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The JA-SIG Spring Conference
April 27-30, 2008
Crowne Plaza Hotel, St. Paul, MN, USA

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.

General Session and Keynote addresses

Monday, April 28

Community Source in Higher Education: Leaders' Panel with representatives from all of the partner projects.

Tuesday, April 29

Moving Community Source to the Mainstream: Overcoming the Obstacles to Adoption. Presented by Ira H. Fuchs, Vice President for Research in Information Technology at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Wednesday, April 30

Ubiquity, Interdependence, and the Age of Collaboration Presented by Kaye Howe, Executive Director, National Science Digital Library

The main Program is being currently developed in four tracks:

• 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.

Supplementary seminars: Half-day Seminars 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 the partnering organizations. [See Details].

Post Conference Activity: The conference includes some exciting and dynamic activities on Wednesday afternoon: a BarCamp and a UCamp These are included in the regular conference registration. Learn more about these activities in this wiki. Your ideas and help are greatly encouraged.

Many of the projects participating in the conference will take advantage of the opportunity to hold meetings during the rest of the week. The uPortal developers plan a meeting during those days. More Information can be found on our wiki.

Poster Sessions: For the first time, a community gathering area will be set up for poster sessions. A poster session will provide a forum for presenters to highlight their programs, projects, and to share their successful ideas with the community. Poster presentations provide other conference participants an opportunity to quickly and easily become acquainted with what others in the open source community are doing.
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The JA-SIG Spring 2008 Conference will provide an unprecedented opportunity to meet and learn from each other. We're hoping to see you there!