The Fall 2007 Fluid Summit was well attended, Eric Dalquist and Gary Thompson were there in person and Susan Bramhall and Jen Bourey participated through video conference. The summit was productive and resulted in the start of work on integrating the Fluid reorderer component into uPortal as the client side for the Drag & Drop layout management framework contributed by Yale for uPortal 2.6. The goal is to have the reorderer integrated for the uPortal 3.0 release this winter.
Since the previous newsletter, uPortal has released a second release candidate of uPortal 2.6.1, correcting issues in offline deployment of JSR-168 portlets in the otherwise improved portlet deployment tool in uPortal 2.6.0, as well as correcting several other small bugs.
Increasingly, uPortal developers are discussing and collaborating in an IRC chat room hosted by freenode. Connection information and logs are available in the wiki.