Jasig Conference Highlights

[Patty Gertz]

Jasig celebrates successful annual conference in Denver.

Jasig, the higher-ed open source consortium of educational institutions and
commercial affiliates, held its annual conference in Denver the week of May
22.  A broad range of attendees participated in a successful week of
collaboration, innovation, and learning. Highlights of the conference
included:

.         Announcing uMobile
<http://www.jasig.org/sites/jasig.webchuckhosting.com/files/uMobile_brochure
_0.pdf>  , the latest sponsored Jasig project

.         Previews of the upcoming uPortal 4
<http://www.jasig.org/sites/jasig.webchuckhosting.com/files/uPortal4_brochur
e.pdf>  release

.         The success of our incubation process, shepherding new projects
from concept to production 

.         Continued progress on bringing the Jasig <http://www.jasig.org>
and Sakai <http://www.sakaiproject.org>  communities together

.         New efforts to partner with Kuali <http://www.kuali.org> , I2
<http://www.internet2.edu>  and Sakai in the area of Identity and Access
Management

.         Engaging conversations with the 2-3-98 Project
<https://wiki.jasig.org/display/2398/Welcome+To+The+2-3-98+Project>  on the
strategic role of open source in higher education, from development to
awareness and adoption

Please visit the conference site
<https://wiki.jasig.org/display/JCON/Spring+2011+Conference+Presentation+Mat
erials>  to see the wide range of presentation materials.

Thanks again to our sponsors, Vasco <http://www.vasco.com/>  and Unicon
<http://www.unicon.net/> .  For more information about Vasco products please
send email to David Nayes at dna at vasco.com.  For more information about
Unicon please send email to David Lipari at dlipari at unicon.net .

 

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