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April 23-27, 2007
Attendees
Eric Dalquist University of Wisconsin - Madison
Chris Doyle
Colin Clark University of Toronto, FLUID Project
Elliott Metsger
Dwight Raum Michael Oltz -- Cornell
Jonathan Markow -- JA-SIG
Chris Doyle -- Johns Hopkins
Elliott Metsger -- Johns Hopkins
Dwight Raum -- Johns Hopkins
Theron Feist -- Johns Hopkins (Tuesday only)
Phil Genuzzi -- Johns Hopkins
Andrew Petro Unicon, Inc.
Jonathan Markow JA-SIG
Jen Bourey Yale
Susan Bramhall Yale
Jason Shao -- Rutgers University (Tuesday only)
Colin Clark -- University of Toronto, FLUID Project
Michelle D'Souza -- University of Toronto, FLUID Project
Peter Kharchenko -- Unicon, Inc.
Michael Oltz Cornell
Jason Shao Rutgers University Partial Attendance (Tue) Andrew Petro -- Unicon, Inc.
Eric Dalquist -- University of Wisconsin - Madison
Jen Bourey -- Yale
Susan Bramhall -- Yale
by video at Boston UniversityAmir
Rashid Kim Il Soo -- Boston University via VideoSOO IL KIM Boston University (Sakai) via Video(Sakai)
Amir Rashid -- Boston University
Peggy Wang -- Boston University via VideoDan Ellentuck (Columbia)
by video at Rutgers via Video
Faizan Ahmed -- Rutgers via Video
Dan Ellentuck -- Columbia University
MONDAY APRIL 23
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Future options for conferences and meetings
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by Jonathan Markow
presently 2 conferences a year
June conference is uPortal -- has become more inclusive
December -- broader scope, tools, middleware, technology in general. not as well attended, although the people who attend get a lot out of it.
JA-SIG has been losing money on the conferences, because they used to be sponsored by Sun Microsystems. They have dropped back on the sponsorship. Can't continue to run the conference that way.
Suggested Board suggests for December, a different format to lower the conference management costs. What do the people here think:
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December -- "JA-SIG face to face" or "JA-SIG working sessions" -- focus on working out issues on specific projects, etc.--
- hosted at an institution rather than a hotel
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- less need to manage proposals and registration
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- minimal "track leads"
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- have activities organized across: e.g. uPortal developers; coding sessions; bar camps; bug fixing marathons; documentation marathons ["they would need extra beer"]; HyperContent; sakai/uportal collaboration; put together grant proposals; board could get together; training; i.e. various self-organizing groups
This would be less costly, would need an overall organizer/program chair; and leads by kind of activity.
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Susan: I think having them more often by video would keep things more on track.
[Rutgers video they was not going when we began; they have now arrived and introduced themselves]
uPortal 3 Status Update
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by Eric Dalquist
Elliott, David DeWolfe, Eric, and Peter met and changed uPortal 3 over to Pluto 1.1 (a significant change). Got abot 25,000 lines smaller because 1.1 had those things built in.
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