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CALL: JASIG 2010’s Deadline Extended

New York, NY  The proposal deadline for Jasig’s March 2010 conference has been extended until Wednesday, November 25th.  If you are doing innovative work in technology for higher education, the organizers 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 […]

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Shining a Light on Cloud Computing for Higher Ed

Earlier this month EDUCAUSE 2009 was held in the midst of concern over shrinking budgets and increasing IT needs at institutions of higher education. Several sessions and many conversations centered around how to take advantage of economies represented by new technologies such as cloud computing and distributed communication tools.
This interest was reflected in a “Point […]

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FeSL: Community Funding Model to Develop an Enhanced Fedora Security Layer

Charlottetown, PEI, Canada In 2008, the Fedora team released Fedora v3 which included many notable changes, although one area where there was not much change was authentication and authorization. There have been many requests from the Fedora user community for a wider range of authentication methods, a simpler approach to security and better management and […]

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