[uportal-dev] Jasig Executive Officers
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: bedework-steering-commit...@lists.jasig.org cas-steering-commit...@lists.jasig.org uportal-steering-commit...@lists.jasig.org -- Jonathan Markow Executive Director | Jasig * Open for Higher Education* New York, NY 646-867-3137 www.jasig.org -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Develop Identity Strategies for Software Projects at Advance CAMP
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. -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] Recent filtering updates
Do we need uportal-user feedback on these questions too? -Jonathan On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Jen Bourey jennifer.bou...@gmail.comwrote: 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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: jjmar...@jasig.org To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re:[uportal-dev] JASIG/ESUP Grouper
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 arnaud.de...@univ-cezanne.fr 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 -- Arnaud Deman 04 91 28 85 25 DSI - Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III Avenue Escadrille Normandie-Niemen 13397 MARSEILLE CEDEX 20 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Two New Project
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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] Important Weather Portlet Information
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 edomazli...@tacomacc.eduwrote: 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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: edomazli...@tacomacc.edu To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: jjmar...@jasig.org To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Volunteers Wanted for 2011 Jasig Conference Program Committee
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 -- Jonathan Markow Executive Director | Jasig * Open for Higher Education* New York, NY 646-867-3137 www.jasig.org -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Update on uPortal Documentation - July, 2010
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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Registration is Open for the Jasig Fall Unconference!
*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 pagehttps://wiki.jasig.org/display/JCON/Fall+2010+Unconference+Participants 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 Informationhttps://wiki.jasig.org/display/JCON/Fall+2010+Unconference+Hotel+Information 4. Make travel arrangements. Tips are available here: Fall 2010 Unconference Travel Informationhttps://wiki.jasig.org/display/JCON/Fall+2010+Unconference+Travel+Information See you at the Jasig Unconference, The Fall 2010 Unconference Organizers -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Vote for Contegix!
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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Jasig 2010 Elections - Deadlines Extended
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 jjmar...@jasig.org 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 wikihttps://wiki.jasig.org/display/JSG/Jasig+Members . 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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings
[uportal-dev] Jasig 2010 Elections - Call for Nominations
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 wikihttps://wiki.jasig.org/display/JSG/Jasig+Members . 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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] The Jasig Fall 2010 Unconference is Coming!
*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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] Documentation Steward
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 ajanov...@gmail.comwrote: 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. -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: jjmar...@jasig.org To unsubscribe, change
Re: [uportal-dev] grouper integration
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 mchy...@isc.upenn.eduwrote: 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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: jjmar...@jasig.org To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by *MailScanner* http://www.mailscanner.info/*, and is believed to be clean. * *___* Alain Mayeur * Directeur Direction des Systèmes d'Information Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis Le Mont Houy 59313 Valenciennes cedex 9 Tél: 03-27-51-11-85 * -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-devclip_image002.png
[uportal-dev] Jasig 2010 Camtasia Relay Screencasts Are Online
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 -- Jonathan Markow Executive Director | Jasig * Open for Higher Education* New York, NY 646-867-3137 www.jasig.org -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] April 15th uPortal Community Call - More Information
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 -- Jonathan Markow Executive Director | Jasig * Open for Higher Education* New York, NY 646-867-3137 www.jasig.org On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Jonathan Markow jjmar...@jasig.org 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 -- Jonathan Markow Executive Director | Jasig * Open for Higher Education* New York, NY 646-867-3137 www.jasig.org -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] April uPortal Community Call - April 15
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 -- Jonathan Markow Executive Director | Jasig * Open for Higher Education* New York, NY 646-867-3137 www.jasig.org -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] New Jasig Community of Practice: .NET, Open Source, and Higher Education
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 -- Jonathan Markow Executive Director | Jasig * Open for Higher Education* New York, NY 646-867-3137 www.jasig.org -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Reminder: February uPortal Community Call Tomorrow
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 -- Jonathan Markow Executive Director | Jasig * Open for Higher Education* New York, NY 646-867-3137 www.jasig.org On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Jonathan Markow jjmar...@jasig.org 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) -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Jasig 2010 Hotel Discount Extended
*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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] February uPortal Community Call
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) -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Jasig Software Licensing Information for Institutions
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 -- Jonathan Markow Executive Director | Jasig * Open for Higher Education* New York, NY 646-867-3137 www.jasig.org -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Fwd: [cas-user] HA + Inspektr / ClearPass + OWA
FYI. Are there plans to apply the ClearPass related patch to any earlier uP
releases?
Thanks,
Jonathan
-- Forwarded message --
From: Scott Battaglia scott.battag...@gmail.com
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 curt.gar...@gmail.comwrote:
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
fwestanque...@fc.ul.pt 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
appSettings
add key=CasOwa.ClearPassUrl
value=https://{cashost}/cas/clearPass/
add key=CasOwa.OwaUrl
value=https://{owahost}/owa/
add key=CasOwa.skipOwaUrlCertificateValidation
value=true /
/appSettings
DotNetCasClient Config
casClientConfig
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.
wgt...@gmail.com 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
fwestanque...@fc.ul.pt 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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Fwd: [uportal-dev] Fwd: [cas-user] HA + Inspektr / ClearPass + OWA
I'm cross-posting this response from the uportal-dev list for the benefit of
cas-user subscribers...
-Jonathan
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From: Jennifer Bourey jennifer.bou...@gmail.com
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 scott.battag...@gmail.com
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 curt.gar...@gmail.comwrote:
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
fwestanque...@fc.ul.pt 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
appSettings
add key=CasOwa.ClearPassUrl
value=https://{cashost}/cas/clearPass;https://%7Bcashost%7D/cas/clearPass
/
add key=CasOwa.OwaUrl
value=https://{owahost}/owa; https://%7Bowahost%7D/owa/
add key=CasOwa.skipOwaUrlCertificateValidation
value=true /
/appSettings
DotNetCasClient Config
casClientConfig
casServerLoginUrl=https://{cashost}/cascp/login;https://%7Bcashost%7D/cascp/login
serverName=https://{owahost};
https://%7Bowahost%7DsecureUriRegex=(?i)/auth
casServerUrlPrefix=https://{cashost}/cas/;https://%7Bcashost%7D/cas/
redirectAfterValidation=false useSession=false
gateway=false renew=false
ticketValidatorName=Cas20 ticketTimeTolerance=5000
singleSignOut=false
proxyGrantingTicketReceptor=true
proxyCallbackUrl=https://{owahost}/coa/proxyCallback;https://%7Bowahost%7D/coa/proxyCallback
[uportal-dev] UPDATE: Jasig Server Restored
The Jasig server is back up as of 9pm EST. All services are restored. -- Jonathan Markow Executive Director | Jasig * Open for Higher Education* New York, NY 646-867-3137 www.jasig.org On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Jonathan Markow jjmar...@jasig.org 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. -- Jonathan Markow Executive Director | Jasig * Open for Higher Education* New York, NY 646-867-3137 www.jasig.org On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Jonathan Markow jjmar...@jasig.orgwrote: 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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Reminder: Hotel Deadline for Jasig Unconference!
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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Portlet Release Manager
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. -- Jonathan Markow Executive Director -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Jasig Election Results
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 -- Jonathan Markow Executive Director -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re:[uportal-dev] University of The Gambia Need a Helping hand
I responded to Pa Sara Drammeh on another list. -Jonathan On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Pa Sara Drammeh psdram...@utg.edu.gmwrote: 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 e-mail%3ai...@utg.edu.gm Web: www.utg.edu.gm -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] New Jasig Licensing Policy - Request for Comment
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. -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Jasig Fall 2009 Unconference
*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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re:[uportal-dev] JASIG Call for Nominations Extension
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 -- Jonathan Markow Executive Director 2009/6/18 David Koehler d...@cornell.edu 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 -- David W. Koehler Director Information Systems Cornell Information Technologies Cornell University 120 Maple Ave Ithaca, NY 14850-4902 [Phone] 607 255-2245 [Fax] 607 255-0410 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Developer Representatives to Project Steering Committees
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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] uPortal 3.1 Technical Webinar with Eric Dalquist
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 http://www.unicon.net/node/1234 *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 registerhttp://www.unicon.net/contact?cat=9subject=uPortal%203.1%20Webinar%2005/21/09 . -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] Working on a new Administrative Portlet for uPortal
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 carrow...@unicon.netwrote: uPortal developers, Unicon's Cooperative Development Team is working on a new Portlet Administration portlet. This work is to address UP-2047http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/browse/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 workhttp://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/Portlet+Administration+Portletand 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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: jjmar...@ja-sig.org To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [jasig-ue] [uportal-dev] Copying a Skin in 3.1
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 jjmar...@gmail.com 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 g...@unicon.net 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:
Jacob
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.
/Jacob
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 server for 3rd party resources
We are minifying and caching CSS and JS files
And as a portal (which is pointing to applications and content of various
nature from varied sources), we take the approach that we are not the only
player in the game, so
We must practice namespacing
I must admit, adding the namespace to all CSS selectors in the skin does
add to the effort of maintenance, but I find that effort sufferable for the
benefits. I have created a new skin from the 3.1 uportal3 skin a couple of
times already, and I find that doing a find and replace in the CSS files
takes less than 5 minutes.
I re-quote Jacob:
Jacob
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
Re: [uportal-dev] Reminder: JASIG UK Meeting April 22
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 jjmar...@ja-sig.orgwrote: 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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: speakwitht...@gmail.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: jjmar...@ja-sig.org To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Reminder: JASIG UK Meeting April 22
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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] Proposing Matt Polizzotti for commit access
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 jennifer.bou...@gmail.comwrote: 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 jennifer.bou...@gmail.comwrote: 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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: jjmar...@gmail.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] uPortal 3.1.0-M2 Release Announcement
Thanks much Eric! -Jonathan On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Eric Dalquist eric.dalqu...@doit.wisc.edu 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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] For Hire: Confluence Tuning Assistance
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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Volunteers Wanted for JASIG Conference Program Committee!
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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Reserve Your JASIG Unconference Hotel Room This week!
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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Fwd: [uportal-user] Intermittent dlm problem
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: ?xml version=1.0? !-- $Header$ -- managedLayoutFragments xmlns:dlm=http://org.jasig.portal.layout.dlm.config dlm:property name='defaultLayoutOwner' value='fragmentTemplate'/ !-- dlm:property name='layoutDecorator' value='someClass'/ -- !-- Controls clearing of dlm fragment cache. This allows changes made to layout owners to be reflected once the cache has been updated. Specified in minutes. -- dlm:property name='org.jasig.portal.layout.dlm.RDBMDistributedLayoutStore.fragment_cache_refresh' value=5/ dlm:fragment name='Guests' ownerID='guest-lo' precedence='20' dlm:audience evaluatorFactory='org.jasig.portal.layout.dlm.providers.GuestUserEvaluatorFactory'/ /dlm:fragment dlm:fragment name='All Left' ownerID='left-all-lo' precedence='100' dlm:audience evaluatorFactory='org.jasig.portal.layout.dlm.providers.GroupMembershipEvaluatorFactory' paren mode=AND attribute mode='deepMemberOf' name='Everyone'/ paren mode=NOT attribute mode='deepMemberOf' name='Guests'/ /paren /paren /dlm:audience /dlm:fragment dlm:fragment name='Student' ownerID='stu-lo' precedence='90' dlm:audience evaluatorFactory='org.jasig.portal.layout.dlm.providers.GroupMembershipEvaluatorFactory' paren mode=AND attribute mode='deepMemberOf' name='Students'/ paren mode=NOT attribute mode='deepMemberOf' name='Guests'/ /paren /paren /dlm:audience /dlm:fragment dlm:fragment name='Employee' ownerID='emp-lo' precedence='80' dlm:audience evaluatorFactory='org.jasig.portal.layout.dlm.providers.GroupMembershipEvaluatorFactory' paren mode=AND attribute mode='deepMemberOf' name='Employee'/ paren mode=NOT attribute mode='deepMemberOf' name='Guests'/ /paren /paren /dlm:audience /dlm:fragment dlm:fragment name='All Right' ownerID='right-all-lo' precedence='70' dlm:audience evaluatorFactory='org.jasig.portal.layout.dlm.providers.GroupMembershipEvaluatorFactory' paren mode=AND attribute mode='deepMemberOf' name='Everyone'/ paren mode=NOT attribute mode='deepMemberOf' name='Guests'/ /paren /paren /dlm:audience /dlm:fragment /managedLayoutFragments Thanks in advance. -- Bob -- You are currently subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-user -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Lightning Talks at the JASIG Unconference
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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] Should we rename / recreate the uPortal lists?
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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] uPortal 3 Implementation Workshop
Are you planning on attending the JASIG Unconference in Madison, WI this October: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/8hLP ? 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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Sun $1M Open Source Innovation Grant
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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] uPortal 3.0 Adoption Efforts
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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Technical Authors: A Book on uPortal? (was Fwd: A book on Backtrack?)
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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Program Schedule for Higher Education Solutions: The Commmunity Source Way!
*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/.http://ja-sigspring08.crowdvine.com/ We hope to see you there! The JA-SIG Spring 2008 Program Committee -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way! April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html 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/ You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] uPortal 3.0.0-RC2 Release Announcement
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^ http://www.uportal.org/release/allReleases.html 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=10020issuetype=1Next%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 -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way! April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way! April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] Post Conference Developers Meeting
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. -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way! April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] seminars for April JA-SIG conferene
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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way
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. -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] uPortal 2.6.1 GA now available
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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Plain Vanilla Screenshot, Anyone?
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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] Fwd: [jasig-board] Coverity adds Java support
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 -- Forwarded message -- 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 -- You are currently subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/board -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
[uportal-dev] JA-SIG Unconference - Register Now
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 http://univinn.rutgers.edu/ , 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 http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JCON/Winter+2007+UnConference+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 ownhttp://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JCON/Winter+2007+UnConference+Activity+Ideas . 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 wikihttp://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. 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* -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re:[uportal-dev] JA-SIG Election Results
Congratulations to our newly elected board directors and project steering committee (PSC) members. Concurrent with the election of the threestakeholder 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 -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
Re: [uportal-dev] where to document the uPortal 3 efforts in the wiki
+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. -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
