** 10:15-11:45 - Friday, June 1 2006 Community Source for Administrative Systems: Kuali Financials! Research Admin. and Student? Brad Wheeler, Charles Leonhardt, Richard Spencer

This session will report on progress with three community source administrative system projects. Kuali Financials has released www.kualitestdrive.org as they prepare to release the core of the financial system in Q2 (Chart, GL, Transactions, Workflow, Basic Reports) and show a roadmap for the rest of the modules for 2007. A Research Administration Systems project is in its early stages of development. Finally, the session will report the results of the Mellon Planning Grant for a next Generation Student Services System based on a services-oriented architecture. These projects are following the community source model of Sakai in pooling institutional resources and requirements and then delivering open source software to a blended community of higher and commercial participants.

** 8:30-9:45 - Monday, June 5, 2006 JA-SIG Board Update JA-SIG Board of Directors Jonathan Markow, Ian Dolphin, Patty Gertz, Ted Dodds

Presentation The JA-SIG Board will present an update on the progress of current projects. In particular, last December the JA-SIG Board described plans for an effort to collect requirements for future releases of uPortal. The Board will discuss the status of that on-going initiative and the steps that we have taken to broaden the requirements-gathering process. Related topics, such as the Sakai/JA-SIG relationship and the recent Student Systems SOA investigations are also on the agenda. There will be ample time for questions and answers.

** 10:15-11:15 - Monday, June 5, 2006 SOA for Higher Education - A Conceptual Framework Stuart Sims, Chief Architect, Sun Microsystems

Presentation There is a lot of buzz in Higher Education about SOA. However, most people are still trying to get their arms around "the business benefits of SOA" and how to "sell" it to the non IT leadership on the campus. This session will cover: 1. Business imperative of implementing SOA in Higher Education. 2. Conceptual definition of SOA. 3. Building blocks of SOA.

** 11:30am-12:30pm - Monday, June 5, 2006 Community Source Student Services System Richard Spencer, Senior IT Strategist University of British Columbia and Leo Fernig, Project Manager, Student Systems University of British Columbia

Presentation The success of a number of community source enterprise solutions in higher-education (uPortal, Sakai, Kuali, OSPI), and interest in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), suggest development of a community source Student Services System (SSS). The University of British Columbia is actively involved in exploring this possibility (including an initial presentation at JA-SIG in Austin in December 2005, and an SOA workshop in Vancouver in March 2006). This presentation will review progress since our previous presentation with developing a vision, functional design, architecture and project management and implementation strategies for an SSS. Many of our ideas have evolved from our experiences at UBC in developing a custom J2EE SIS over the past six years. Our vision is for a student system with a strong focus on the end user and support for a wide variety of business processes, which also meets the needs of central administrative departments. It will be a flexible system that can be implemented in stages, can be configured to implement local academic and business practices, and can support processes that are shared with other departments and systems.

The system will be designed from the outset as a set of highly configurable and interoperable services. These services will be built on a common, open source/open standards infrastructure layer. An enterprise portal will provide a common user interface. Instead of hard coding a single set of "best practices" into the various modules, the new system will use rules engines in the infrastructure layer to allow different user groups (departments, faculties and universities) to incorporate "their practices", where these reflect specific local needs or conditions. This design will enable institutions to conduct business in radically different ways, not only in the traditional domains of Students Services, such as Recruitment, Admissions, Registration, etc., but also in related areas such as Athletics, Alumni, etc. The presentation will describe plans for an SOA implementation of this functional design. The Student Services System will be built on an SOA infrastructure based on current web service standards and technologies (UDDI, WSDL and SOAP).

From a conceptual point of view, the key to success in this area will be to define entities and service boundaries correctly. We are examining various strategies for achieving this design. These include: - evolving an existing code base (or parts of an existing code base) - building a suite of entirely separate components and products. Enterprise and business infrastructures will need to be developed in parallel with the development of the Student Services components. A Student Services System will be an extremely large project, and it needs to be undertaken in such a way that real products can be delivered in relatively rapid succession. This practical constraint will impact both the project management strategies and the logistics of design, development and implementation.

** 2:00-3:00

Monday, June 5, 2006 BOF Community Source Student Services System Discussion leader TBA

Presentation This session offers a discussion forum for those interested in a Community Source Student Services System, designed and built around the principles of Service-Oriented Architecture. Topics may include: Why community Source? Why SOA? The business case for a CSSSS Evolving to a "student-centric" Student Services System Current efforts and activities Standards and specifications * Related initiatives (OKI, IMS, JISC, PESC, AACRAO) The session may be of particular interest to those who attended the earlier presentation A Community Source Student Services System by Richard Spencer and Leo Fernig.

** 3:30-4:30

Monday, June 5, 2006 BOF Service Oriented Architecture in Higher Education Paul Zablosky, Senior Technical Analyst University of British Columbia

Presentation The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach to service development and delivery presents new challenges in technology, planning, governance and mindset. In this session we will explore the state of our institutions in their SOA infrastructure and service delivery. Do you have a plan for SOA infrastructure, platforms, and services at your institution? What technologies are you using or planning to use for your SOA infrastructure? What technologies are you using or planning to use for your business-oriented components? What services are you now delivering through SOA-based infrastructure?

• Where are your biggest SOA-related problems (infrastructure? business-process? governance?) What sort of SOA plumbing are you using or do you plan to use? How does SOA relate to Identity Management and Portal services at your institution? Have you implemented the SOA Web Services Basic Profile? How do see SOA as enabling inter-site cooperation and community projects?

Sakai/OSP Conference Website: http://sakaiproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=319&Itemid=527

uPortal Conference Website: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/06summer/index.html