[cas-dev] Call for Nominations for the JASIG CAS Steering Committee

[David Whitehurst]

Scott:

I haven't been around CAS very long but I would love to be on the CAS
steering committee.  I would be a JA-SIG member if I could personally
afford it.  My company is still small, but I'm working on that.  It's
tough when the company is just me.  (I must learn to teach ... teach
.. yes pass the torch ... LOL)

Years ago, I did SSO implementations for various clients and
BouncyCastle was one of the JCE pieces I used for VW and Audi and man
was it tough to please everyone.  I came up with several good
solutions on my own but timing didn't allow completions of those.
Marc Fleury hooked me up with Ivan Ivenilov in Texas to be part of the
JBoss security team, but I ended up going to Oklahoma City to work for
CIBER.  I'm using CAS now for the state of North Carolina and fighting
an opposition to open source and Linux vs. Windows.  I was hired to
implement JBoss for all Java applications and use JAAS security.  I
still think CAS is "THE" solution to Enterprise authentication.  SSO
is nice but the common authentication is a trend setter.  The
development community should have user/password police that punish
developers that continue to use system property files and unique
user/password checking per application.  No vision :-)

I copied my bio from my personal site

About Me (David L. Whitehurst)

I am a Java EE professional with 24 years of IT experience. I've
developed software from Fortran to Ruby on Rails. I prefer Java. I
have led the development of projects as team leader and architect.
I've also managed software development in the US and Pakistan. I
recently formed a company Cape Henry Technologies Inc. in Oklahoma and
now work through my company for the state of North Carolina. I am a
solutions provider and thrive on providing solid architecture and then
delivering implementations to these designs.

I have three primary professional goals:

- Use open source solutions to perform Enterprise business implementations
- Listen attentively to my clients and clearly understand their needs
- Provide only the best quality solutions for my clients

Thanks too for your help when I've needed it.

David


On 7/28/08, Scott Battaglia <scott.battaglia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear CAS Community,
>
> Due to the time constraints of attempting to seed the Steering Committee
> before the JASIG UnConference, we're going to be running the call for
> nominations as well as the request for comments for the governance model at
> the same time.  Therefore, consider this a request for provisional
> nominations, pending the approval of the Steering Committee by the JASIG
> board.
>
> If you would like to be considered for the JASIG CAS Steering Committee,
> please submit your name, a short bio, as well as a platform statement (i.e.
> what you hope to accomplish, or where you see CAS going, etc.) to me via
> email.  Nominations are open to anyone (you can nominate yourself and you do
> not have to be a JASIG member).  You can nominate someone, but please check
> with them first ;-)  Just a note that the current voting model states that
> anyone can run but only JASIG members will be able to cast votes.  We'll be
> announcing more details about the voting process as we get closer (and we
> get approval)
>
> Tentatively, pending approval of the governance model at the upcoming JASIG
> Board meeting we envision the period for nominations to end on August 22,
> 2008 @ 12 pm Eastern time.
>
> I look forward to receiving your nominations!
> -Scott
>
> -Scott Battaglia
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