Middleware Announcements

[Renee Frost <>]

All,
Apologies in advance for the cross posts.

I'd like to encourage you to submit IdM-related proposals to this
important open-source conference. This meeting will draw a diverse
developer and campus audience, and it would be great to include some
campus integration stories on the program. BTW, registration is also
open now.

Cheers,
Ann

Ann West
NMI-EDIT Outreach
EDUCAUSE/Internet2/Michigan Tech

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*Higher Education Solutions:  The Community Source Way!*

April 28 - 30, 2008
St. Paul, MN, USA

Featuring...

CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal ...and
more!

*Call for Proposals now open*
Deadline for submission of proposals: February 22, 2008

Conference site: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html__


Dear Colleague:

The JA-SIG Spring 2008 Conference will be held at the end of April this
year. We have extended invitations to our many colleagues in higher
education community source to share in the event, and we're excited to
present a first-time, jointly planned conference.

Whatever your project affiliation, become an active part of this
conference by submitting proposals for presentations, BOF (Birds Of a
Feather) sessions, and Poster Sessions using the link at the bottom of
this message.  Topics that span projects are particularly welcome!

We welcome your contributions in the following areas:

    * *Community Source Management/Governance:  *What are best practices
      for managing community source projects or their deployments on
      campus? For encouraging adoption? For gaining acceptance and
      campus buy-in? For engaging your community in the processes?
      Presentations for managers, team leaders, executives, planners and
      strategists.
    * *Design and Development:  *For developers, architects, UX
      designers, testers. Presentations for people who build community
      source products, use them as a development framework or want to
      learn more about doing so. These are technical topics, tips and
      techniques, how-to's.
    * *Deployment and Integration:  *Presentations for people who need
      to make applications work on campus: developers, content
      providers, team leaders, evangelists. In particular, we would like
      to highlight work that integrates community source projects within
      the enterprise infrastructure and with each other.
    * *Multiple Audiences:  *Presentations that span multiple projects
      or audience types. Community source project introductions and
      overviews.

Half-day Supplementary Seminars (already selected) will be held in the
morning and afternoon on Sunday, April 27th as well as on Wednesday
(April 30th) afternoon, presented by representatives from each of our
partnering organizations. [See Details
<http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/seminars.html>].  A barCamp
and UCamp will be held on Wednesday afternoon in the style of our recent

"Unconference" - a great informal opportunity to network and meet the
experts.

Proposals may be entered on the JA-SIG Conference Website. Proposals
require a Title, an Abstract (under 500 words), a Presenter Profile, and

some basic affiliation information.

Submit your proposal directly by clicking here
*http://tinyurl.com/2voabt *or from the conference home page, where you
can find all the details:
http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html

Join your colleagues in St. Paul this April.  This will be an
unprecedented opportunity to meet and learn from each other. See you at
"Higher Education Solutions:  The Community Source Way"!







Renée Woodten Frost
Associate Director, Middleware and Security
Internet2
1000 Oakbrook Drive, Suite 300
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
phone:  734-913-4293    fax:  734-913-4255