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. 

Tom Barton

University of Chicago

JA-SIG Program Committee

*"Higher Education Open Source Communities - Working Together*"

March 1-4, 2009

Dallas, Texas, USA

*Call for Proposals now open*

Deadline for submission of proposals for half or full day seminars:

November 5, 2008

Deadline for submission of proposals for regular one hour sessions:

December 1, 2008

Conference site: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/index.html

Dear Colleague:

The JA-SIG Conference Planning Committee is pleased to announce the

Spring 2009 Conference to be held March 1-4 in Dallas, Texas. 

Following the great success of last year's conference, we are partnering

with our open source community colleagues to create a forum for

collaboration and learning.  Join your colleagues from Bedework, CAS,

DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal and other open

source projects, and submit proposals for a pre-conference seminar,

presentation, kiosk, BOF or poster session!

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 will be held in the morning and

afternoon on Sunday, March 1st as well as on Wednesday (March 4th)

afternoon.

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.  This year we are also asking

proposal submitters to select tags that best describe their proposals

from a list of recommended tags <http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/CAAnAQ>.

Submit your proposal directly at 

http://www.ja-sig.org/jasigconf/call-form.jsp?conf_id=jasig15 or from

the conference home page, where you can find all the details:

http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/index.html  (Click the "Call

for Proposals" link on the left).

We look forward to seeing you at "Higher Education Open Source

Communities - Working Together"!