uPortal Community Call July 22, 2010

July 22, 2010

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Agenda

• Introduction and Announcements

• uPortal and Portlet Development

• Documentation Strategy

• Yale University Portal Demo

• Questions and Open Discussion

Hold that thought…

Questions and discussion at the end

Additional feedback by email appreciated

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Introduction

uPortal Steering CommitteeElected by the Jasig membership

• Erik Olsson, University of California – Irvine

Selected by the uPortal developers

• Eric Dalquist, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Jen Bourey, Unicon

Representing the Jasig Board

• Jim Helwig, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair, board liason)

• Jonathan Markow, Jasig Executive Director (ex-officio member)

May Community Call

• Topics included

• uPortal Development Update

• University of California Irvine Portal Demo

• Archived on Slideshare

http://www.slideshare.net/uportal/

Announcements

2-3-98 Conference at SUNY Delhi - August 11-13

• "Technology During an Economic Crisis, The Benefits of Open Sourcing"

• www.delhi.edu/2-3-98

2010 Unconference

University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL

October 18 - October 21 Unconference

• Focused discussions on topics YOU want:Implementation, technologies, roadmap, deployment, …

October 21 - October 22 Developer Days

• Focused time working on project development:uPortal, portlets, documentation, your own deployment

Register now!

More info at http://bit.ly/jasigunconf2010

uPortal and Portlet Development

uPortal Update

Pluto 2 merged into trunk

• Still working on kinks before cutting 3.3 milestone

New URL syntax

• Mostly complete, a few bugs

• Syntax documented in wiki

Spring 3.0 in trunk

Portlet Development

CAS Proxy Test Portlet

• Improved configurability

• Included in 3.2.2 release

Web Proxy Portlet

• Improved Shibboleth support

Portlet Development

Simple Content Portlet

• New Jasig portlet

• Provides basic CMS capabilities in uPortal 3.2+

• Sponsored by Ryerson University under Unicon's Accelerated Development program

Features

• Content creation via WYSIWYG editor

• Portlet preferences persistence

• Configurable security and content validation

Portlet Development

Portlet Development

More information on the Simple Content Portlet

• Documentation and Configurationhttp://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/PLT/Simple+Content+Management+Portlet

• YouTube Demohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v_R2H8xYZM

See all our demos at http://www.youtube.com/uportal

Documentation Strategy

By Laura McCord

Documentation Licensing

Documentation now licensed under Apache 2

ICLAs are required for contributors

ICLAs requested from previous contributors

https://wiki.jasig.org/display/LIC/

Organizing Documentation

Separating installation from customization

Keep it simple

Start from the beginning and build upwards ensuring success from the start

Strategyhttps://wiki.jasig.org/display/UPC/Documentation+Migration

The Outlinehttps://wiki.jasig.org/display/UPC/Outline

Work in Progresshttps://wiki.jasig.org/display/UPM32/Home

Organizing Documentation

Separate the Manuals

Installation

Site Administration

Systems Administration

Development

Documentation Progress Weekly/Bi-Weekly Emails sent out on particular topics

Strategy: Keep focused & organized on one thing at a time

What do we need?

Proofreaders

Grammar, misspellings, etc..

Does it make sense or are you lost?

Does the documentation match the implementation?

Writers

Chicken scratch, notes, formal, informal, whatever....I'll edit it!

Get Involved Shy? Send anything to me directly...

[email protected]

Documentation Track – Unconference

Non-technical users can assist..we need you!!!

Help write...Site Administration Manual, Systems Administration Manual

Find the areas that need attention

Group together with others who have similar setups and attack a topic

We'll have experts on hand to be the editors if you have questions

Yale University DemoBy Mary Hunt

Open Discussion

The uPortal Steering [email protected]

The uPortal Steering Committee

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Feedback?

Suggestions?

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