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Mark - check in with the committee before publishing this. I have posted it here for us to edit and it may not be ready in time for the newsletter.

Community Documentation Effort

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uPortal

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What I would like to propose is a community documentation effort. We would create a clean wiki space in which we would ask community members who are closer to the initial implementation stage to put together a skeleton of a manual. Everyone would be encouraged to fill in content they can but the expectation would be that once the skeleton was under way the core developers would fill in the content and examples.

We're also looking for someone who would be interested in taking the lead in ongoing management of the documentation. Helping existing and new developers keep the documentation up to date, managing the organization and structure of the manual as it grows and matures. If you think you would be interested in this role email the uPortal steering committee: uportal-steering-committee@lists.ja-sig.org

If you have additional input or ideas for a uPortal manual or documentation please share them.

uPortal Community Call

Over 30 people participated in the first uPortal Community Call on Thursday, December 17th. The bulk of the call webinar was devoted to a review of the uPortal road map for 3.2 and beyond. Eric Dalquist and Jen Bourey detailed a number of planned features and updates. More information about the uPortal road map will be posted on the web soon.

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  • Helping with documentationContributing code
  • Collaborating on new portlets
  • Open sourcing your portlets
  • Sharing your portlets via screenshots, video demos, webinars
  • Helping with testing
  • Participating on the email lists

For those of you that were unable to attend, the presentation will be archived and slides from the presentation have been uploaded to http://www.slideshare.net/uportal. We hope to have archived audio available within a few weeks. You can also look forward to an announcement about the next uPortal Community Call. Finally, we would like to thank Johns Hopkins University for graciously hosting this recent call.