Posted by: jayshao on: March 2, 2009
Listening to Scott talk about CAS4 work and effort. Core items he’s mentioned look to be:
* Redesigned to better support non-CAS protocols (e.g. SAML, etc.)
* Increased emphasis on SAML as a product
* Better admin tools (service administration, workflow for registering services)
* Eased configuration (w/o needing to edit deployerContext.xml)
* Better extension points: captcha, “password expired” messages
* [...]
Posted by: jayshao on: March 1, 2009
In Dallas at the Jasig Conference, getting ready for the Board meeting where we’ll be looking at licensing, incubation, and some other strategic concerns related to open-source in HigherEd. Already had some great conversations about CAS & credential replay, Peoplesoft integration, and open-source economics & dynamics.
P.S. Ian Dolphin clarified over beers last night that he [...]
Posted by: jayshao on: November 19, 2007
Eric posted the video from uPortal’s EDUCAUSE Catalyst award onto Youtube:
Posted by: jayshao on: November 18, 2007
So, the JA-SIG un-conference (even the working sessions) is over, giving me a chance to do some thinking and reflection about the event and its aftermath.
Overall, the attendance, interest, and excitement demonstrated by all of the participants was pretty overwhelming. We had both more individuals, institutions, and organizations represented than we ever would have anticipated [...]
Posted by: jayshao on: November 12, 2007
After taking out a while to do introductions and handle the administrativa (even unconfs can’t seem to get away from it) we’re into the lightning talks which I’m trying to keep up with to podcast. They’re going pretty fast, we’ve gone through something like 6 so far, and they’re coming up fast.
Update: I was reminded [...]
Posted by: jayshao on: October 31, 2007
At the Community Source reception cosponsored by JA-SIG, Sakai, Kuali it was uplifting to see the number of people participating. CIOs, managers, developers, vendors were all present in abundance. It was also clear from conversation at the reception that open-source in the Higher Ed is breaking into new areas. While there’s no question infrastructure and [...]
Posted by: jayshao on: October 30, 2007
This post is me catching up with my podcasting from the JA-SIG Summer 2007 Conference in Denver. Matt Raible did a rendition of his Java Frameworks talk, discussing his experience with the various Java web frameworks. I’ve attached an (OK) audio transcript of the talk, which Matt also blogged about at: http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/ja_sig_comparing_java_web where he also [...]
Posted by: jayshao on: July 24, 2007
Open Source Portal Project Honored as Catalyst
Campustech did a short piece on JA-SIG uPortal winning EDUCAUSE’s Catalyst Award, where they mentioned the award, and then quoted some bits from Jim H…
Jim Helwig, the project manager of the uPortal project at the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Department of Information Technology, said the project represented the [...]
Posted by: jayshao on: June 27, 2007
> “Connected world, Connected Software”, “Open source produces better software” (81% of respondents via Gartner)
Matt’s perspective on focusing innovation on the “last mile” plays well with my thoughts on focusing on delivering institutional value. It’s interesting in that he combines that perspective with the pitch that open-source empowers you to build software to suit your [...]
Famous
Posted by: jayshao on: September 16, 2007
Looks like I’m famous A Q&A on how I got involved with JA-SIG and some of my thoughts on education and open-source was posted in the latest issue of the JA-SIG Newsletter (which Roger has done a superior job of publishing monthly, and on a real schedule too — congratulations!)