Upcoming Spring 2008 Conference

April 27th through 30th in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Registration now open.

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Purpose of the JA-SIG

- to provide education and research in the applied use of open technology architectures and systems in higher education

- to develop a global academic community of interest among practitioners and institutions and to inform that community of international activities, projects, and opportunities in the field of open technology architectures and systems in higher education

- to educate by coaching, collaborating, and sharing good practices, and disseminating the results of innovative approaches in this field

- to create, through its various activities including conferences, projects, and outreach, an atmosphere of trust, goodwill, and mutual respect amongst all participants

Activities

The JA-SIG membership is engaged in several activities. The first is the sponsorship of an annual conference. The conference, having two technical and one management track, formally held semi-annually is now a multi-day community source event. A second activity, the JA-SIG Clearinghouse, is a place on the Web to facilitate the sharing of community source components. The third JA-SIG activity is the development of a free, open source, open standard portal for higher education: uPortal.

Our Supporters

JA-SIG wishes to acknowledge the generous support of:

Sun Microsystems

Unicon Announces Commercial Support for uPortal 3
*Phoenix, AZ - *Unicon, Inc <http://www.unicon.net/opensource>., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals,<http://www.unicon.net/opensource>applications, and top end technology consulting for higher education, today announced commercial support for uPortal 3, the next generation community source portal platform designed by and for the higher education community.
Johns Hopkins University Selects Unicon to Develop uPortal Mobile for Campus & Students
Phoenix, AZ - April 21, 2008 - Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals, applications, and top end technology consulting for higher education, today announced it has been chosen by Johns Hopkins University to develop and deploy its new mobility theme based on uPortal, the open source enterprise portal for higher ed. The mobility theme is designed to enhance the functionality and content of its campus portal to make it accessible by mobile devices such as cell phones, SmartPhones, and PDAs and more useful to students, faculty, and administrators. The mobility development work and testing is scheduled to be completed and go live in the summer of 2008. Johns Hopkins University plans to donate the mobile development work back to the uPortal open source community.
JA-SIG Releases uPortal 3.0.0-GA for Production Use
The JA-SIG uPortal Project Steering Committee is extremely pleased to announce the release of uPortal 3.0, the next generation community source portal platform designed by and for the higher education community. The new release marks a major, evolutionary step forward for the award-winning project. Version 3.0 has brought the rock solid, high performing uPortal 2.x product to a new level, incorporating current best practices in enterprise Java. The entire uPortal community can unite on one branch moving forward, and it is now possible for everyone to migrate to the latest version of uPortal when appropriate for their institution. uPortal 3.0 builds upon the flexibility and reliability of uPortal 2.x while providing an attractive look and feel using improved JavaScript libraries, even more robust portlet support, a modern build environment, use of leading Java frameworks (Spring), and other enhancements, bringing the larger deployments and performance already achieved in uPortal 2 in easier reach of more uPortal adopters.
St. Paul, MN April JA-SIG Conference Seminars Announced
JA-SIG is pleased to announce selection of pre- and post-conference seminars about open source software for the Spring 2008 JA-SIG conference to be held in St. Paul, Minnesota. Pre-conference events to be held on Sunday April 27th include hands-on introductions to Kuali Financials, Spring PortletMVC, Fedora repository, and CAS; tutorials on uPortal and DSpace upgrading; and seminars on JavaScript and identity management. Post-conference events on Wednesday April 30th include introductions to Kuali Rice, uPortal, and Sakai, as well as a half-day Bar Camp. Oh, and there will be a whole conference in between these seminars: more on that to come. In the meantime, sign up now to reserve your place in your seminars of choice. http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/
Pearson Education Reaches Over One Million Students With JA-SIG's uPortal
Educational Publisher Pearson Education's CourseCompass Product Provides Course Content to a Growing Community through JA-SIG's Award-Winning Portal
JA-SIG Announces Immediate Availability of uPortal 2.6 and Central Authentication Service (CAS) 3.1
Award-winning Higher Education Portal and Central Authentication Service Offer Major New Features
uPortal Receives Prestigious EDUCAUSE Catalyst Award
Princeton, NJ – June 25, 2007 – JA-SIG, the non-profit organization responsible for the uPortal community source enterprise portal, today announced that uPortal has received the prestigious EDUCAUSE Catalyst Award for its innovations and initiatives centered on information technologies that provide groundbreaking solutions to major challenges in higher education.
JA-SIG Announces Membership Program
JA-SIG announced a new membership program and benefits designed to attract worldwide educational institutions and commercial supporters of its enterprise open source applications...
To Our Friends at Virginia Tech
As many of you know, Virginia Tech has been an active, vital participant in JA-SIG for a long time. On behalf of the JA-SIG community, we would like to extend our sympathy and condolences to our friends at Virginia Tech and to all the Virginia Tech students, faculty, staff, and families during this difficult time. Sincerely, The JA-SIG Board of Directors
CAS 3.0.5 RC1 Released
We're pleased to announce the availability of the CAS 3.0.5 RC1 release. This release includes many new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
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JA-SIG Home Conferences Discussion Lists Clearinghouse Membership Governance Wiki uPortal HyperContent CAS		Upcoming Spring 2008 Conference April 27th through 30th in St. Paul, Minnesota. Registration now open. Subscribe to the conference blog, The Community Source Way, for news and updates about the event. Join the Conference social networking site at http://ja-sigspring08.crowdvine.com/ to start networking now. Participants and presentations from: JA-SIG CAS uPortal Fluid Sakai Kuali DSpace Fedora repository Internet2 Purpose of the JA-SIG - to provide education and research in the applied use of open technology architectures and systems in higher education - to develop a global academic community of interest among practitioners and institutions and to inform that community of international activities, projects, and opportunities in the field of open technology architectures and systems in higher education - to educate by coaching, collaborating, and sharing good practices, and disseminating the results of innovative approaches in this field - to create, through its various activities including conferences, projects, and outreach, an atmosphere of trust, goodwill, and mutual respect amongst all participants Activities The JA-SIG membership is engaged in several activities. The first is the sponsorship of an annual conference. The conference, having two technical and one management track, formally held semi-annually is now a multi-day community source event. A second activity, the JA-SIG Clearinghouse, is a place on the Web to facilitate the sharing of community source components. The third JA-SIG activity is the development of a free, open source, open standard portal for higher education: uPortal. Our Supporters JA-SIG wishes to acknowledge the generous support of: Sun Microsystems Unicon Announces Commercial Support for uPortal 3 Phoenix, AZ - Unicon, Inc <http://www.unicon.net/opensource>., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals,<http://www.unicon.net/opensource>applications, and top end technology consulting for higher education, today announced commercial support for uPortal 3, the next generation community source portal platform designed by and for the higher education community. Johns Hopkins University Selects Unicon to Develop uPortal Mobile for Campus & Students Phoenix, AZ - April 21, 2008 - Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals, applications, and top end technology consulting for higher education, today announced it has been chosen by Johns Hopkins University to develop and deploy its new mobility theme based on uPortal, the open source enterprise portal for higher ed. The mobility theme is designed to enhance the functionality and content of its campus portal to make it accessible by mobile devices such as cell phones, SmartPhones, and PDAs and more useful to students, faculty, and administrators. The mobility development work and testing is scheduled to be completed and go live in the summer of 2008. Johns Hopkins University plans to donate the mobile development work back to the uPortal open source community. JA-SIG Releases uPortal 3.0.0-GA for Production Use The JA-SIG uPortal Project Steering Committee is extremely pleased to announce the release of uPortal 3.0, the next generation community source portal platform designed by and for the higher education community. The new release marks a major, evolutionary step forward for the award-winning project. Version 3.0 has brought the rock solid, high performing uPortal 2.x product to a new level, incorporating current best practices in enterprise Java. The entire uPortal community can unite on one branch moving forward, and it is now possible for everyone to migrate to the latest version of uPortal when appropriate for their institution. uPortal 3.0 builds upon the flexibility and reliability of uPortal 2.x while providing an attractive look and feel using improved JavaScript libraries, even more robust portlet support, a modern build environment, use of leading Java frameworks (Spring), and other enhancements, bringing the larger deployments and performance already achieved in uPortal 2 in easier reach of more uPortal adopters. St. Paul, MN April JA-SIG Conference Seminars Announced JA-SIG is pleased to announce selection of pre- and post-conference seminars about open source software for the Spring 2008 JA-SIG conference to be held in St. Paul, Minnesota. Pre-conference events to be held on Sunday April 27th include hands-on introductions to Kuali Financials, Spring PortletMVC, Fedora repository, and CAS; tutorials on uPortal and DSpace upgrading; and seminars on JavaScript and identity management. Post-conference events on Wednesday April 30th include introductions to Kuali Rice, uPortal, and Sakai, as well as a half-day Bar Camp. Oh, and there will be a whole conference in between these seminars: more on that to come. In the meantime, sign up now to reserve your place in your seminars of choice. http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/ Pearson Education Reaches Over One Million Students With JA-SIG's uPortal Educational Publisher Pearson Education's CourseCompass Product Provides Course Content to a Growing Community through JA-SIG's Award-Winning Portal JA-SIG Announces Immediate Availability of uPortal 2.6 and Central Authentication Service (CAS) 3.1 Award-winning Higher Education Portal and Central Authentication Service Offer Major New Features uPortal Receives Prestigious EDUCAUSE Catalyst Award Princeton, NJ – June 25, 2007 – JA-SIG, the non-profit organization responsible for the uPortal community source enterprise portal, today announced that uPortal has received the prestigious EDUCAUSE Catalyst Award for its innovations and initiatives centered on information technologies that provide groundbreaking solutions to major challenges in higher education. JA-SIG Announces Membership Program JA-SIG announced a new membership program and benefits designed to attract worldwide educational institutions and commercial supporters of its enterprise open source applications... To Our Friends at Virginia Tech As many of you know, Virginia Tech has been an active, vital participant in JA-SIG for a long time. On behalf of the JA-SIG community, we would like to extend our sympathy and condolences to our friends at Virginia Tech and to all the Virginia Tech students, faculty, staff, and families during this difficult time. Sincerely, The JA-SIG Board of Directors CAS 3.0.5 RC1 Released We're pleased to announce the availability of the CAS 3.0.5 RC1 release. This release includes many new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Visit the news archive Get news as RSS JA-SIG News Policy