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:

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.

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.

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

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