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EDUCAUSE Community Source Reception

At the Community Source reception cosponsored by JA-SIG, Sakai, Kuali it was uplifting to see the number of people participating. CIOs, managers, developers, vendors were all present in abundance. It was also clear from conversation at the reception that open-source in the Higher Ed is breaking into new areas. While there’s no question infrastructure and ...

Sakai Conference: Portal Options

Chuck Sev. is doing a demo of some of the new features that have been ported into Charon Portal in trunk. Additional hooks in Ian’s new portal Impl support multiple Velocity ### Features * **Hierarchy** – sub sites, **NO INHERITED AUTHORIZATION**, velocity templated * **Single Tool View** – edit Page order, and the toolbar/nav disappears ...

Sakai Conference: Content Hosting & Resources

Ian’s talking about plug-able back-end implementations for ContentHosting and the Resources tool. Looks like a VFS type layer that should support adding arbitrary backing stores – the example he gave was DSpace, but people are talking about other stores like AFS, iTunes, etc. One of the comments that’s come up during the discussion is how ...

ongoing · OpenID at Work

ongoing · OpenID at Work – This caused a GIGANTIC thread on the identity-gang list that got back to the question of implicit authorization off of an authentication source. I know when I was looking at Rutgers IdM infrastructure, assumptions about what having a credential meant was a serious barrier to then expanding issuing of ...

YouTube Obeys Fake Takedown Request From 15 Year Old

YouTube Obeys Fake Takedown Request From 15 Year Old : “Want a video removed from YouTube? Send along a fake takedown notice pretending to be from the copyright holder. At least, it’s a prank that worked for a 15 year old from Perth, Australia, who sent a signed form to YouTube pretending to be from ...