Justin Erenkrantz From Apache Announced as a Keynote Speaker

Each year, the Jasig Conference Planning Committee tries to outdo the previous year's committee with regards to obtaining top keynote speakers. This year is no different. We've already announced our stellar line-up of keynote speakers: Gregory A. Jackson from EDUCAUSE, Rod Johnson from SpringSource, and Justin Erenkrantz from the Apache Software Foundation. Over the coming months, we'll be using this blog to clue you in to why the Jasig conference is relevant to you. To kick this off, we're going to discuss our keynote speakers, in particular, in this entry, Justin Erenkrantz.

Justin's currently a software engineer for Joost, an Internet TV service. He also recently received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine, with a dissertation titled Architectural Dissonance and Harmony in REST-based Applications. In addition to that, he's currently serving as the president of the Apache Software Foundation. He's contributed to many projects that many of us use in our daily jobs including the Apache HTTP Server, Subversion, and APR.

The Apache Software Foundation recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, much like Jasig will be doing at the upcoming conference. The similarities don't end there though. Jasig has adopted the Apache 2.0 license as its license, and adopted much of Apache's concepts including meritocracy and incubation. The Apache Software Foundation's growth (including pains) and evolution provide an interesting glimpse into possible future directions for Jasig.

Justin's keynote will review the history and structure of Apache, discuss "The Apache Way", relevant business models often seen with Apache projects, and other aspects of the foundation.

Even if you're not actively involved in the guidance of Jasig, or any of its projects, the tale of Apache is sure to be of interest. You'd be hard-pressed to find a project that you've worked on that hasn't in some way utilized a project sponsored by Apache. You'll also gain valuable insight into how your favorite Jasig projects are run!

Find out more about Justin and the details on his presentation on the Jasig Conference web site.

Jasig 2010: Registration is Open

Register Now for Jasig Spring 2010: "Ten Years of Open Source Innovation"


When: March 8 - 10, 2010
          Supplementary Seminars March 7th and 10th
          Developer Days, March 11 - 12

Town and Country Resort
500 Hotel Circle North
San Diego,CA 92108 USA
Hotel Front Desk: +1-619-291-7131
Toll Free, Reservations only: 1-800-772-8527

Help us celebrate Jasig's 10th anniversary in San Diego with outstanding speakers and special events!

Listen to...
    Gregory A. Jackson, Vice President for Policy Analysis at Educause
    Justin Erenkrantz, President of the Apache Software Foundation
    Rod Johnson, Founder of the Spring Framework Project

See presentations and seminars on new technologies soon to impact higher education. You'll be hearing about Spring 3, Amazon EC2, Groovy,  REST, mobile applications, etc.

Spend seminar time implementing and upgrading uPortal, deploying CAS, and customizing Bedework; configure the new enterprise HelpDesk application; learn how to use uPortal's new mobile theme; build dynamic JavaScript user interfaces using the jQuery toolkit.  Learn how to develop next generation portlets, lay the foundation for an enterprise identity management architecture; learn how to submit a project to the Jasig Incubator.

Attend presentations on Identity & Access Management, the Fluid Project, OpenRegistry, Kuali Workflow, Internet2 Middleware Solutions, OpenCast, OWASP, and much more...

Visit the Jasig Conference Site:  http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/10spring/index.html

Register now!  http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/10spring/registration.html

See you in San Diego!

-The Jasig Spring 2010 Program Committee

Jasig 2010 Call for Proposals Extended

The Proposal deadline for Jasig's March 2010 conference has been extended one more week until Wednesday, November 25th.  If you are doing innovative work in technology for higher education, we welcome you to submit a presentation!

We want to hear about new projects, large and small, and new technologies that will have an impact on higher education in the years to come.

Join us in San Diego this March:

Ten Years of Open Source Innovation
March 8 - 10, 2009

The Town and Country Resort, San Diego, California

Supplementary Seminars on March 7th and the afternoon of March 10th
Developer Workshops, March 11 - 12

Call for Proposals now open
Deadline for submission of proposals for half or full day seminars has passed and will not be extended
Deadline for submission of proposals for all other sessions: extended to November 25, 2009

Conference site: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/10spring/index.html

Dear Colleague:

Help us celebrate Jasig's 10th anniversary in San Diego with outstanding speakers and special events.

The focus is on innovation this year. We'll be highlighting new and established work from higher education institutions:  Projects you should know about; local projects in search of community; creative work by established communities of practice; projects that exist only as a gleam in the eye of a creative developer.

Come and see presentations and seminars on new technologies soon to impact higher education.  We're seeking talks on topics such as Scala, Spring 3, deployment to the Cloud, Groovy, Grails, REST, Jersey, mobile applications, etc.

We invite you to propose talks, seminars, birds-of-a-feather sessions, demos, and poster session displays on new and current campus applications: Enterprise portlets, CAS, uPortal, Bedework Calendar, Identity & Access Management, Fluid, ESUP Helpdesk, OpenRegistry, Sakai, Kuali, Internet2 Middleware Solutions, Fedora and DSpace, and others.

Talks will be presented in one of four tracks:

• Designing & Developing
  For developers, architects, UX designers, testers. Presentations for people who build applications.
• Deploying & Integrating
  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 open source projects within the enterprise infrastructure and with each other.
• Managing & Governing
  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.
• Looking Ahead
  What are the technologies that will impact higher education in the coming years? What project work, prototypes, plans, and local campus applications would you like to share with a community of your peers?

Half-day Supplementary Seminars will be held in the morning and afternoon on Sunday, March 7th as well as on Wednesday (March 10th) afternoon.

Proposals may be entered on the Jasig 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.

Submit your proposal directly at http://www.ja-sig.org/jasigconf/call-form.jsp?conf_id=jasig17 or from the conference home page, where you can find all the details: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/10spring/index.html (Click the Call for Proposals link on the left).

We look forward to seeing you at Ten Years of Open Source Innovation!

-The Jasig 2010 Spring Conference Planning Committee