Upcoming Events
JA-SIG Spring 2009 Conference
March 1-4, 2009 in Dallas, TX.
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Purpose of the JA-SIG
- to provide education and research in the applied use of open technology architectures and systems in higher education- to develop a global academic community of interest among practitioners and institutions and to inform that community of international activities, projects, and opportunities in the field of open technology architectures and systems in higher education
- to educate by coaching, collaborating, and sharing good practices, and disseminating the results of innovative approaches in this field
- to create, through its various activities including conferences, projects, and outreach, an atmosphere of trust, goodwill, and mutual respect amongst all participants
Activities
The JA-SIG membership is engaged in several activities. The first is the sponsorship of an annual conference. The conference, having two technical and one management track, formally held semi-annually is now a multi-day community source event. A second activity, the JA-SIG Clearinghouse, is a place on the Web to facilitate the sharing of community source components. The third JA-SIG activity is the development of a free, open source, open standard portal for higher education: uPortal.Our Supporters
JA-SIG wishes to acknowledge the generous support of:
- Sun Microsystems
Awards
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Cernunnos Project Announces 1.0 Release of Open Source, Reusable Libraries
Phoenix, AZ, November 4, 2008 - The Cernunnos Team, a group of developers from leading educational institutions and IT consulting companies, is pleased to announce the availability of Cernunnos v1.0.0, the first release of Cernunnos for the general public. Cernunnos is an open source Java project that embodies software industry best practices based on innovative design principals. -
Announcing the 2009 JASIG Spring Conference
Save the Dates! Announcing the 2009 JASIG Spring Conference Sunday, March 1 - Wednesday, March 4 Join JASIG and the greater higher education open source community -
Sakai and uPortal Open Source Webinar Briefings Broadcast LIVE from EDUCAUSE
Phoenix, AZ - October 27, 2008— The executive directors from The Sakai Project and JASIG/uPortal will each deliver a LIVE Webinar executive briefing broadcast from EDUCAUSE covering the current state of their respective open source technology platforms and the future direction of their communities. -
Unicon Announces Services for Shibboleth Federating Software for Secure Single Sign On and Authentication
hoenix, AZ - October 27, 2008— Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source software consulting services for the education market, today announced it is providing implementation, integration, and customization services for the Shibboleth® System, a standards based, open source software package for Web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries. -
JA-SIG Announces New Board Directors
Princeton, NJ – September 1, 2008 – JA-SIG, the non-profit, global consortium of higher education institutions, partners, and affiliates dedicated to sharing open source software solutions, today announced the names of five community members who were newly elected to its Board of Directors, effective September 1, 2008: -
Unicon's Education IT Consulting Group Collaborates with Johns Hopkins University Staff for uPortal 3 Upgrade
Phoenix, AZ - October 15, 2008 —Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals, applications, and top end technology consulting for higher education, today announced the completion of a collaborative project with the IT staff at John's Hopkins University for their upgrade to the latest uPortal 3 open source enterprise portal. As part of the upgrade process, Johns Hopkins University also contracted with Unicon to develop numerous uPortal 3 feature enhancements. Johns Hopkins went live with the uPortal 3 upgrade in August 2008 and contributed the newly developed enhancements back to the open source community. -
JASIG at EDUCAUSE 2008
Are you planning to attend the annual EDUCAUSE conference in Orlando this year, October 28-31? JASIG will be featured at a number of events, and we invite you to take part in any and all of them! -
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. -
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.
