP3 Deployment,
and Enterprise Integration, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the place
to be, starting October 6th!

There's still time to register:
https://www.concentra-cms.com/register/start.action?confId=34.

Go to the JASIG wiki for more information about the Unconference:
http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/8hLP.

We hope to see you there!

The Fall 2008 JASIG Unconference Committee

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[uportal-dev] Fwd: [uportal-user] Intermittent dlm problem

[Jonathan Markow]

Can anyone help Bob Finch with his uP 3 launch?  He's not getting any love
on the uportal-user list...
-Jonathan

-- Forwarded message --
From: Bob Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:43 PM
Subject: [uportal-user] Intermittent dlm problem
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


 We've stumbled on an intermittent problem while preparing for a launch of
uPortal 3.0.1.  Sometimes after a tomcat restart, tabs from one dlm fragment
won't appear for users in that fragment's audience.  If this happens, the
problem will persist until another tomcat restart, at which point it may or
may not start working again.  When it happens, it's always with the same
fragment, the others work as expected.



I've looked through the portal logs and there are no ERRORs that seem
relevant.  Right now I'm comparing DEBUG level messages between working/non
working restarts but there are lots of them to wade through.  So far I
haven't found any significant differences.



Any ideas about how to track down the problem?



Here's our dlm.xml:











http://org.jasig.portal.layout.dlm.config
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Thanks in advance.



-- Bob



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[uportal-dev] Campus Technology Article Features uPortal 3

[Jonathan Markow]

The September, 2008 edition of Campus Technology features a lengthy article
on "5 Best Practices for Building Your Portal in a Web 2.0 World".  uPortal
3 is featured prominently, and kudos are given to University of
Wisconsin-Madison for their outstanding work, as well as to "open-source
guru Unicon," a JA-SIG Commercial Affiliate, for their expertise.

According to Campus Technology, "When JA-SIG, the nonprofit organization
devoted to the promotion of Java architecures, released uPortal 3.0 earlier
this year, open source fanatics at colleges and universities across the
country ballyhooed what they called a 'revolutionary step' in the lifespan
of open source portals."

There is an excellent sidebar by uPortal Project Steering Committee member,
Unicon's Andrew Petro, assessing the "State of the (Portal) Union".  uPortal
3 lead developer and release engineer Eric Dalquist, from University of
Wisconsin-Madison, is featured in another sidebar, "Open Source Fanatics
Embrace uPortal 3".  Eric enumerates the new features that have attracted so
much attention to the latest uPortal release.  JA-SIG Board director and
UWMadison Portal Project Manager, Jim Helwig, describes how uPortal has
enriched the student experience at the university.

The "5 Best Practices" article may be found on page 41 of the September
magazine and online at http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67076_6/ .

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Re: [uportal-dev] Should we rename / recreate the uPortal lists?

[Jonathan Markow]

I recognize it's a problem, but I'm a believer that we'll continue to get
inappropriate emails no matter what we call the lists.  Rather than undergo
the inconvenience, an alternative might be to better highlight the lists'
purpose:  An occasional email reminding people what the main ones are for; a
more prominent description on the subscription page, etc.  That won't stop
the mis-aimed emails either, but it might lessen them.  We'll still need to
politely redirect queries to the right place, which a few of you seem to do
very gracefully at the moment anyway.

-Jonathan

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Eric Dalquist
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> I think that is why before the move of lists to UW uportal-dev required
> approval to join which included reading a page about the intent of the list.
> Renaming may be the way to go but we need to make sure we know what we're
> getting into with changing documentation and such.
>
> -Eric
>
>
> Cris J Holdorph wrote:
>
>> I wonder if we should consider some list renaming.
>>
>> People consistently post to uportal-dev with questions that are about them
>> "developing" their portal.  Look at the list name, think about what those
>> people are doing, it's really not a stretch.  "uportal-user" sounds like it
>> might be for people to learn how to login, move portlets around, etc.
>>  "uportal-dev" sounds more reasonable when I need to ask a question about
>> how to write a new portlet for my portal.
>>
>> I wonder if we should have names that help make the distinction between
>> "development of the core framework services" and "development and
>> configuration of portals using uPortal" better.
>>
>> For example, what if "uportal-dev" was renamed "uportal-framework" and
>> "uportal-user" was named "uportal-admin".  I don't really like the name
>> "uportal-admin" but you get the idea.  It just feels like the names we
>> currently have will continue to cause us trouble, because they do not match
>> well with the intent of the content to be posted to them, at least from a
>> new-user-to-the-community perspective.
>>
>>  Cris J H
>>
>>

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[uportal-dev] Lightning Talks at the JASIG Unconference

[Jonathan Markow]

Coming to the Fall 2008 JASIG Unconference?  We're looking for people to
volunteer for "lightning talks".

What's that, you ask?  A lightning talk is a five or ten minute presentation
on any related topic that you think might be of interest.  It doesn't
require much upfront planning.  Slides are not necessary, though you might
choose to present a few.  You will definitely be cut off after ten minutes,
however!

In the past people have used the time to--

- tell us what they're working on,
- describe a topic that they'd like to discuss later during the day,
- describe a mini-workshop they would be willing to lead,
- communicate a point of view or "best practice",
- suggest a contrarian approach to provoke a discussion,
- describe a thorny technical problem they would like some help with,
- show some photos of their summer vacation.

OK, maybe we never got quite that diverted.  The point is, the lightning
talks are fun and informative, and they serve as stepping stones to meatier
conversations and scheduled events during the unconference.

Want to learn more about lightning talks?  Here's a page on our wiki that
will help:  http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/CxTP.  There's also a place on that
page for you to enter some ideas for lightning talks, including some you
might want to present yourself.  No pressure.  Ideas are always welcome.  We
won't hold you to them.

We hope to see you in Madison, Wisconsin on October 6th!  For more
information about the Unconference, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/8hLP.

-The Fall 2008 JASIG Unconference Committee

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[uportal-dev] uPortal 3 Implementation Workshop

[Jonathan Markow]

Are you planning on attending the JASIG Unconference  in Madison, WI this
October:  http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/8hLP ?


One of the activities we're planning during the "main event" is a workshop
for people working on uPortal 3 implementations.  If you expect to be live
on uP3 by the time of the conference, your experience would be particularly
helpful to the rest of us.  If you're in that position and expect to be
there, please let us know, or email me directly:  jjmarkow at ja-sig dot
org.

Thanks!
Jonathan

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Re: [uportal-dev] uPortal 3.1 & Servlet 2.5

[Jonathan Markow]

That being the case, do we want to pose this question on the uportal-user
list?

-Jonathan

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Cris J Holdorph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> This sounds like it could be a pretty big upgrade path for a lot of
> organizations using uPortal.  How does everyone feel about this?
>
> I'm all for moving onward with the later releases of the servlet spec and
> in particular later releases of Tomcat, but I'm curious how places that will
> likely need to upgrade their environments feel.
>
>  Cris J H
>
> Eric Dalquist wrote:
>
>> Now that uPortal will be shipping with portlets deployed within the portal
>> webapp we're going to have to require a Servlet 2.5 container. The
>> requirement comes from a need to be able to determine the web-application
>> context path to be able to dispatch to these embedded portlets correctly.
>>
>> This means Tomcat 6.0 will be required to run the trunk of uPortal in SVN.
>> I'll be adding a check which will log a useful error message if an older
>> version of the servlet API is used. I'll also make sure to add notes about
>> setting up Tomcat 6.0 for uPortal in the readme and on the wiki.
>>
>> -Eric
>>
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[uportal-dev] Sun $1M Open Source Innovation Grant

[Jonathan Markow]

Developers-

Please pass this link around to those who might be interested in a $1M
Innovation Award Program sponsored by the Sun open source communities:

http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/awards/index.jsp

-Jonathan

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[uportal-dev] uPortal 3.0 Adoption Efforts

[Jonathan Markow]

This is a reminder that we have a wiki page for those who are investigating
uPortal 3.0 adoption:  http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/vQXP.  I see 14
institutions represented there right now, but we know that many others are
talking about it and working on pilots this summer.  We invite you to add
your school to the list and tell us where you're at.  For those of you who
already have entries, please return there and bring us up to date on recent
developments!

Thanks,
Jonathan Markow

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[uportal-dev] Technical Authors: A Book on uPortal? (was Fwd: A book on Backtrack?)

[Jonathan Markow]

FYI.  This company publishes books about open source applications.  Rashmi's
area is security, but if there is an aspiring uPortal book author out there,
I'm sure he would pass a proposal on to the appropriate editor.  :-)

-Jonathan

-- Forwarded message --
From: Rashmi Phadnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: A book on Backtrack?
To: Jonathan Markow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


 Sure. It would be great.

Jonathan Markow wrote:

Hi Rashmi-

Actually, I am not at all active in the Backtrack community--am not sure how
you got that impression.  However, I am executive director of JA-SIG, a
global consortium of higher education institutions that sponsors open source
software projects (www.jas-ig.org).  For example, we are sponsors of uPortal
and CAS (Central Authentication Service).  If you are interested, I can
invite some of our community's leaders to propose book topics to you.

-Jonathan

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:40 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Jonathan
>
> I am an acquisition editor for Packt Publishing (
> http://www.packtpub.com/aboutus) working on Security.
> Packt publishes a range of books, with a particular focus on Open Source
> tools. We pay authors in the form of a royalty and an advance against that
> royalty. Our royalty offers are much higher than most tech publishers. We
> also support open source projects through an Open Source royalty. This means
> that when we publish a Joomla book, the Joomla project will receive a share
> of the book's revenue.
> Unlike other publishers, who publish titles that aggregate technologies and
> often cover more than what the reader would need, Packt publishes focused
> titles each of which targets a smaller market and cater for more specific
> needs. Most of our titles are therefore 200-300 pages, although we publish
> larger books if required by the topic. As an example of our "focused
> publishing," we have published a book on building websites with Drupal that
> does not include any coding, another book that focuses on developing themes
> for Drupal, a third that focuses on Drupal modules, and other titles which
> you can see on our website. Another publisher that publishes broader books
> would have probably lumped all of these together in one title.
> We are currently in process of developing a book on Backtrack. I saw that
> you are very active in the Backtrack community and would like to call you on
> board to write this book. Please let me know if this sounds interesting to
> you. You can contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Of course, if you like the sound of writing but you believe there are other
> topics that you would be better suited to write about then please let me
> know. I'm always on the look out for new ideas, especially Security topics.
> I look forward to hearing from you.
>
> Thanks
> Rashmi
>
>
>
>

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[uportal-dev] Announcing the JA-SIG Unconference - October 6 - 8, 2008

[Jonathan Markow]

Second Annual JA-SIG Unconference - University of Wisconsin - Madison,
October 6-8, 2008

JA-SIG has always been about people coming together to share and learn in an
open environment, and this is what an "unconference" is all about. The
unconference format fits very well with our community values and goals. Last
year's inaugural unconference at Rutgers University was a great success and
this year's promises to be even better!

"An unconference is a conference where the content of the sessions is driven
and created by the participants, generally day-by-day during the course of
the event, rather than by a single organizer, or small group of organizers,
in advance."
  -Wikipedia

This October event will provide both spontaneous and planned opportunities
to collaborate on all JA-SIG projects and to find out about initiatives from
other open source communities. It's a great place to bring your questions,
meet with the experts, discover how others have worked through problems
similar to yours--all in an informal, fun setting.  Mark your calendar and
make plans to join us!  More information about the event will be available
soon.

Would you like to help us plan for the unconference?  We are forming a
planning committee and would like to start with a telephone discussion
mid-June.  The time commitment for unconference planning is far less than
that of a conventional conference, since most of the activity is
self-organized by participants.

If you have considered participating in JA-SIG event planning but haven't
yet volunteered, this is a great way to get your feet wet, meet some new
colleagues, make some new friends.  Please send an email to jjmarkow at
ja-sig dot org and let us know if you are interested.

Thank you,
Jonathan Markow
JA-SIG Executive Director

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Re: [uportal-dev] Proposed contributions from UW and JHU

[Jonathan Markow]

Adam-

Your proposal sounds very reasonable to me, though I'll let others comment
on its merits.  I'd like to suggest that, if we go the route of the
multi-valued portlet preferences, we should ask whether our Fluid Project
colleagues can offer input on the UI design.

Thanks much,
Jonathan

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Adam Rybicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This note is about two related topics.  The topics are about proposed
> contributions to uPortal 3 that the University of Wisconsin (UW) and Johns
> Hopkins University (JHU) may be able to make to uPortal.  I guess the reason
> that I am writing this is because I happened to talk to both.  Oh, and I am
> currently involved in a project with JHU.  ;-)
>
> The reason the topics are related is because they both happen to have a use
> case with the UW Proxy Portlet, which was contributed back in 2006 by UW.
>  This is a pretty sophisticated portlet that is similar to the CWebProxy
> channel, but it also tries to cope with the kinds of HTML markup that could
> "break" CWebProxy.  For more information about this portlet, go to its
> JA-SIG Wiki page .
>
> From the beginning, it was well known and understood that this portlet
> would have a vast number of options.  Those options would be extremely
> tedious to set in the portlet's deployment descriptor.  Since uPortal
> supports "publish time" portlet preferences, these options could be stored
> as portlet preferences without having to re-deploy its war file with a
> different deployment descriptor for every Web application proxied into the
> portal.  Currently, both the Portlet Manager and the import tool treat the
> portlets no different than channels, including imposing one of the channels'
> limitations on portlets: multi-valued portlet preferences are not supported
> by either Portlet Manager or the import tool.  This is because the DTD for
> channel publishing limits the number of channel parameter values to one.
>  The good news is that the uPortal database does not have that limitation.
>
> Some of the original requirements for the UW Web Proxy portlet options were
> so complex that no generic portlet preferences user interface, in this case
> the Portlet Manager, would be able to deal with them.  One of those
> requirements was to provide a point-and-click interface to select clipping
> region(s) of the proxied Web pages.  This is when UW decided  to explore a
> possibility of using a custom portlet mode, the CONFIG mode, to let the
> portlet itself prompt administrators for options that it knew how to deal
> with.  The portlet spec v1 allows custom modes.  The portlet spec v2 still
> does, but it actually lists the CONFIG mode in an appendix as a possible
> custom mode for the same reasons that UW had.
>
> So, as of right now, the UW Web Proxy portlet knows how to render its
> customization UI to uPortal in CONFIG mode.  uPortal, however, does not
> support that mode.  UW never had an opportunity to make this contribution
> because it focused all of its community resources on uPortal 3 work.  Now
> that uPortal 3 is out, UW may actually get a chance to make this
> contribution.
>
> I have done some work for JHU to try to integrate the UW Web Proxy portlet
> into uPortal, so that it could be published much the same way as the
> CWebProxy channel.  I have developed a .CPD file that uPortal uses to
> produce the UI, using the Portlet Manager, prompting for the UW Web Proxy
> portlet options.  I have this working both in uPortal 2.6 and 3.  There are
> some subtle differences, and perhaps future work in this area should focus
> only on uPortal 3.
>
> You may be asking at this time: this sounds like two different ways to
> solve the same problem--why?  Well, that's true.  There are good reasons to
> have both, however.
>
> For one, portlet preferences are allowed to be multi-valued.  Because they
> are currently handled as channel parameters, only a single value will work.
>  If we want to support publish-time portlet preferences, and I think that we
> should, then the Portlet Manager should be extended to explicitly allow
> that.  There must be more than one portlet in the world that can have
> multi-valued options.
>
> At the same time, CONFIG mode may be needed, too.  There are some portlet
> preference scenarios that cannot be solved in a generic Portlet Manager UI.
>  For example, co-dependent options.  Let's say, you have a boolean portlet
> preference, which, only if enabled, prompts for other preferences.
>
> I think that both approached have merit, and in the long run they will
> complement, rather than overlap, each other.  Best of all, I think that the
> amount of effort required is not too high because the CONFIG mode
> implementation exists, and extending Portlet Manager should not be too
> difficult.  I only hope that I can get some UI design assistance to support
> multi-valued portlet preferences in Portlet Manager.
>
> So, we can have 

[uportal-dev] Don't Miss Out! Register for JA-SIG TODAY!!

[Jonathan Markow]

REGISTRATION
There is still time to register for this "first of its kind" jointly-planned
Community Source conference. There are also 13 Supplementary Seminars on the
agenda that are sure to add exceptional value to your travel dollars. For
more information, go to
http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/registration.html

HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
You can still make reservations at the conference hotel, the Crowne Plaza
St. Paul-Riverfront, at the special group rate of $134 per night through
tomorrow, April 18--or for standard rates after that. For information about
how to make these reservations, go to
http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/accom-travel.html

POSTER SESSIONS
View nearly a dozen poster sessions Monday night while enjoying evening
beverages and appetizers. There is still space for you to present a poster!
Go to http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JCON/Spring 2008 Poster
Session<http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JCON/Spring+2008+Poster+Session>for
more information.

We look forward to seeing you in Saint Paul, Minnesota, April 27-30 for what
promises to be a fantastic program!

*2008 JA-SIG Conference Program Committee*

Aaron Godert, Cornell University, JA-SIG Board and Conference Co-Chair
Jonathan Markow, JA-SIG Executive Director, Conference Co-Chair
Susan Bramhall, Yale University, uPortal Liaison
Daniel Davis, Chief Architect, Fedora Commons
John Fereira, Cornell University, Web Master
Jim Helwig, University of Wisconsin, Madison, JA-SIG Board
Valerie Hollister, DSpace Liaison
Susan Inouye, University of Hawaii, Member
Michele Kimpton, DSpace Executive Director
Michael Korcuska, Sakai Executive Director
Phil McKown, Indiana University, Kuali Liaison
Matt Smith, University of Connecticut, CAS Liaison
Ann West, Internet2 Liaison
Paul Zablosky, University of British Columbia, Fluid Liaison

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more!
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[uportal-dev] Early Registration for JA-SIG Conference Ends Sunday!

[Jonathan Markow]

*Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way!*
27-30 April 2008
Crowne Plaza Hotel - Saint Paul, Minnesota

Early registration ends this SUNDAY, March 23, 2008!  Don't miss the
opportunities of this conference to:

   - get in depth knowledge from seminars
   - see demonstrations and presentations from your higher ed colleagues
   - work with other attendees on your common problems
   - help advance community source projects at the Wednesday BarCamp
   http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/BId7

Conference Registration:
http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/registration.html
Hotel Information and Booking:
http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/accom-travel.html

*See you in April in Saint Paul!*

*2008 JA-SIG Conference Program Committee*

Aaron Godert, Cornell University, JA-SIG Board and Conference Co-Chair
Jonathan Markow, JA-SIG Executive Director, Conference Co-Chair
Susan Bramhall, Yale University, JA-SIG Board, uPortal Liaison
Daniel Davis, Chief Architect, Fedora Commons
John Fereira, Cornell University, JA-SIG Web Master
Jim Helwig, University of Wisconsin, Madison, JA-SIG Board
Valerie Hollister, DSpace Liaison
Susan Inouye, University of Hawaii, Member
Michele Kimpton, DSpace Executive Director
Michael Korcuska, Sakai Executive Director
Phil McKown, Indiana University, Kuali Liaison
Matt Smith, University of Connecticut, CAS Liaison
Ann West, Internet2 Liaison
Paul Zablosky, University of British Columbia, Fluid Liaison

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[uportal-dev] Program Schedule for "Higher Education Solutions: The Commmunity Source Way!"

[Jonathan Markow]

*Higher Education Solutions:  The Community Source Way!*
April 27 -30, 2008
The Crowne Plaza Hotel
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

We are pleased to let you know that the JA-SIG Spring 2008 program schedule
is posted at the conference site:

http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html.  (Click the "Program"
link at the top of the page.)

   - Conference events run Sunday, April 27th through Wednesday, April
   30th.
   - Supplementary seminars are scheduled before and after the
   conference.
   - A BarCamp and a UCamp are scheduled on Wednesday afternoon (See site
   descriptions for these unique events)
   - Presentations, Panel discussions, Poster sessions, BOF's, Case
   Studies, How-to's.
   - Keynotes by Ira H. Fuchs, Kaye Howe, and a panel of Community Source
   leaders
   - CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal

Join us for the most comprehensive gathering of the higher education open
source community in 2008!

Early registration discounts are available through March 23, 2008.

Register now at http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/registration.html.

Don't forget to make your hotel reservations!  You can make your
reservations at the Crowne Plaza St. Paul - Riverfront by visiting
http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/accom-travel.html and following
the instructions for booking online or calling the number provided on the
page.

Subscribe to the conference blog, The Community Source Way
http://jasig2008.blogspot.com, for news and updates about the  event.

Join the Conference networking site at
http://ja-sigspring08.crowdvine.com/.

We hope to see you there!

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Re: [uportal-dev] uPortal 3.0.0-RC2 Release Announcement

[Jonathan Markow]

I'll second that!
-Jonathan

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Timothy Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Congrats Eric, and great job to everyone involved...
>
> Eric Dalquist wrote:
> >
> > JA-SIG is proud to announce the release of uPortal 3.0.0 Release
> > Candidate 2. This is the second release in the uPortal 3.0.0 line
> > based on the core uPortal code base and the first 3.0.0 release
> > candidate based on the core uPortal code base. Full release notes are
> > available http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/3.0.0+RC2^ along with
> > a uPortal 3.0 release overview
> > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/3.0^
> >
> > This release includes the following new features and fixes:
> >
> > * A new theme and skin along with a more understandable directory
> >   structure for layout and skin related files. The new skin is
> >   also using jQuery to provide drag and drop features which are
> >   enabled by default. Thanks to Gary Thompson from Unicon and Jen
> >   Bourey from Yale for this work.
> > * Layout cache friendly dynamic title support for channels and
> >   portlets. Dynamic titles for channels and portlets work on every
> >   render now. Thanks to Nick Bolton from Unicon for this work.
> > * Quickstart generation scripts. Quickstart generation is now as
> >   simple as running an Ant task.
> > * Consistent cache scheme and configuration based on
> >   Spring-Modules Caching API. Most existing dynamic caches have
> >   been converted to use the new API and it is currently backed by
> >   EHCache though other caching frameworks can easily be used.
> > * CAS 3.2 is bundled with uPortal and is used as the default
> >   authentication mechanism. Thanks to Scott Battaglia from
> >   Rutgers, Andrew Petro from Unicon and Jen Bourey from Yale for
> >   this work.
> > * CAS Proxy tickets are available to JSR-168 portlets as a user
> >   attribute. Thanks to Jen Bourey from Yale for this work.
> >
> > Source and Quick Start downloads are available on the uPortal All
> > Release^  page. The
> > generated Maven site which includes JavaDocs and other interesting is
> > available as well:
> > http://developer.ja-sig.org/projects/uportal/3.0.0-RC2/^
> >
> > This Release Candidate is Feature Complete. At this point the only
> > changes that will be made before a General Audience release are bug
> > fixes. I would encourage everyone to try the release and please file
> > bugs that you find in the JA-SIG Issue Tracker^
> > <
> http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/secure/CreateIssue.jspa?pid=10020&issuetype=1&Next%3E%3E=Next%3E%3E
> >
> >
> > I want to thank everyone who contributed to the development both
> > directly and in-directly. Having this developer community available
> > for both code and design insight has been invaluable.
> >
> > uPortal 3.0.0 Release Engineer,
> > -Eric Dalquist
> >
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[uportal-dev] Reminder - JA-SIG 2008 Spring Conference Call for Session and Poster Proposals

[Jonathan Markow]

First, a reminder that proposals for one hour session presentations are
due Friday, February 22! Submit yours today at http://tinyurl.com/2voabt

Second, a reminder that registration is open at
http://tinyurl.com/393p3g . Register now for an early discount.

Third, this year we are introducing something new: An Evening Poster
Session:

Enjoy great food! Share ideas with your colleagues! Learn something new!

Monday evening from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM we will gather in a large room
where you can enjoy refreshments and browse various poster
presentations. This provides a forum for presenters to highlight their
projects and share their successful ideas with the community. Poster
presentations provide conference participants an opportunity to quickly
and easily become acquainted with what others in the open source
community are doing.

Poster sessions offer a great opportunity for first time presenters. You
will engage with a smaller group in a more informal setting. Food and
drink will be available in the room. Attendees will be able to grab a
snack and visit the poster presentations. The informal nature of the
event encourages interaction between presenters and attendees. This
dialog provides an opportunity for a fruitful exchange of ideas.

For more information on the Poster Session, how to submit a proposal and
tips on creating poster presentations, see
http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/1ICi

See you in St. Paul this April!

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Re: [uportal-dev] Post Conference Developers Meeting

[Jonathan Markow]

Also, please add your name to the wiki page that Eric mentions below if you
think you'll probably be there.  We're looking for space for this meeting
now, and we need to estimate how many people plan to attend as soon as we
can.

BTW, we're actually looking for additional Thursday and Friday space.  On
Wednesday afternoon, the expectation is that we'll be able to use the
BarCamp space for this, which is huge (and would also encourage visitors
from other BarCamp discussions).

-Jonathan

On Feb 12, 2008 10:52 AM, Eric Dalquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In an on-going effort to reduce the travel and time burden on developers
> wishing to participate in the uPortal and JA-SIG community we will be
> holding the spring uPortal developers meeting the Wednesday through
> Friday following the JA-SIG conference. Arrangements are being made for
> meeting space either at or near the conference hotel and developers
> interested in uPortal, Fluid, CAS, or any other related project are
> encouraged to attend.
>
> This time is a wonderful opportunity for some face to face meetings and
> development. From the uPortal side of things I'm sure we will be talking
> about what to include in uPortal 3.1, how development is going on some
> of the new portlets we're been hearing about on the list and how or work
> with Fluid and other open source projects is going.
>
> There is a stub of a wiki page for this meeting which will be filled out
> with more information as it becomes available. Please feel free to add
> agenda items you would like to talk about or see talked about to this
> page.
>
> http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/uPortal+Developers+Meeting+at+St.+Paul+-+2008.04
>
>
> I'm looking forward to working with everyone that week and hope you can
> make plans to be there and participate!
>
> -Eric Dalquist
>
> PS: Please pass this on to other people or groups that may be interested
> in attending.
>

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[uportal-dev] Website Improvements

[Jonathan Markow]

JA-SIG is about to begin an effort to improve its websites.  This initiative
will be coordinated by webmaster John Fereira and will be tracked on the
jasig-webpresence email list and wiki space.  We plan to take incremental
steps, beginning with some reorganization and editing to make basic
information more current and accessible, especially to newcomers.  A more
comprehensive redesign will then follow.

We would appreciate hearing any thoughts and suggestions you might have.
There are two ways you can get involved:

1.  Subscribe to the webpresence list and join/follow the discussion:
http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/SoBO
2.  Send an email to jasig-webpresence at lists.ja-sig.org with your
suggestions

If you've got some ideas you would like to share, we're hoping to hear from
you soon!

Thanks,
Jonathan Markow

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Re: [uportal-dev] JA-SIG Weather Portlet

[Jonathan Markow]

Should we ask for a volunteer to take responsibility for the five or six
steps required to set up a new portlet mini-project this way?

-JJM

On Feb 6, 2008 12:42 PM, Cris J Holdorph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> No disagreement with any of the things Eric proposes.
>
> +1 for all
>
>  Cris J H
>
> Eric Dalquist wrote:
> > This sounds great Dustin!
> >
> > I'd like to propose the following
> > -Give Dustin svn commit access
> > -Create a sandbox svn module
> > https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/sandbox/WeatherPortlet The portlet would get
> > moved to the portlets/ directory as of the first RC
> > -Create a child page of the Portlets wiki space to be the parent page
> > for weather portlet content: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/PLT/Home
> > -Create a WeatherPortlet Jira project in the portlets group
> >
> > Should we also look at creating weather portlet mailing lists or should
> > we follow up on creating the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list and use
> > that until there is a need for a project specific list?
> >
> > Please let me know what you think. Also I'm heading out on vacation
> > later today until Monday so I won't be available for actually doing any
> > of this resource allocation until I get back. If consensus on the list
> > is reached others with access should feel free to do the allocation &
> > creation.
> >
> > -Eric
> >
> >
> > Dustin S. wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> We have been discussing creating a weather portlet for inclusion to
> >> uPortal 3 on the uportal-user list and I'd like to move that
> >> conversation to the uportal-dev list as it is progressing.
> >>
> >> Project Objectives:
> >>
> >> * A JSR-168 portlet that
> >>   o can retrieve international weather and display that
> >> information in a user friendly format
> >>   o can be used commercially and non-commercially
> >>   o has a well structured design/interface so others may
> >> implement their own weather services if they wish
> >>
> >> Project Technologies:
> >>
> >> * Spring Framework
> >> * Maven 2
> >>
> >> Current Members involved:
> >>
> >> * Myself (Dustin)
> >> * Erin Garlock from CampusEAI
> >> * Anyone else that would like to help...everyone is welcome.
> >>
> >> This email is to alert everyone to the creation of the project and to
> >> request resources (SVN, JIRA, Wiki) to support and begin development.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Dustin.
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Re: [uportal-dev] JA-SIG Weather Portlet

[Jonathan Markow]

I'm all for this.  A couple of points:

- There was some disagreement last time we talked about the relative merits
of individual portlet mailing lists versus the general portlet-dev and
portlet-user lists.  I'm in favor of starting out with the general list,
spinning others off if the need arises.

- It would be nice to have a standard template or format for the individual
child pages that are home to the portlets.  Anyone want to propose one?

-Jonathan

On Feb 6, 2008 9:47 AM, Eric Dalquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  This sounds great Dustin!
>
> I'd like to propose the following
> -Give Dustin svn commit access
> -Create a sandbox svn module
> https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/sandbox/WeatherPortlet The portlet would get
> moved to the portlets/ directory as of the first RC
> -Create a child page of the Portlets wiki space to be the parent page for
> weather portlet content: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/PLT/Home
> -Create a WeatherPortlet Jira project in the portlets group
>
> Should we also look at creating weather portlet mailing lists or should we
> follow up on creating the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list and use that
> until there is a need for a project specific list?
>
> Please let me know what you think. Also I'm heading out on vacation later
> today until Monday so I won't be available for actually doing any of this
> resource allocation until I get back. If consensus on the list is reached
> others with access should feel free to do the allocation & creation.
>
> -Eric
>
>
> Dustin S. wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We have been discussing creating a weather portlet for inclusion to
> uPortal 3 on the uportal-user list and I'd like to move that conversation to
> the uportal-dev list as it is progressing.
>
> Project Objectives:
>
>- A JSR-168 portlet that
> - can retrieve international weather and display that information
>   in a user friendly format
> - can be used commercially and non-commercially
>   - has a well structured design/interface so others may
>   implement their own weather services if they wish
>
> Project Technologies:
>
>- Spring Framework
>- Maven 2
>
> Current Members involved:
>
>- Myself (Dustin)
>- Erin Garlock from CampusEAI
>- Anyone else that would like to help...everyone is welcome.
>
> This email is to alert everyone to the creation of the project and to
> request resources (SVN, JIRA, Wiki) to support and begin development.
>
> Thanks,
> Dustin.
>
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[uportal-dev] Registration is Open: "Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way!"

[Jonathan Markow]

*Higher Education Solutions:  The Community Source Way!*
April 27 -30, 2008
The Crowne Plaza Hotel
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

Registration for the JA-SIG Spring Conference in St. Paul is now open!  This
year, CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Kuali, Internet2, Sakai, and uPortal are
planning a joint program.

   - Conference events run Sunday, April 27th through Wednesday, April
   30th.
   - Supplementary seminars are scheduled before and after the
   conference.
   - A BarCamp and a UCamp are scheduled on Wednesday afternoon (See site
   descriptions for these unique events)

Visit the main conference site at
http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html for details.  Early
registration discounts end March 23, 2008.  Register now at
http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/registration.html .

We invite you to submit a presentation proposal.  The Call for Proposals
final deadline is Friday, February 22, 2008.  Submit your proposal at
http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html.

Developers, designers, content providers, administrators, faculty, planners,
strategists, decision makers... If you'd like to find out more about
community source, learn from the experts, and collaborate with your
peers...Come to *"Higher Education Solutions:  The Community Source Way!"*

See you in St. Paul this April!

2008 JA-SIG Spring Program Committee

Aaron Godert, Cornell University, JA-SIG Board and Conference Co-Chair
Jonathan Markow, JA-SIG Executive Director, Conference Co-Chair
Susan Bramhall, Yale University, uPortal Liaison
Daniel Davis, Chief Architect, Fedora Commons
John Fereira, Cornell University, Web Master
Jim Helwig, University of Wisconsin, Madison, JA-SIG Board
Valerie Hollister, DSpace Liaison
Susan Inouye, University of Hawaii, Member
Michele Kimpton, DSpace Executive Director
Michael Korcuska, Sakai Executive Director
Phil McKown, Indiana University, Kuali Liason
Matt Smith, University of Connecticut, CAS Liaison
Ann West, Internet2 Liaison
Paul Zablosky, University of British Columbia, Fluid Liaison
Jennifer Cummings, CONCENTRA Management Services
Debbie Smith, CONCENTRA Management Services

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[uportal-dev] Call for Proposals: JA-SIG Presents "Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way"

[Jonathan Markow]

Apologies for the cross-posting...

**
*Higher Education Solutions:  The Community Source Way!*

April 28 – 30, 2008
St. Paul, MN, USA

Featuring…

*CAS*, *DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal …and more!**
*

*Call for Proposals now open*
Deadline for submission of proposals: February 22, 2008

Conference site:
*http//www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html
*


Dear Colleague:

The JA-SIG Spring 2008 Conference will be held at the end of April this
year. We have extended invitations to our many colleagues in higher
education community source to share in the event, and we're excited to
present a first-time, jointly planned conference.

Whatever your project affiliation, become an active part of this conference
by submitting proposals for presentations, BOF (Birds Of a Feather)
sessions, and Poster Sessions using the link at the bottom of this message.
Topics that span projects are particularly welcome!

We welcome your contributions in the following areas:

   - *Community Source Management/Governance:  *What are best practices
   for managing community source projects or their deployments on campus? For
   encouraging adoption? For gaining acceptance and campus buy-in? For engaging
   your community in the processes? Presentations for managers, team leaders,
   executives, planners and strategists.
   - *Design and Development:  *For developers, architects, UX designers,
   testers. Presentations for people who build community source products, use
   them as a development framework or want to learn more about doing so. These
   are technical topics, tips and techniques, how-to's.
   - *Deployment and Integration:  *Presentations for people who need to
   make applications work on campus: developers, content providers, team
   leaders, evangelists. In particular, we would like to highlight work that
   integrates community source projects within the enterprise infrastructure
   and with each other.
   - *Multiple Audiences:  *Presentations that span multiple projects or
   audience types. Community source project introductions and overviews.

Half-day Supplementary Seminars (already selected) will be held in the
morning and afternoon on Sunday, April 27th as well as on Wednesday (April
30th) afternoon, presented by representatives from each of our partnering
organizations. [See
Details].
 A barCamp and UCamp will be held on Wednesday afternoon in the style of our
recent "Unconference" –a great informal opportunity to network and meet the
experts.

Proposals may be entered on the JA-SIG Conference Website. Proposals require
a Title, an Abstract (under 500 words), a Presenter Profile, and some basic
affiliation information.

Submit your proposal directly by clicking here  *http://tinyurl.com/2voabt *or
from the conference home page, where you can find all the details: *
http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html*

Registration Information will be coming soon. Check back later for more
information.

Join your colleagues in St. Paul this April.  This will be an unprecedented
opportunity to meet and learn from each other. See you at "Higher Education
Solutions:  The Community Source Way"!

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Re: [uportal-dev] seminars for April JA-SIG conferene

[Jonathan Markow]

Another consideration for pre- and post-conf seminars:  Besides our usual
high number of new attendees wanting to check out uPortal, we expect to see
a lot of folks from the other projects that are collaborating with us on the
conference program--Sakai, Kuali, Fedora, DSpace, Internet2, and Fluid.  So,
introductory, beginners, and how-to seminars would probably be very
appropriate this year...
-Jonathan

On Jan 4, 2008 11:24 AM, Susan Bramhall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  Hello developers.  The spring ja-sig conference (spring - yay!) planning
> is picking up speed. The conference, April 28-30 at Crowne Plaza Hotel, St.
> Paul, MN, is shaping up to be an exciting event with broad participation
> from several higher ed community source projects.  The program committee is
> now seeking a few proposals for pre or post conference uPortal seminars.
> Suggestions from the committee members are:
>
>- Scaling uPortal with session replication
>- Understanding and customizing uPortal presentation layer
>(including Fluid components?)
>
> But these are only suggestions.  We have recently had an introductory
> seminar "uPortal 101" from Andrew Petro as well as the ever popular Spring
> portlet MVC and portlet development seminars.  Are there folks out there who
> would like to give a seminar?  I would like to get the following
> information:
>
>1. Title - a phrase or one sentence summary
>2. Description - approximately 4 - 5 sentences describing what an
>attendee would expect to hear about; graphics can also be included
>3. Length - whether you expect the session to be a half-day or
>full-day seminar
>4. Pre or Post - whether you would rather see the seminar on Sunday
>(Pre-Conf) or on Wednesday (Post-Conf)
>5. Presenter/s - not required right away
>
> We need to get seminars firmed up in the next week so now is the time to
> commit to making a contribution this way.
> Thanks.
> Susan
>
> --
> It's no use trying to be clever--we are all clever here; just try to be 
> kind--a little kind.
> -- F.J. Foakes Jackson
>
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[uportal-dev] uPortal Board Liaison

[Jonathan Markow]

After a long stint of service and a terrific job, Bill Thompson is
stepping down as uPortal Board Liaison.  I'm happy to let you know
that Jim Helwig has agreed to take over these responsibilities,
effective January 1st.  Jim will replace Bill on the uPortal Project
Steering Committee in this new capacity.

I'd like to thank Bill for his trusty stewardship and the work that he
has done to make Rutgers a leading institution during an impressive
growth phase for uPortal.  Don't worry, we're not letting him wander
too far and we know where he lives.

Jim has made UW-Madison a key uPortal school in recent years and has
been a very strong supporter of the project.  We appreciate his
continued commitment and we're looking forward to his contributions to
the uPortal PSC.

Thanks,
Jonathan

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[uportal-dev] Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way

[Jonathan Markow]

Friends-

The JA-SIG Spring 2008 Conference will be held at the end of April
this year, a change in schedule for us.  We have extended invitations
to our many colleagues in higher education community source to share
in the event, and we're excited to present a first-time, jointly
planned conference.

It's an unprecedented opportunity to meet and learn from each other.
We're hoping to see you there!

Jonathan Markow
JA-SIG Board Chair and Acting Executive Director


**   Hold the Dates!   ***

Monday, April 28th to Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
(Pre-Conference Seminars on Sunday, April 27th)
Crowne Plaza St. Paul Riverfront Hotel
St. Paul, Minnesota

JA-SIG presents
HIGHER EDUCATION SOLUTIONS:  THE COMMUNITY SOURCE WAY

The program is being planned jointly by representatives from--

DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, JA-SIG, and Sakai

The aim is to expose our respective communities to the
wide array of community source efforts in our field, to share
technologies across project boundaries, and to approach common
issues and problems together in the areas of planning, strategy,
software development, adoption, and sustainability.

Target audience:  Developers, designers, content providers,
administrators, faculty, planners, strategists, decision makers...
There will be something for everyone!

Watch for registration information and Call for Proposals
in January, 2008.

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Re: [uportal-dev] uPortal 2.6.1 GA now available

[Jonathan Markow]

Way to go!
-Jonathan

On Dec 12, 2007 1:05 PM, Andrew Petro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> uPortal developer community,
>
> I am pleased to announce the availability of the "general audience"
> release of uPortal 2.6.1. This release is available for immediate
> download from the uPortal website and is tagged in SVN.
>
> (See news item as posted on www.uportal.org):
>
> http://www.uportal.org/
>
> Since the GA release of uPortal 2.6.0, several issues have been
> addressed, including a functional off-line build and deploy script.
>
> Many people contributed code, testing, feedback, and issues leading up
> to the uPortal 2.6.1 release, including Nick Bolton, Timothy Carroll,
> Eric Dalquist, Andy Gherna, Cris Holdorph, Brad Johnson, and Andrew
> Wills, to name a few. These people and others deserve credit for their
> parts in making uPortal possible.
>
> By far the majority of effort on uPortal 2.6.1 GA release engineering
> was performed by Eric Dalquist, to whom the project owes thanks for
> this as well as many other efforts.
>
> Tag and release of 2.6.1 GA frees the 2-6-patches branch for further
> fixing and enhancement. Drew, I understand you're especially
> enthusiastic about some import-export enhancements...
>
> Andrew Petro
> uPortal 2.6.1 release engineer
>
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[uportal-dev] Plain Vanilla Screenshot, Anyone?

[Jonathan Markow]

uPortal will be included as one of 16 products in the next edition of
the semi-annual "Enterprise Portals Report," which examines the
enterprise portal industry.  One of the co-authors has requested a
screenshot of an out-of-the-box uPortal page.  Can anyone provide this
for uPortal 2.6?  If so, please email it to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thanks much,
Jonathan

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[uportal-dev] IBM uPortal Project

[Jonathan Markow]

IBM Global Education is interested in becoming more familiar running
uPortal on an IBM platform and would like to partner with someone from
the JA-SIG community to set up a prototype.  If your
institution/company would like to participate in a small project to
accomplish this, please send me an email off-list.

Thanks,
Jonathan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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[uportal-dev] Fwd: [jasig-board] Coverity adds Java support

[Jonathan Markow]

FYI:  I'm forwarding this news from one of our JA-SIG board directors
to CAS and uPortal dev lists for your consideration...
Thanks,
Jonathan


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From: Jens Haeusser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Nov 28, 2007 10:35 AM
Subject: [jasig-board] Coverity adds Java support
To: JA-SIG Board <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


Coverity, a source code security scanner for open source software (
http://scan.coverity.com/ ), has just added support for Java based projects.
Coverity came out of Stanford, and has received funding from the Department
of Homeland Security to offer free code scanning to the open source
community. It's currently used by most of the biggies- Linux, FreeBSD, gcc,
Apache, Firefox, etc.

Coverity announced support for Java projects a few days ago, and is adding
them on a first come, first served basis. Is this something we should
encourage our uPortal and CAS developers to use?

Campus Technology has a summary article at
http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/56213 .

Jens


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[uportal-dev] Register Now for the November JA-SIG Unconference

[Jonathan Markow]

If you're planning to attend our first JA-SIG Unconference (Nov 12-13 at
Rutgers University), register NOW.

The costs are very low and the content/learning value is very high!

Here is a handy 7-point checklist for prospective Unconference attendees:


   1. Take a look at what's being planned on the Unconference wiki
   space:  http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/MQRl
   2. Decide you really don't want to miss any of this!
   3. Register for the Unconference right here:
   https://www.concentra-cms.com/register/start.action?confId=28
   4. Visit and add your name on the Unconference Planning Site on the
   JA-SIG 
wiki.
   This is a great place to indicate your interests---what you'd like to
   discuss, learn, share or teach. It is also a good place to note your travel
   arrangements. This can assist in coordinating with others.
   5. Call the Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center at *
   732-932-9144* to reserve a room  for your stay.  Hurry!  Rooms are
   limited, and the conference rate will only be held until October 25th. Make
   sure you ask for the "JA-SIG Unconference" room block and rate!
   6. Take a look at hotel, travel directions, and other information at
   http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/SoF7
   7. If you are unable to book a room at the University Inn and
   Conference Center, consult these lists of other nearby hotels:
   http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/leadconf/hotels.pdf,
   
http://www.travelforecaster.com/hotelinfo/east_brunswick/nj/usa/92151/#trafficID=500026519&refererPageID=10.
   You may want to check the participants
pageto
see where others are staying.


See you at the Unconference,

The Winter 2007 JA-SIG Unconference Committee

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[uportal-dev] JA-SIG Unconference - Register Now

[Jonathan Markow]

Apologies for the cross-posting...*

THE JA-SIG WINTER 2007 UNCONFERENCE IS COMING!
*

   - Registration fee for the November 12th-13th, 2007 JA-SIG
   Unconference:  $225
   - Nightly rate at the Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center:
   $84
   - Two days talking, learning, teaching, planning, coding, and hanging
   out with your peers--and with the uPortal, CAS, Fluid, JSR-168, SpringMVC
   experts:  Priceless!


*New Information!  How to Register!* Who. What. Where.

*Dates**: *

November 12-13, 2007
November 14-16th, 2007 (optional post-conference activities)

*Place**: *

Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center  ,
178 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, NJ; phone:  732-932-9144

*Registration Fee**: *

$225  (Includes lunch and snacks)

*Inn Rooms**: *

$84/single/night (w/breakfast)

What's an Unconference?

"An *unconference* is a conference where the content of the sessions is
driven and created by the participants, generally day-by-day during the
course of the event, rather than by a single organizer, or small group of
organizers, in advance."
-*Wikipedia*

JA-SIG has always been about people coming together to share and learn in an
open environment, and this is what an "unconference" is all about. As
demonstrated by the success of the Summer 2007 Conference mini "BarCamp"
(another spontaneous approach), the unconference format fits very well with
our community values and goals.

The November event will provide both spontaneous and planned opportunities
to collaborate on all JA-SIG community initiatives and topics. (There will
not be a separate Winter Conference or a Fall uPortal Developer Meeting.)
*What are we going to do?!*

It's up to you!  Ideas people are talking about so far include the
following:

   - Lightning Talks
   


   - Volunteers talk for up to 10 minutes. Any topic goes.
   - Code Clinics - Bring your uPortal, portlet, or CAS code or problem
   and work on it with core developers
   - Screencast Factory - Show off your work while a facilitator captures
   it to share with the community.
   - UCamp - Fluid Project members will lead a workshop and
   collaborations about user experience design and accessibility.
   - Strategic Planning - What should JA-SIG be focused on next year?  In
   three years?  Join the conversation.
   - How-to's. How-not-to's.  Tips and techniques.

As part of the un-conference format the final schedule will be determined in
real-time, interactively with the attendees.  See a list of ideas for
activities and add your
own
 .
OK, I'm Interested!* * *How do I Register?*

If you're planning to join us, please do the following:

   1. Register for the Unconference right
here:https://www.concentra-cms.com/register/start.action?confId=28

   2. Visit and Add your Name on the Unconference Planning Site on the
   JA-SIG 
wiki
.
   This is a great place to indicate your interests---what you'd like to
   discuss, learn, share or teach.
   3. Call the Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center at *
   732-932-9144* to Reserve a Room  for your stay.  Hurry!  Rooms are
   limited, and the conference rate will only be held for a brief period.
   4. Take a look detailed hotel, travel directions, and other
   information at  http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/SoF7
   5. If you are unable to book a room at the University Inn and
   Conference Center, consult this list of other nearby hotels:
   http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/leadconf/hotels.pdf.

See you at the Unconference,

*The Winter 2007 Unconference Organizers*


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Re:[uportal-dev] JA-SIG Election Results

[Jonathan Markow]

Congratulations to our newly elected board directors and project steering
committee (PSC) members.

Concurrent with the election of the three"stakeholder" positions on the
uPortal PSC, our uPortal committers nominated and elected two developer
representatives to the committee.  Chosen unanimously by the developer group
were Eric Dalquist of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Andrew Petro
from Unicon, so congratulations are also due to Andrew and Eric.  The
uPortal PSC is also rounded out by the inclusion of Bill Thompson, who will
continue to serve as board liaison to the project.

I second Carl Jacobson's thanks to all who participated in the election
process and add thanks to Carl himself, along with fellow election committee
members Dave Koehler and Deb Smith.  Finally, thanks also to my colleagues
on JA-SIG's current board of directors for their leadership and oversight.

Jonathan Markow
JA-SIG Board Chair


On 9/20/07, Carl Jacobson: University of Delaware < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The JA-SIG Elections Committee is pleased to announce the results of the
> 2007 JA-SIG elections.  Member organizations were asked to select two
> positions on the JA-SIG Board of Directors and three stakeholder positions
> on the uPortal Project Steering Committee.
>
> A tie vote in the Board race was seen as an indication that all three
> board candidates have strong support from the JA-SIG community... therefore
> it is the recommendation of the Elections Committee, and the decision of the
> Board of Directors to appoint all three candidates to Board positions.
> Joining the Board of Directors are Susan Bramhall of Yale, Ken McCrery of
> Virginia Tech and Jason Shao of Rutgers.
>
> Also elected were three representatives to the uPortal Steering
> Committee.  They are Matt Young of Duke, Andy Newman of Yale, and Colin
> Clark of the University of Toronto.
>
> These positions become official on Monday, October 1, 2007.
>
> The JA-SIG Elections Committee extends thanks to all who participated in
> the nomination and election.
>
> Carl Jacobson
> Dave Koehler
> Deb Smith
>

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[uportal-dev] The JA-SIG Winter 2007 Unconference is Coming!

[Jonathan Markow]

The JA-SIG Winter 2007 Unconference is Coming!

Who? What? Where?

Dates:  November 12-13, 2007
* November 14-16, 2007 (optional post-conference activities)

Place: New Brunswick, NJ (Home of Rutgers University)

Details: Info about fees, lodging, meals, etc. will be coming very
soon. Costs will be low, as making this an affordable event with low
barriers to participation is a key focus.

What's an Unconference?

"An unconference is a conference where the content of the sessions is
driven and created by the participants, generally day-by-day during
the course of the event, rather than by a single organizer, or small
group of organizers, in advance."
-Wikipedia

JA-SIG has always been about people coming together to share and
learn in an open environment, and this is what an "unconference" is
all about. As demonstrated by the success of the Summer 2007
Conference mini "BarCamp" (another spontaneous approach), the
unconference format fits very well with our community values and goals.

The November event will provide both spontaneous and planned
opportunities to collaborate on all JA-SIG community initiatives and
topics. (There will not be a separate Winter Conference or a Fall
uPortal Developer Meeting.)

What are we going to do?!

It's up to you!  Ideas people are talking about so far include the
following:

* Lightning Talks - Volunteers talk for up to 10 minutes. Any topic
goes.
* Code Clinics - Bring your uPortal, portlet, or CAS code or problem
and work on it with core developers.
* Screencast Factory - Show off your work while a facilitator
captures it to share with the community.
* UCamp - Fluid Project members will lead a workshop and
collaborations about user experience design and accessibility.
* Strategic Planning - What should JA-SIG be focused on next year?
In three years?  Join the conversation.
* How-to's. How-not-to's. Tips and techniques.

As part of the unconference format, the final schedule will be
determined in real-time, interactively with the attendees. So come
prepared to participate.

You can view a list of potential activities on the wiki at:
http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/qAFz

OK, I'm Interested!  What do I do next?

If you're hoping to join us, please do the following two things for now:

Register yourself at
http://opensource.meetup.com/74/calendar/6047091/
RSVP there whether you are a "Yes" or a "Maybe".

Visit the Unconference Planning Site on the JA-SIG wiki:
http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JCON/Winter+2007
+UnConference+Participants

This is a great place to indicate your interests---what you'd like to
discuss, learn, share or teach.

If you'd like to participate in planning or logistics, join our
mailing list: 
http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/winter-07-unconference

Best regards, and we hope to see you at the Unconference,
The Winter 2007 Unconference Committee

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Re: [uportal-dev] where to document the uPortal 3 efforts in the wiki

[Jonathan Markow]

+1 for these suggestions.
-Jonathan

On 9/17/07, Andrew Petro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  Eric,
>
> I wonder if it would be clearer to re-name the entire current "uPortal 3"
> space to something like "uPortal Sandbox" and create a new uPortal 3 space,
> moving into it the (relatively few) pages that are fully relevant.  This
> would effectively separate all the pages that don't actually apply to the
> code being developed and delivered as uPortal 3 from the pages that do.  It
> would also create a natural process for how to migrate the good ideas from
> the sandbox code and documentation into the real uPortal code and
> documentation -- when they've been revisited and refactored to apply to the
> code being delivered as uPortal 3, they are welcome to make the jump into
> the wiki space about uPortal 3 as it is being delivered.
>
> And then I wonder whether creating a new uPortal 3 wiki space is a good
> idea, or if the uPortal 3 efforts should be undertaken in the existing
> uPortal wiki space.  The change the project has made in its approach to
> uPortal 3 is to be more evolutionary.  uPortal 3 *is* uPortal 2, cleaned up
> quite a bit and with pointed improvements.  So maybe, just as the existing
> code evolves to become uPortal 3, the existing wiki space evolves to become
> a wiki space that documents uPortal, inclusive of uPortal 3.
>
> Likewise, I don't think it will be necessary to have an entirely new
> uPortal manual, more a matter of growing and enhancing the existing uPortal
> manual wiki space to document the project as it grows and is enhanced.
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
>
>
> With this progress and new build system I need to get it properly
> documented and have a place for documentation as this effort moves forward.
> After looking through the wiki and chatting in IRC I have the following
> proposal. All documentation in the uPortal 3 space related to the uPortal 3
> sandbox code would be consolidated and moved under a uP3-Sandbox page then
> the uPortal 3 space would be used for documentation of the goals of this
> effort and documentation of changes as they happen. I'd like to get other
> thoughts and suggestions as to how to deal with the wiki documentation as
> well.
>
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