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Unicon Announces uPortal 3 Commercial Support
Phoenix, AZ - May 5, 2008 - 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.
Johns Hopkins University Selects Unicon to Develop uPortal Mobile for Campus & Students
Phoenix, AZ - April 21, 2008 - Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals, applications, and top end technology consulting for higher education, today announced it has been chosen by Johns Hopkins University to develop and deploy its new mobility theme based on uPortal, the open source enterprise portal for higher ed. The mobility theme is designed to enhance the functionality and content of its campus portal to make it accessible by mobile devices such as cell phones, SmartPhones, and PDAs and more useful to students, faculty, and administrators. The mobility development work and testing is scheduled to be completed and go live in the summer of 2008. Johns Hopkins University plans to donate the mobile development work back to the uPortal open source community.
JA-SIG Releases uPortal 3.0.0-GA for Production Use
The JA-SIG uPortal Project Steering Committee is extremely pleased to announce the release of uPortal 3.0, the next generation community source portal platform designed by and for the higher education community. The new release marks a major, evolutionary step forward for the award-winning project. Version 3.0 has brought the rock solid, high performing uPortal 2.x product to a new level, incorporating current best practices in enterprise Java. The entire uPortal community can unite on one branch moving forward, and it is now possible for everyone to migrate to the latest version of uPortal when appropriate for their institution. uPortal 3.0 builds upon the flexibility and reliability of uPortal 2.x while providing an attractive look and feel using improved JavaScript libraries, even more robust portlet support, a modern build environment, use of leading Java frameworks (Spring), and other enhancements, bringing the larger deployments and performance already achieved in uPortal 2 in easier reach of more uPortal adopters.
JA-SIG Server Outage March 15th and 16th
Due to scheduled down time, all sites on www.ja-sig.org, developer.ja-sig.org and www.uportal.org will be unavailable from 6pm Eastern Time, Saturday March 15th through 10pm Eastern Time, Sunday March 16th. This means that the wiki, issue tracker, web site, source, and downloads will be unavailable during this time frame. The mailing lists will be unaffected. If you have any questions or concerns about the outage please contact infrastructure@ja-sig.org Sorry for any inconvenience that may occur from this downtime.
170 Participants Attend Fifth ESUP-Portail Conference in Paris
One hundred and seventy participants recently attended the "ESUP-Days" conference in Paris (Feb. 5, 2008) organized by the ESUP-Portail consortium.
St. Paul, MN April JA-SIG Conference Seminars Announced
JA-SIG is pleased to announce selection of pre- and post-conference seminars about open source software for the Spring 2008 JA-SIG conference to be held in St. Paul, Minnesota. Pre-conference events to be held on Sunday April 27th include tutorials on uPortal and DSpace upgrading; seminars on JavaScript and identity management; and hands-on introductions to Kuali Financials, Spring PortletMVC, Fedora repository, and CAS. Post-conference events on Wednesday April 30th include introductions to uPortal, Kuali Rice, and Sakai, as well as a half-day Bar Camp. Oh, and there will be a whole conference in between these seminars: more on that to come. In the meantime, sign up now to reserve your place in your seminars of choice. http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/
2008 JA-SIG Spring Conference: St. Paul, MN, April 27-30
Please join us for the upcoming 2008 JA-SIG Spring Conference in St. Paul, Minnesota. The conference is being held April 27-30, 2007. Registration and call for proposals will be coming soon!
Unicon's Ten New uPortal Projects at Universities
*Phoenix**, AZ** – January 8, 2008 *-- Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals, applications, and professional services for academic institutions, today announced that it has added ten new colleges and universities as uPortal customers during the second half of 2007. These institutions contracted with Unicon for a variety of services including deployment, accelerated development, application and system integration, administration training, consulting, and support through Unicon's Cooperative Support Program.
uPortal 2.6.1 GA now available
uPortal 2.6.1 general audience release now available for download.
Educause 2007 Award Video Featuring uPortal
uPortal was showcased in an Educause session highlighting its receipt of the 2007 Catalyst Award and in an accompanying video. A Flash version of this video is available at http://www.educause.edu/awardsate07
Students Post Compelling MyUA Video
University of Alaska students have posted a compelling video about their Luminis-implemented (uPortal-based) MyUA campus portal.
Pearson Education Reaches Over One Million Students With JA-SIG's uPortal
Educational Publisher Pearson Education's CourseCompass Product Provides Course Content to a Growing Community through JA-SIG's Award-Winning Portal
The JA-SIG 2007 Unconference is Coming!
Join us November 12th and 13th at Rutgers University for the first JA-SIG Unconference. Meet with your peers and the uPortal, CAS, JSR-168, Fluid, SpringMVC experts (among others!)
CampusEAI Offers uPortal Training at University of Dundee (Scotland)
CampusEAI's 5-Day, Training Course will cover uPortal and CAS topics.
Unicon Announces September uPortal Administration Training at Sacramento State
Unicon announced it will hold a three-day uPortal administration training at Sacramento State -- www.csus.edu/ -- this September 25-27, 2007.
uPortal 2.6.0 released
A general audience release of uPortal 2.6.0 is now available for download. This release includes many exciting improvements including drag-and-drop preferences, a div-centric-css-savvy default theme, improved JSR-168 support, DLM as default layout manager, and numerous bugfixes.
ESUP-Days 4: 130 Participants Attend Fourth ESUP-Portail Conference in Paris
One hundred and thirty participants recently attended the "ESUP-Days" conference in Paris (July 5, 2007) organized by the ESUP-Portail consortium.
uPortal 2.6.0 RC2 Quick Start Now Available
uPortal 2.6.0 RC2 quick-start release now available for download.
SunGard HE Posts Statement Regarding Luminis Portal Strategy
SunGard HE affirms ongoing support for uPortal while adding Oracle Portal as a future choice for Luminis clients
uPortal Receives Prestigious EDUCAUSE Catalyst Award
Princeton, NJ – June 25, 2007 – JA-SIG, the non-profit organization responsible for the uPortal community source enterprise portal, today announced that uPortal has received the prestigious EDUCAUSE Catalyst Award for its innovations and initiatives centered on information technologies that provide groundbreaking solutions to major challenges in higher education.
uPortal 2.6.0 RC2 now available
uPortal 2.6.0 release candidate 2 is now available for download from the uPortal website.
uPortal 2.5.3.1 now available
uPortal 2.5.3.1, a security patch release including a fix to a critical security vulnerability present in uPortal 2.5.3, is now available.
Yale University Upgrades YaleInfo
Yale University has successfully upgraded their uPortal instance to a pre-release of uPortal 2.6.0, proving in production Yale's contribution of more dynamic drag-and-drop user preferences technology.
uPortal 2.6.0 RC1 now available
uPortal 2.6.0 RC1 is now available for download. The many improvements in this release include: drag-and-drop preferences support, better JSR-168 preferences support, oodles of dependency upgrades.
DormItem offering free uPortal Classifieds, branded for your school
DormItem: College Classifieds Search Engine is offering uPortal administrators a free integration of the microregional classifieds system. Classifieds are a great tool to attract students to your portal, so they see important news and events that otherwise may be missed. DormItem builds a custom RSS feed to place in a portlet, which shows listings not just from your own school but neighboring campuses as well. The portlet then clicks through to a custom branded version of DormItem that matches your school colors. DormItem offers students free listings, safer trading with Rapleaf integration, and facebook integration. More info: view document attached. Contact info: Dan Scudder. dan@dormitem.com. Website: http://www.dormitem.com.
uPortal 3 Developer Workshop Scheduled in April
Time will be set aside on the Wednesday of the spring Developers Meeting (4/25) for uPortal 3 developer training and mentoring. We encourage anyone interested in learning more about uPortal framework development or beginning a uPortal 3 implementation to attend. Training will be conducted by some of the core uP3 developers.
2007 JA-SIG Summer Conference, Denver, June 24-27
Please join us for the upcoming 2007 JA-SIG Summer Conference at the in Denver, Colorado. The conference is being held June 24-27, 2007. Registration and call for proposals will be coming soon!
Johns Hopkins University Sponsors uPortal Developer Conference
Johns Hopkins University today announced its sponsorship of the Spring JA-SIG uPortal Developers Conference. This spring's conference will be held Monday and Tuesday, April 23 and 24, 2007, 9 AM to 4 PM each day. Developers are encouraged to stay for the remainder of the week (April 25 - 27) for an extended coding session.
Portlets 2007 Conference Registration Open
Registration for the Portlets 2007 Conference at The University of Montana is now open. The conference will be May 16-18. Registration for JA-SIG Members is offered at a discounted rate. Go to http://www.umt.edu/portlets2007/ for more information and to register.
UBC_Webmail 3.2 Beta Now Available
UBC_Webmail beta release 3.2 has been tagged in the CVS repository with tag "beta_release_3-2". It will be available for testing until 9 February 2007. Thanks to Paul Gazda, Holly Coast, and George Lindholm for their contributions to this release.
uPortal 3 Release Candidate now available
uPortal 3, the next generation open source enterprise portal, is now available for download. Institutions can immediately begin working with and testing the portal's latest frameworks and enhancements for their future planned rollouts and implementations. Unicon served as the chief architectural organization responsible for developing most of uPortal 3's technology framework enhancements and for delivering it to the uPortal open source community in its current state.
CAMPUSEAI Consortium Announces Support For JA-SIG uPortal
CLEVELAND September 13, 2006 CampusEAI Consortium (CEAI) today announced its support of JA-SIG uPortal. To support uPortal, CEAI provides access to the CEAI Vault, a repository of CEAI-supported community source channels for uPortal clients to decrease the risk, time and cost associated with their portal deployments and ongoing channel development.
uPortal 2.5.3 now available
uPortal 2.5.3 is now available.
2006 JA-SIG Winter Conference, Atlanta, Dec. 3-5
Please join us for the upcoming 2006 JA-SIG Winter Conference at the Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference is being held December 3rd, 2006 – December 5th, 2006. Registration and call for proposals will be coming soon!
ESUP-Portail Conference Draws 220 Participants in Paris
Two Hundred and twenty participants recently attended the "ESUP-Days" conference in Paris (22 and 23 June 2006) organized by the ESUP-Portail consortium.
Power outage to disrupt access to JA-SIG web presense
At Princeton, An extended computing service outage is planned from 7 p.m. Friday, June 9, through 6 a.m. Monday, June 12, 2006 to install a new electrical transformer. As a result, the JA-SIG home page, the uPortal home page, the developer.ja-sig.org site (CVS, Fisheye, Luntbuild, etc), and the clearinghouse application will all be down that entire weekend.
Tim Bray to speak at JA-SIG Summer, 2006 Conference
Tim Bray, directory of web technologies at Sun Microsystems is scheduled to speak at the JA-SIG Summer, 2006 Conference.
uPortal Requirements Call-to-Action
The JA-SIG Board of Directors extends an open invitation to participate in the evolution of the next generation uPortal.
uPortal Administration Training Available
Unicon is offering uPortal Administration Training at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona on May 2 - 4, 2006. The training is targeted to Web site/portal administrators and IT personnel.
JA-SIG Summer, 2006 Conference
June 4-6, 2006 The Westin Bayshore in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Information is now available regarding registration and accommodations.
uPortal Developers Meeting
The Spring uPortal Developers Meeting is being hosted at Rutgers University, March 27-31.
New JA-SIG Clearinghouse goes live
The JA-SIG is pleased to announce the new JA-SIG Clearinghouse. This clearinghouse is a digital repository whose purpose is to facilitate collaboration among the members of the JA-SIG. Please visit us and either make a contribution or review the existing content. For more information, see the ReadMe and FAQ documents on the clearinghouse website.
JA-SIG Board Statement on uPortal
December 10, 2005: JA-SIG Board releases statement on uPortal Strategic Direction
Fall 2005 Developers Meeting
September 19-20 @ IUPUI
2005wiki
2005winter
December 4-6, 2005, Austin, Texas. Followed by the Sakai conference December 7-9, 2005.
uPortal 2.4.3.1 released
uPortal 2.5.1 released
uPortal version 2.5.1 general audience release now available



JA-SIG Home uPortal Home Documentation Download FAQ Wiki Getting Involved Code Repository Reporting Bugs License		Unicon Announces uPortal 3 Commercial Support Phoenix, AZ - May 5, 2008 - 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. Johns Hopkins University Selects Unicon to Develop uPortal Mobile for Campus & Students Phoenix, AZ - April 21, 2008 - Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals, applications, and top end technology consulting for higher education, today announced it has been chosen by Johns Hopkins University to develop and deploy its new mobility theme based on uPortal, the open source enterprise portal for higher ed. The mobility theme is designed to enhance the functionality and content of its campus portal to make it accessible by mobile devices such as cell phones, SmartPhones, and PDAs and more useful to students, faculty, and administrators. The mobility development work and testing is scheduled to be completed and go live in the summer of 2008. Johns Hopkins University plans to donate the mobile development work back to the uPortal open source community. JA-SIG Releases uPortal 3.0.0-GA for Production Use The JA-SIG uPortal Project Steering Committee is extremely pleased to announce the release of uPortal 3.0, the next generation community source portal platform designed by and for the higher education community. The new release marks a major, evolutionary step forward for the award-winning project. Version 3.0 has brought the rock solid, high performing uPortal 2.x product to a new level, incorporating current best practices in enterprise Java. The entire uPortal community can unite on one branch moving forward, and it is now possible for everyone to migrate to the latest version of uPortal when appropriate for their institution. uPortal 3.0 builds upon the flexibility and reliability of uPortal 2.x while providing an attractive look and feel using improved JavaScript libraries, even more robust portlet support, a modern build environment, use of leading Java frameworks (Spring), and other enhancements, bringing the larger deployments and performance already achieved in uPortal 2 in easier reach of more uPortal adopters. JA-SIG Server Outage March 15th and 16th Due to scheduled down time, all sites on www.ja-sig.org, developer.ja-sig.org and www.uportal.org will be unavailable from 6pm Eastern Time, Saturday March 15th through 10pm Eastern Time, Sunday March 16th. This means that the wiki, issue tracker, web site, source, and downloads will be unavailable during this time frame. The mailing lists will be unaffected. If you have any questions or concerns about the outage please contact infrastructure@ja-sig.org Sorry for any inconvenience that may occur from this downtime. 170 Participants Attend Fifth ESUP-Portail Conference in Paris One hundred and seventy participants recently attended the "ESUP-Days" conference in Paris (Feb. 5, 2008) organized by the ESUP-Portail consortium. St. Paul, MN April JA-SIG Conference Seminars Announced JA-SIG is pleased to announce selection of pre- and post-conference seminars about open source software for the Spring 2008 JA-SIG conference to be held in St. Paul, Minnesota. Pre-conference events to be held on Sunday April 27th include tutorials on uPortal and DSpace upgrading; seminars on JavaScript and identity management; and hands-on introductions to Kuali Financials, Spring PortletMVC, Fedora repository, and CAS. Post-conference events on Wednesday April 30th include introductions to uPortal, Kuali Rice, and Sakai, as well as a half-day Bar Camp. Oh, and there will be a whole conference in between these seminars: more on that to come. In the meantime, sign up now to reserve your place in your seminars of choice. http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/ 2008 JA-SIG Spring Conference: St. Paul, MN, April 27-30 Please join us for the upcoming 2008 JA-SIG Spring Conference in St. Paul, Minnesota. The conference is being held April 27-30, 2007. Registration and call for proposals will be coming soon! Unicon's Ten New uPortal Projects at Universities Phoenix, AZ* – January 8, 2008 -- Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals, applications, and professional services for academic institutions, today announced that it has added ten new colleges and universities as uPortal customers during the second half of 2007. These institutions contracted with Unicon for a variety of services including deployment, accelerated development, application and system integration, administration training, consulting, and support through Unicon's Cooperative Support Program. uPortal 2.6.1 GA now available* uPortal 2.6.1 general audience release now available for download. Educause 2007 Award Video Featuring uPortal uPortal was showcased in an Educause session highlighting its receipt of the 2007 Catalyst Award and in an accompanying video. A Flash version of this video is available at http://www.educause.edu/awardsate07 Students Post Compelling MyUA Video University of Alaska students have posted a compelling video about their Luminis-implemented (uPortal-based) MyUA campus portal. Pearson Education Reaches Over One Million Students With JA-SIG's uPortal Educational Publisher Pearson Education's CourseCompass Product Provides Course Content to a Growing Community through JA-SIG's Award-Winning Portal The JA-SIG 2007 Unconference is Coming! Join us November 12th and 13th at Rutgers University for the first JA-SIG Unconference. Meet with your peers and the uPortal, CAS, JSR-168, Fluid, SpringMVC experts (among others!) CampusEAI Offers uPortal Training at University of Dundee (Scotland) CampusEAI's 5-Day, Training Course will cover uPortal and CAS topics. Unicon Announces September uPortal Administration Training at Sacramento State Unicon announced it will hold a three-day uPortal administration training at Sacramento State -- www.csus.edu/ -- this September 25-27, 2007. uPortal 2.6.0 released A general audience release of uPortal 2.6.0 is now available for download. This release includes many exciting improvements including drag-and-drop preferences, a div-centric-css-savvy default theme, improved JSR-168 support, DLM as default layout manager, and numerous bugfixes. ESUP-Days 4: 130 Participants Attend Fourth ESUP-Portail Conference in Paris One hundred and thirty participants recently attended the "ESUP-Days" conference in Paris (July 5, 2007) organized by the ESUP-Portail consortium. uPortal 2.6.0 RC2 Quick Start Now Available uPortal 2.6.0 RC2 quick-start release now available for download. SunGard HE Posts Statement Regarding Luminis Portal Strategy SunGard HE affirms ongoing support for uPortal while adding Oracle Portal as a future choice for Luminis clients uPortal Receives Prestigious EDUCAUSE Catalyst Award Princeton, NJ – June 25, 2007 – JA-SIG, the non-profit organization responsible for the uPortal community source enterprise portal, today announced that uPortal has received the prestigious EDUCAUSE Catalyst Award for its innovations and initiatives centered on information technologies that provide groundbreaking solutions to major challenges in higher education. uPortal 2.6.0 RC2 now available uPortal 2.6.0 release candidate 2 is now available for download from the uPortal website. uPortal 2.5.3.1 now available uPortal 2.5.3.1, a security patch release including a fix to a critical security vulnerability present in uPortal 2.5.3, is now available. Yale University Upgrades YaleInfo Yale University has successfully upgraded their uPortal instance to a pre-release of uPortal 2.6.0, proving in production Yale's contribution of more dynamic drag-and-drop user preferences technology. uPortal 2.6.0 RC1 now available uPortal 2.6.0 RC1 is now available for download. The many improvements in this release include: drag-and-drop preferences support, better JSR-168 preferences support, oodles of dependency upgrades. DormItem offering free uPortal Classifieds, branded for your school DormItem: College Classifieds Search Engine is offering uPortal administrators a free integration of the microregional classifieds system. Classifieds are a great tool to attract students to your portal, so they see important news and events that otherwise may be missed. DormItem builds a custom RSS feed to place in a portlet, which shows listings not just from your own school but neighboring campuses as well. The portlet then clicks through to a custom branded version of DormItem that matches your school colors. DormItem offers students free listings, safer trading with Rapleaf integration, and facebook integration. More info: view document attached. Contact info: Dan Scudder. dan@dormitem.com. Website: http://www.dormitem.com. uPortal 3 Developer Workshop Scheduled in April Time will be set aside on the Wednesday of the spring Developers Meeting (4/25) for uPortal 3 developer training and mentoring. We encourage anyone interested in learning more about uPortal framework development or beginning a uPortal 3 implementation to attend. Training will be conducted by some of the core uP3 developers. 2007 JA-SIG Summer Conference, Denver, June 24-27 Please join us for the upcoming 2007 JA-SIG Summer Conference at the in Denver, Colorado. The conference is being held June 24-27, 2007. Registration and call for proposals will be coming soon! Johns Hopkins University Sponsors uPortal Developer Conference Johns Hopkins University today announced its sponsorship of the Spring JA-SIG uPortal Developers Conference. This spring's conference will be held Monday and Tuesday, April 23 and 24, 2007, 9 AM to 4 PM each day. Developers are encouraged to stay for the remainder of the week (April 25 - 27) for an extended coding session. Portlets 2007 Conference Registration Open Registration for the Portlets 2007 Conference at The University of Montana is now open. The conference will be May 16-18. Registration for JA-SIG Members is offered at a discounted rate. Go to http://www.umt.edu/portlets2007/ for more information and to register. UBC_Webmail 3.2 Beta Now Available UBC_Webmail beta release 3.2 has been tagged in the CVS repository with tag "beta_release_3-2". It will be available for testing until 9 February 2007. Thanks to Paul Gazda, Holly Coast, and George Lindholm for their contributions to this release. uPortal 3 Release Candidate now available uPortal 3, the next generation open source enterprise portal, is now available for download. Institutions can immediately begin working with and testing the portal's latest frameworks and enhancements for their future planned rollouts and implementations. Unicon served as the chief architectural organization responsible for developing most of uPortal 3's technology framework enhancements and for delivering it to the uPortal open source community in its current state. CAMPUSEAI Consortium Announces Support For JA-SIG uPortal CLEVELAND September 13, 2006 CampusEAI Consortium (CEAI) today announced its support of JA-SIG uPortal. To support uPortal, CEAI provides access to the CEAI Vault, a repository of CEAI-supported community source channels for uPortal clients to decrease the risk, time and cost associated with their portal deployments and ongoing channel development. uPortal 2.5.3 now available uPortal 2.5.3 is now available. 2006 JA-SIG Winter Conference, Atlanta, Dec. 3-5 Please join us for the upcoming 2006 JA-SIG Winter Conference at the Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference is being held December 3rd, 2006 – December 5th, 2006. Registration and call for proposals will be coming soon! ESUP-Portail Conference Draws 220 Participants in Paris Two Hundred and twenty participants recently attended the "ESUP-Days" conference in Paris (22 and 23 June 2006) organized by the ESUP-Portail consortium. Power outage to disrupt access to JA-SIG web presense At Princeton, An extended computing service outage is planned from 7 p.m. Friday, June 9, through 6 a.m. Monday, June 12, 2006 to install a new electrical transformer. As a result, the JA-SIG home page, the uPortal home page, the developer.ja-sig.org site (CVS, Fisheye, Luntbuild, etc), and the clearinghouse application will all be down that entire weekend. Tim Bray to speak at JA-SIG Summer, 2006 Conference Tim Bray, directory of web technologies at Sun Microsystems is scheduled to speak at the JA-SIG Summer, 2006 Conference. uPortal Requirements Call-to-Action The JA-SIG Board of Directors extends an open invitation to participate in the evolution of the next generation uPortal. uPortal Administration Training Available Unicon is offering uPortal Administration Training at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona on May 2 - 4, 2006. The training is targeted to Web site/portal administrators and IT personnel. JA-SIG Summer, 2006 Conference June 4-6, 2006 The Westin Bayshore in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Information is now available regarding registration and accommodations. uPortal Developers Meeting The Spring uPortal Developers Meeting is being hosted at Rutgers University, March 27-31. New JA-SIG Clearinghouse goes live The JA-SIG is pleased to announce the new JA-SIG Clearinghouse. This clearinghouse is a digital repository whose purpose is to facilitate collaboration among the members of the JA-SIG. Please visit us and either make a contribution or review the existing content. For more information, see the ReadMe and FAQ documents on the clearinghouse website. JA-SIG Board Statement on uPortal December 10, 2005: JA-SIG Board releases statement on uPortal Strategic Direction Fall 2005 Developers Meeting September 19-20 @ IUPUI 2005wiki 2005winter December 4-6, 2005, Austin, Texas. Followed by the Sakai conference December 7-9, 2005. uPortal 2.4.3.1 released uPortal 2.5.1 released uPortal version 2.5.1 general audience release now available