JA-SIG News

Cernunnos Project Announces 1.0 Release of Open Source, Reusable Libraries

2008-11-06 14:37:12-0500

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.

Sakai and uPortal Open Source Webinar Briefings Broadcast LIVE from EDUCAUSE

2008-10-29 18:00:54-0400

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

2008-10-29 17:40:38-0400

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

2008-10-21 17:44:18-0400

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

2008-10-21 17:34:30-0400

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.

Announcing the 2009 JASIG Spring Conference

2008-09-26 21:01:07-0400

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

JASIG at EDUCAUSE 2008

2008-09-27 14:45:40-0400

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

2008-08-05 10:16:31-0400

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

2008-07-03 12:47:14-0400

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

2008-05-08 10:42:06-0400

*Phoenix, AZ - *Unicon, Inc ., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals,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.