Rutgers University. Associate Director of Architecture and Engineering. Newly appointed JA-SIG Board Chair. Former uPortal Board Liason, and long-time open source advocate.
Ken Weiner
LowerMyBills.com. Developer. Former Project Manager and lead developer for uPortal. Could likely provide some really interesting perspective on the formation and early years of uPortal, and thoughts going forward.
Charise Arrowood
Unicon, Inc. Director of the cooperative support program. So, what's it like directing support for JA-SIG's uPortal? What do you see? What recent news from the Cooperative Support program? How about the experience of releasing the Academus functionality as open source software, and building a story around how anyone – Unicon customer or not – can use that free and open source software with uPortal?
Pascal Aubry
CAS, ESUP-Portail. PHP CAS Client! Helps showcase CAS, a successful JA-SIG project not yet particularly featured in the newsletter via the community member profile.
Patrick Berry
Tell us the story about the tree and the house. Oh, and about your highly successful uPortal and CAS projects as CSU Chico. Didn't you once work for the FSF? Helps showcase CAS, a successful JA-SIG project not yet particularly featured in the newsletter via the community member profile.
John Blakley
CEO of Unicon, Inc. Who is this enigma? No blog, no profile on unicon.net, yet the mastermind pulling the levers at the founding JA-SIG Commercial Affiliate. Where do you see Unicon going next in a successful relationship with JA-SIG and with JA-SIG software? Rumour has it you've recently rolled out consulting services for CAS – any truth to this? Helps emphasize availability of commercial support and consulting services for JA-SIG community source software.
Jennifer Bourey
Drag and drop preferences in uPortal are way cool – how did you get involved and interested in this? Helps JA-SIG position itself as attentive to user experience.
Susan Bramhall
long-time JA-SIG community member, prior conference committee chair, highly successful developer of YaleInfo portal, and now drawn into some interesting IdM stuff, and every school's looking at IdM these days, right?
Colin Clark
Fluid Project knowledge
Dan Ellentuck
Knows everything there is to know about uPortal groups and permissions, and this seems to be one of the most discussed aspects of uPortal deployments on the lists
Jens Haeusser
Has expertise in Identity Management in Higher Ed
Richard Klein (Brooklyn College)
Now that you've been successfully in production with CAS for a while, what are your reflections on the project? What has gone well? What could go better? Where are you going next with your project?
Jonathan Markow
Who is our esteemed executive director? Where did he come from, what is his background, what did he do before JA-SIG?
Alex Vigdor
How's life outside of higher ed? Where's Hypercontent going next?
Past profiles
(The idea is to list and link to prior newletters including these profiles, to give us a running history of who has been profiled.)
Alain Mayeur, a member of the JA-SIG board of directors, is IT Director at the University of Valenciennes. Alain is a leader and one of the founders of the ESUP-Portail consortium, a group of approximately eighty French institutions collaborating on community source efforts based around uPortal.
As someone who has been part of our community since the beginnings of JA-SIG and uPortal, Adam, now a consultant with Unicon, has some interesting views to share. Equally stimulating are his perspectives on the state of the art of service oriented architectures.
