The theme for the Spring 2008 Conference in St. Paul, Minnesota will be, "Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way".
The program has four tracks:
The content will be delivered in a
variety of formats including: half-day seminars, one-hour lecture style
presentations, roundtable discussions, informal "birds of a feather" discussions
and show-and-tell style poster session demonstrations. For more details on the individual
sessions included in the JA-SIG Program Schedule, click on the title of the
presentation.
The following schedule is subject to change pending confirmation from all
speakers.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
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| 7:30AM-7:30PM |
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Registration
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| 8:30AM-12:00PM |
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Half day Seminar
Introduction to the Fedora Repository
Chris Wilper
Cornell University
Daniel Davis
Cornell University
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Half day Seminar
Spring Portlet MVC - Intro
Chris Holdorph
Unicon, Inc
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Half day Seminar
Installing, Configuring, and Customizing the Kuali Financial System
Ailish Byrne
Indiana University
Jonathan Keller
University of California at Davis
Jerry Neal
Indiana University
James Smith
University of Arizona
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Half day Seminar
Upgrading Your DSpace Installation from 1.4 to 1.5
Mark Diggory
Massachusetts Institute of Technologies
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Half day Seminar
Implementing CAS: From Download to Deployment
Adam Rybicki
Unicon, Inc
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| 12:00PM-1:00PM |
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Lunch for Seminar Attendees
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| 1:00PM-4:30PM |
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Half day Seminar
Customizing DSpace using Manakin - Your Site, Your Design
Mark Diggory
Massachusetts Institute of Technologies
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Half day Seminar
Spring Portlet MVC - Advanced
John Lewis
Unicon, Inc
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Half day Seminar
Introduction to Identity for Developers
Tom Barton
University of Chicago
Scott Cantor
Ohio State University
Patrick Michaud
University of Washington
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Half day Seminar
uPortal Migration - Juggling Environments and Software Upgrades
Andrew Wills
Unicon, Inc.
Eric Dalquist
University of Wisconsin
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Half day Seminar
Writing Fearless Javascript for Portlets, Widgets, and Portals
Colin Clark
University of Toronto
Eli Cochran
UC Berkeley
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| 5:30PM-6:00PM |
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Orientation
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| 6:00PM-8:00PM |
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Welcome Reception
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Monday, April 28, 2008
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| 7:00AM-6:00PM |
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Registration
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| 7:30AM-8:30AM |
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Breakfast
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| 8:30AM-9:45AM |
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Opening Keynote Presentation
Community Source in Higher Education: Leaders' Panel
Jonathan Markow
JA-SIG
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| 9:45AM-10:15AM |
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Refreshment Break
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| 10:15AM-11:15AM |
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Multiple Audiences/General Information
uPortal 3: What's New
Eric Dalquist
UW-Madison
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Integration and Deployment
Using Enterprise Group Management to Enable Unified Application Access
Klara Jelinkova
Duke University
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Design and Development
Using Fedora to Manage Student Documents
Christopher Brown
Cornell University
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Community Source Management/Governance
CIO Forum
Jonathan Markow
JA-SIG
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| 11:30AM-12:30PM |
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Integration and Deployment
Sakai and uPortal Integration Options
Cris Holdorph
Unicon, Inc.
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Birds of a Feather
Semantic Web Activities in Higher Education
Jon Corson-Rikert
Cornell University
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Multiple Audiences/General Information
JA-SIG CAS Overview
Adam Rybicki
Unicon, Inc.
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Design and Development
Java Portlet 2.0 (JSR 286)
John Lewis
Unicon, Inc.
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Community Source Management/Governance
Engaging the User Community
Michele Kimpton
DSpace Foundation
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| 12:30PM-2:00PM |
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Lunch
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| 2:00PM-3:00PM |
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Community Source Management/Governance
Open Source Mission: Moving Open Source from the Machine Room to the Mission Statement
Nate Angell
rSmart
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Integration and Deployment
Supersize Me: NITLE's Community-driven DSpace Initiative for Small Colleges
Eric Jansson
NITLE
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Birds of a Feather
Portal-LMS Integration
Jason Shao
CampusEAI Consortium
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Design and Development
Securing Portlets with Spring Security
John Lewis
Unicon, Inc.
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Integration and Deployment
How We Integrated Fedora into Ruby On Rails, and How You Can Use It
Matt Zumwalt
MediaShelf
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| 3:00PM-3:30PM |
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Refreshment Break
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| 3:30PM-4:30PM |
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Design and Development
Upgrading uPortal: My.JohnsHopkins
Andrew Wills
Unicon, Inc.
Chris Doyle
Johns Hopkins University
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Integration and Deployment
Implementing the Open Source Portfolio Tools in Sakai
Janice Smith
The rSmart Group
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Birds of a Feather
Developing an Open Source, SOA model of Open Library Systems for the modern Academic Library
John Little
Duke University
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Community Source Management/Governance
Community Source Business Models: The Commercial Perspective
Jonathan Markow
JA-SIG
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Multiple Audiences/General Information
The Bedework Enterprise Calendar Project
Michael Douglass
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Arlen Johnson
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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| 4:45PM-5:45PM |
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Design and Development
Developing uPortal Themes from Scratch
Erik Olsson
University of California, Irvine
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Design and Development
SOA and event-driven architecture in the Swedish Ladok system using open standards
Mikael Berglund
Umeå University
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Birds of a Feather
Managing Diverse & Complex uPortal Deployments with Cernunnos
Andrew Wills
Unicon, Inc.
Andy Gherna
University of Illinois
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Multiple Audiences/General Information
Google Web Toolkit
Wil Johnson
Florida State University
Garey Taylor
University of Maryland College Park
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Community Source Management/Governance
Practical approaches to acceptance and adoption of Kuali
Mike Zackrison
rSmart
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| 6:00PM-8:00PM |
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Poster Sessions
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Reception
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| 8:00PM-10:00PM |
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Dinner on your own
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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| 7:00AM-6:00PM |
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Registration
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| 7:30AM-8:30AM |
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Breakfast
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| 8:30AM-9:45AM |
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General Session
Moving Community Source to the Mainstream: Overcoming the Obstacles to Adoption
Ira Fuchs
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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| 9:45AM-10:15AM |
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Refreshment Break
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| 10:15AM-11:15AM |
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Integration and Deployment
Integrating Peoplesoft Enterprise Campus Solutions with Sakai
Cris Holdorph
Unicon, Inc.
Michael Feldstein
Oracle Corporation
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Design and Development
uPortal 3 Theme and Skin: An Overview
Gary Thompson
Unicon
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Community Source Management/Governance
Building Bedework - Learning to lead a higher ed open source project
Gary Schwartz
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Birds of a Feather
Social Learning Enterprise Platforms
Stuart Sim
CommonNeed
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Multiple Audiences/General Information
Introducing the JISC e-Framework Programme
Alex Hawker
University of Bristol
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| 11:30AM-12:30PM |
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Birds of a Feather
Kuali Student User Experience
Allison Bloodworth
University of California, Berkeley
Paul Zablosky
University of British Columbia
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Integration and Deployment
Personal repository space via the personal portal
Chris Awre
University of Hull
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Community Source Management/Governance
JA-SIG Membership Meeting
Jonathan Markow
JA-SIG
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Community Source Management/Governance
If We Build it, Will They Come? - Part Deux!
George Kozak
Cornell University
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Design and Development
uPortal 3 Theme and Skin: Advanced/technical
Gary Thompson
Unicon
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| 12:30PM-2:00PM |
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Lunch
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| 2:00PM-3:00PM |
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Birds of a Feather
Introducing the JISC e-Framework Programme
Alex Hawker
University of Bristol
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Multiple Audiences/General Information
The Fluid Project: A Open Community for Inclusive Design
Colin Clark
University of Toronto
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Design and Development
Developing with the JCR (JSR 170, JSR 283)
Lennard Fuller
Unicon Inc
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Design and Development
uPortal 3: Where did everything go?
Eric Dalquist
UW-Madison
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Integration and Deployment
Shibboleth 2.0: An Overview for Developers
Scott Cantor
The Ohio State University
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| 3:00PM-3:30PM |
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Refreshment Break
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| 3:30PM-4:30PM |
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Design and Development
CAS-NG: Adding Access Control to CAS
Howard Gilbert
Yale University
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Multiple Audiences/General Information
Open Source Long Term Preservation Archives
Keith Rajecki
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Integration and Deployment
Leveraging DLM Processors
Tim Carroll
University of Illinois
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Birds of a Feather
How we created a REST API for Fedora, Why we did it, and What it gives you.
Matt Zumwalt
MediaShelf
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Community Source Management/Governance
Spreading Community Thick: Open Source Communities of Practice
Nate Angell
rSmart
Allison Bloodworth
University of California, Berkeley
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| 4:45PM-5:45PM |
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Design and Development
Open Source Work Flow Implementation
Darren Kraker
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Ryan Matteson
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
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Multiple Audiences/General Information
Introducing EclipseLink
Doug Clarke
Oracle Canada
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Design and Development
Creating a Production Quality Rice Application with SJDC
Anthony Potts
rSmart
Chris Kirschenman
San Joaquin Delta College
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Birds of a Feather
Yale "remember me" Cookie Based Login
Jennifer Bourey
Yale University
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Integration and Deployment
How Pearson is Using uPortal to Support Global Online Learning and Communities
Mary Ann Perry
Pearson Education
Leonard Fuller
Unicon, Inc
Peter Chiang
Pearson Education
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| 6:30PM-10:00PM |
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Group Dinner
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
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| 7:00AM-12:00PM |
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Registration
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| 7:30AM-8:30AM |
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Breakfast
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| 8:30AM-9:30AM |
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Community Source Management/Governance
Finding the balance between centralized code management and completely distributed volunteer development in community source software
John Fereira
Cornell University
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Birds of a Feather
JA-SIG Contributions and Project Incubation Process
Susan Bramhall
Yale University
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Design and Development
Portlet Panel
Parker Grimes
Southern Utah University
Eric Dalquist
University of Wisconsin
Jennifer Bourey
Yale University
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Design and Development
JSR-168 and Sakai
Jason Shao
CampusEAI Consortium
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Integration and Deployment
Functionality Mashup - Evolving to the Next Generation of Learning Management Systems
Charles Severance
University of Michigan
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| 9:45AM-10:15AM |
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Refreshment Break
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| 9:45AM-10:45AM |
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Multiple Audiences/General Information
How Virtualization Improves Software Development
Jason Shao
CampusEAI Consortium
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Integration and Deployment
Implementing Sakai and CAS
Ben Stoutenburgh
Marist College
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Community Source Management/Governance
Open Source Portlet Incubation
Jennifer Bourey
Yale University
Parker Grimes
Southern Utah University
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Integration and Deployment
Open Source Load Generator for Massive Scale
Stuart Sim
CommonNeed
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| 11:15AM-12:30PM |
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Closing Keynote Presentation
Ubiquity, Interdependence, and the Age of Collaboration
Kaye Howe
National Science Digital Library
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| 12:30PM-1:30PM |
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Lunch for Seminar Attendees
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| 1:30PM-5:00PM |
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Barcamp or uCamp
BarCamp Spring 2008
William Tompson
Rutgers University
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Half day Seminar
Introduction to Sakai
Anthony Whyte
University of Michigan
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Half day Seminar
Installing, Configuring, and Customizing uPortal
Andrew Petro
Unicon, Inc
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Half day Seminar
Implementing Kuali Rice
Eric Westfall
Indiana University
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Barcamp or uCamp
uCamp
Paul Zablosky
University of British Columbia
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