Informative Sessions on Central Authentication Service (CAS), EQUELLA, and uPortal
Gilbert, AZ – May 22, 2018— Unicon, Inc., a leading technology consulting, services, and support provider for the education industry, will be leading and participating in a total of 11 technical workshops, presentations, and showcase demos at the upcoming Open Apereo 2018 conference in Montréal, Québec, Canada, June 3-7, 2018. Five open source software developers, architects, and engineers from Unicon will present on a variety of Apereo Foundation projects for the online campus, with topics including open source application deployment, development, and support.
Open Apereo is the premier conference for open source software in education. Unicon Apereo community members will present on the current project states of open source webSSO software, Central Authentication Service (CAS), and uPortal, the leading open source enterprise portal built by and for higher education institutions. Unicon will also give an introduction to EQUELLA, a digital repository that provides a single platform to house teaching/learning, research, media, and library content.
Unicon has a notable involvement in the Apereo open source projects. Unicon shares its latest progress on open source projects at Open Apereo to help the community keep abreast of project developments and aid in project collaboration.
About Open Apereo
The Open Apereo conference provides participants the opportunity to share their institutional experiences and learn from their colleagues, and to develop an understanding of other areas of the academic enterprise they may not be familiar with. The conference is held every year with the intent to help attendees network, grow, share, and learn from each other.
About Apereo
The Apereo Foundation exists to help educational institutions collaborate to develop, use and sustain open source software for learning, teaching and research. It is a membership organization, with members on four continents. Membership ranges from community colleges to major research-intensive institutions. Apereo currently supports nineteen software solutions, which are listed at www.apereo.org . The Apereo Foundation is a non-profit corporation registered in New Jersey.
