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  • DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons Form Working Collaboration
    Washington, D.C.—July 29, 2008 Today two of the largest providers of open source software for managing and providing access to digital content, the DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons, announced plans to combine strengths to work on joint initiatives that will more closely align their organizations’ goals and better serve both open source repository communities in the coming months.

  • Sun Sponsors Open Source Community $1M Innovation Award
    SANTA CLARA, CA January 29, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA), and the GlassFish, NetBeans, OpenJDK, OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris and OpenSPARC communities today announced details on how developers and community members can participate in the individual Open Source Community Innovation Awards programs. Each community, as outlined below, will have its own program rules and judging criteria.

  • Register for the 9th Sakai Conference in Paris
    The 2008 Sakai Community Conference will be held in Paris, France from Tuesday July 1 through Thursday July 3, with pre-conference sessions and activities on Monday, 30 June.

  • Unicon Announces Commercial Support for uPortal 3
    *Phoenix, AZ - *Unicon, Inc <http://www.unicon.net/opensource>., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals,<http://www.unicon.net/opensource>applications, and top end technology consulting for higher education, today announced commercial support for uPortal 3, the next generation community source portal platform designed by and for the higher education community.

  • Johns Hopkins University Selects Unicon to Develop uPortal Mobile for Campus & Students
    Phoenix, AZ - April 21, 2008 - Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals, applications, and top end technology consulting for higher education, today announced it has been chosen by Johns Hopkins University to develop and deploy its new mobility theme based on uPortal, the open source enterprise portal for higher ed. The mobility theme is designed to enhance the functionality and content of its campus portal to make it accessible by mobile devices such as cell phones, SmartPhones, and PDAs and more useful to students, faculty, and administrators. The mobility development work and testing is scheduled to be completed and go live in the summer of 2008. Johns Hopkins University plans to donate the mobile development work back to the uPortal open source community.

  • JA-SIG Releases uPortal 3.0.0-GA for Production Use
    The JA-SIG uPortal Project Steering Committee is extremely pleased to announce the release of uPortal 3.0, the next generation community source portal platform designed by and for the higher education community. The new release marks a major, evolutionary step forward for the award-winning project. Version 3.0 has brought the rock solid, high performing uPortal 2.x product to a new level, incorporating current best practices in enterprise Java. The entire uPortal community can unite on one branch moving forward, and it is now possible for everyone to migrate to the latest version of uPortal when appropriate for their institution. uPortal 3.0 builds upon the flexibility and reliability of uPortal 2.x while providing an attractive look and feel using improved JavaScript libraries, even more robust portlet support, a modern build environment, use of leading Java frameworks (Spring), and other enhancements, bringing the larger deployments and performance already achieved in uPortal 2 in easier reach of more uPortal adopters.

  • JA-SIG server outage March 15th through 16th
    Due to scheduled down time, all sites on www.ja-sig.org, developer.ja-sig.org and www.uportal.org will be unavailable from 6pm Eastern Time, Saturday March 15th through 10pm Eastern Time, Sunday March 16th. This means that the wiki, issue tracker, web site, source, and downloads will be unavailable during this time frame. The mailing lists will be unaffected. If you have any questions or concerns about the outage please contact infrastructure@ja-sig.org Sorry for any inconvenience that may occur from this downtime.

  • Unicon Selects Greg Baker to Head Higher Ed Professional Services Division
    Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals, applications, and top end technology consulting for higher education, today announced that Gregory Baker has joined the company to accelerate the growth of its Higher Education Professional Services division.

  • Kuali Days VI - Save the date!
    Kuali Days VI is scheduled for May 13 and 14, 2008 at the Westin Chicago Northwest. We will have a full agenda of content on Kuali Financial System (multiple tracks), Kuali Research Administration, Kuali Student System, and Kuali Rice (infrastructure and services like workflow).

  • 170 Participants Attend Fifth ESUP-Portail Conference in Paris
    One hundred and seventy participants recently attended the "ESUP-Days" conference in Paris (Feb. 5, 2008) organized by the ESUP-Portail consortium.

  • St. Paul, MN April JA-SIG Conference Seminars Announced
    JA-SIG is pleased to announce selection of pre- and post-conference seminars about open source software for the Spring 2008 JA-SIG conference to be held in St. Paul, Minnesota. Pre-conference events to be held on Sunday April 27th include hands-on introductions to Kuali Financials, Spring PortletMVC, Fedora repository, and CAS; tutorials on uPortal and DSpace upgrading; and seminars on JavaScript and identity management. Post-conference events on Wednesday April 30th include introductions to Kuali Rice, uPortal, and Sakai, as well as a half-day Bar Camp. Oh, and there will be a whole conference in between these seminars: more on that to come. In the meantime, sign up now to reserve your place in your seminars of choice. http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/

  • JA-SIG Launches Portlet Development and Sharing Discussion Lists
    Expanding efforts to facilitate development and sharing of open source portlets in support of higher education, JA-SIG has launched two new email lists for collaboration in this domain. http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/oIRc

  • 2008 JA-SIG Spring Conference: St. Paul, MN, April 27-30
    Please join us for the upcoming 2008 JA-SIG Spring Conference in St. Paul, Minnesota. The conference is being held April 27-30, 2007. Registration and call for proposals will be coming soon!

  • Kuali Foundation Seeks Executive Director
    The Kuali Foundation seeks an experienced, creative, mature, visionary leader to fill the position of Executive Director (ED). The Kuali Foundation is a non-profit organization that supports multiple community source administrative systems projects of its members.

  • Central Authentication Service (CAS) 3.1.1 Final Release Available
    We're pleased to announce the latest CAS Server release, version 3.1.1. This release contains a number of bug fixes, improvements, and new features.

  • Pearson Education Reaches Over One Million Students With JA-SIG's uPortal
    Educational Publisher Pearson Education's CourseCompass Product Provides Course Content to a Growing Community through JA-SIG's Award-Winning Portal

  • The JA-SIG 2007 Unconference is Coming!
    Join us November 12th and 13th at Rutgers University for the first JA-SIG Unconference. Meet with your peers and the uPortal, CAS, JSR-168, Fluid, SpringMVC experts (among others!)

  • CampusEAI Offers uPortal Training at University of Dundee (Scotland)
    CampusEAI's 5-Day, Training Course will cover uPortal and CAS topics.

  • Unicon Announces September uPortal Administration Training at Sacramento State University
    Unicon announced it will hold a three-day uPortal Administration Training at Sacramento State University (www.csus.edu) this September 25-27, 2007.

  • JA-SIG Announces Immediate Availability of uPortal 2.6 and Central Authentication Service (CAS) 3.1
    Award-winning Higher Education Portal and Central Authentication Service Offer Major New Features

  • ESUP-Days 4: 130 Participants Attend Fourth ESUP-Portail Conference in Paris
    One hundred and thirty participants recently attended the "ESUP-Days" conference in Paris (July 5, 2007) organized by the ESUP-Portail consortium.

  • SunGard HE Posts Statement Regarding Luminis Portal Strategy
    SunGard HE affirms ongoing support for uPortal while adding Oracle Portal as a future choice for Luminis clients

  • uPortal Receives Prestigious EDUCAUSE Catalyst Award
    Princeton, NJ – June 25, 2007 – JA-SIG, the non-profit organization responsible for the uPortal community source enterprise portal, today announced that uPortal has received the prestigious EDUCAUSE Catalyst Award for its innovations and initiatives centered on information technologies that provide groundbreaking solutions to major challenges in higher education.

  • uPortal 2.5.3.1 now available
    uPortal 2.5.3.1, a security patch release consisting of uPortal 2.5.3 with a critical security fix applied, is now available.

  • To Our Friends at Virginia Tech
    As many of you know, Virginia Tech has been an active, vital participant in JA-SIG for a long time. On behalf of the JA-SIG community, we would like to extend our sympathy and condolences to our friends at Virginia Tech and to all the Virginia Tech students, faculty, staff, and families during this difficult time. Sincerely, The JA-SIG Board of Directors

  • uPortal 3 Developer Workshop Scheduled in April
    Time will be set aside on the Wednesday of the spring Developers Meeting (4/25) for uPortal 3 developer training and mentoring. We encourage anyone interested in learning more about uPortal framework development or beginning a uPortal 3 implementation to attend. Training will be conducted by some of the core uP3 developers.

  • Johns Hopkins University Sponsors uPortal Developer Conference
    Johns Hopkins University today announced its sponsorship of the Spring JA-SIG uPortal Developers Conference. This spring's conference will be held Monday and Tuesday, April 23 and 24, 2007, 9 AM to 4 PM each day. Developers are encouraged to stay for the remainder of the week (April 25 - 27) for an extended coding session.

  • Third ESUP-Portail Conference Draws 150 Participants in Paris
    One hundred and fifty participants recently attended the "ESUP-Days" conference in Paris (Jan. 26, 2007) organized by the ESUP-Portail consortium (http://www.esup-portail.org).

  • Portlets 2007 Conference Registration Open
    Registration for the Portlets 2007 conference hosted at the University of Montana is now open. The conference will be May 16-18. Registration for JA-SIG Members is offered at a discounted rate. Go to http://www.umt.edu/portlets2007/ for more information and to register.

  • Sun Awards Grant to Princeton University for the Support of JA-SIG’s Server Infrastructure
    Princeton, NJ – February 2, 2007 – Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW), the creator of Java technology and Solaris, today awarded an Academic Excellence Grant to Princeton University for the support of JA-SIG, the global, non-profit organization focusing on the sharing of open technology in higher education. The grant will be used to replace the aging hardware/software infrastructure supporting JA-SIG’s applications, databases, and utilities.

  • Portlets 2007 Conference
    On behalf of the University of Montana, we invite you to participate in the Portlets 2007 Conference, which will take place at the University of Montana in Missoula, from Wednesday May 16 - Friday May 18, 2007.

  • JA-SIG Announces Membership Program
    JA-SIG announced a new membership program and benefits designed to attract worldwide educational institutions and commercial supporters of its enterprise open source applications...

  • 2007 JA-SIG Summer Conference, Denver, June 24-27
    Please join us for the upcoming 2007 JA-SIG Summer Conference at the in Denver, Colorado. The conference is being held June 24-27, 2007. Registration and call for proposals will be coming soon!

  • uPortal 3 RC 1 Released
    uPortal 3, the next generation open source enterprise portal, is now available for download. Institutions can immediately begin working with and testing the portal's latest frameworks and enhancements for their future planned rollouts and implementations. Unicon served as the chief architectural organization responsible for developing most of uPortal 3's technology framework enhancements and for delivering it to the uPortal open source community in its current state.

  • CAMPUSEAI Consortium Announces Support For JA-SIG uPortal
    CLEVELAND ­ September 13, 2006 ­ CampusEAI Consortium (CEAI) today announced its support of JA-SIG uPortal. To support uPortal, CEAI provides access to the CEAI Vault, a repository of CEAI-supported community source channels for uPortal clients to decrease the risk, time and cost associated with their portal deployments and ongoing channel development.

  • JA-SIG Board of Directors Announces uPortal Roadmap
    The first release candidate of JA-SIG uPortal 3.0 will be available for developer review, prototyping, and performance testing in time for the 15th bi-annual JA-SIG conference in Atlanta, Georgia, December 3rd ­ 5th.

  • ESUP-Portail Conference Draws 220 Participants in Paris
    Two Hundred and twenty participants recently attended the "ESUP-Days" conference in Paris (22 and 23 June 2006) organized by the ESUP-Portail consortium.

  • Unicon Offers Sakai Developer Training
    Mark Norton will be leading a Unicon Sakai developer training course in Phoenix October 16-18.

  • 2006 JA-SIG Winter Conference, Atlanta, Dec. 3-5
    Please join us for the upcoming 2006 JA-SIG Winter Conference at the Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference is being held December 3rd, 2006 – December 5th, 2006. Registration and call for proposals will be coming soon!

  • CAS 3.0.5 RC1 Released
    We're pleased to announce the availability of the CAS 3.0.5 RC1 release. This release includes many new features, enhancements and bug fixes.

  • New OpenEAI Public Course Offerings
    Open Integration Incorporated (http://www.OpenII.com ) has announced its third and fourth quarter 2006 OpenEAI Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and OpenII Toolkit for OpenEAI public course offerings.

  • Power outage to disrupt access to JA-SIG web presense
    At Princeton, An extended computing service outage is planned from 7 p.m. Friday, June 9, through 6 a.m. Monday, June 12, 2006 to install a new electrical transformer. As a result, the JA-SIG home page, the uPortal home page, the developer.ja-sig.org site (CVS, Fisheye, Luntbuild, etc), and the clearinghouse application will all be down that entire weekend.

  • Tim Bray to speak at JA-SIG Summer, 2006 Conference
    Tim Bray, directory of web technologies at Sun Microsystems is scheduled to speak at the JA-SIG Summer, 2006 Conference.

  • uPortal Training
    Unicon is offering uPortal Administration Training at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona on May 2 - 4, 2006.

  • Student Services System -- Next Generation
    A white paper from IBM BCS describing an open source Student Services System is now available.

  • JA-SIG Summer, 2006 Conference
    June 4-6, 2006 The Westin Bayshore in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Information is now available regarding registration and accommodations.

  • A-HEC open source survey
    The Alliance for Higher Education Competitiveness, Inc. (A-HEC) is a non-profit higher education research organization. The organization is currently surveying institutions on Best Practices in Open Source and has solicited respondents to the A-HEC open source survey from the JA-SIG community.

  • JA-SIG Board Statement on uPortal
    December 10, 2005: JA-SIG Board releases statement on uPortal Strategic Direction

  • JA-SIG Winter Conference
    Coming up December 4-6, 2005, Austin, Texas. Followed by the Sakai conference December 7-9, 2005.

  • Attend the upcoming Kuali and Workflow workshop, Oct. 11 and 12.

  • Links to summer uPortal conference presentations are now available
    More links will be added as they are received.

  • New uPortal Wiki established by developer community

  • JA-SIG CAS Release
    The Java Architectures Special Interest Group (JA-SIG) is delighted to announce that Yale Central Authentication Service (CAS) is joining the growing JA-SIG family of open source solutions for higher education. CAS is a WebISO solution recognized by the Internet2 Middleware working group and is commonly deployed with uPortal to provide web single sign-on and proxy authentication.

  • New JA-SIG Clearinghouse Goes Live!

  • JA-SIG sponsors HyperContent
    HyperContent is an open-source web content management system developed for higher education, by higher education.

  • uPortal partners with Sakai, recipient of $2.5 million Mellon Grant

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