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See you at JASIG 2009

By Andrew Petro
February 11, 2009

I see that the JASIG 2009 discounted hotel room rate has been extended through Friday February 13th and that early registration rates have been extended as well.

I am very much looking forward to the conference program, which besides presentations I'm directly involved in on getting started with uPortal and on Shibbolizing uPortal and delegated (what CAS calls "proxy") authentication with Shibboleth, will also include presentations on CAS, Sakai, Grouper, DSpace, Fedora, Kuali, and OpenRegistry.

I hope to see you there. The JASIG conference is also an opportunity to meet up with several of my compatriots from Unicon, including:

  • Jen Bourey, a software developer who will be presenting on use of JavaScript in uPortal 3, the Fluid Reorderer, and on automating uPortal configuration and deployment
  • Lennard Fuller, a software architect who will be presenting on JPA and CMS standards
  • Cris Holdorph, a software architect who will be giving presentations on Terracotta
  • John Lewis, Unicon's Chief Software Architect, who will be giving presentations on Spring Portlet MVC, JSR-286, and open source licensing
  • Adam Rybicki, Unicon's Vice President of Technology, who will be giving presentations on CAS
  • Gary Thompson, an interaction designer who has been very active in the Fluid project and will be presenting on design, skinning, and co-presenting with Jen on use of JavaScript in uPortal 3
  • Kate Valenti, a project manager involved in many successful uPortal efforts including projects at Fort Lewis College and at Sacramento State
  • Andrew Wills, a software architect who has spearheaded development and improvement of uPortal's features for importing and exporting data and configuration

So, if you're coming to the conference, I hope that you'll find a Uniconer who is up for the conversations you'd like to have. If you're not yet coming to the conference, I hope it's not too late for you to consider coming, given the extensions to the hotel and registration discounts. If you're not able to attend the conference, I hope you will find value in conference materials posted afterward and the sorts of ongoing rich asynchronous opportunities to interact afforded by open source collaboration.

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Andrew Petro

After graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science from Yale University in 2004, Andrew stayed on to serve his alma mater as a casual systems programmer with the Technology & Planning group. His interests include automated software testing, application frameworks, and electronic security. Projects in which Andrew has been involved include the Central Authentication Service, YaleInfo Portal (Yale's uPortal implementation). and the Jasig uPortal project. Andrew currently serves on the Jasig CAS steering committee, has been the release engineer for uPortal, and has been published in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery on the topic of electronic voting. In spring 2006 Andrew joined Unicon full time, serving roles since then including technical lead and Cooperative Support developer.