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Elliott: A couple approaches: (a) See if Tim's patch re UP-1040 will work. (b) delete the Pluto 1.0.1 jar and find the red wavy lines in Eclipse 
Mavenizing uPortal-related projects
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Eric now has a page on the wiki about how to do this "Using Maven for your JA-SIG project"
For example, you can attach skin and style information to the Maven-generated web site so Eric created a standard for what it looks like.
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Elliott: We have five portlets that use Maven.
[ afternoon break ]
uPortal and the FLUID Project
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by Colin Clark
Poor usability and accessibility are a significant barrier for community source
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Our goal is to incrementally improve the overall user experience of Sakai, uPortal, Kuali Student, and Moodle.
CrossThis is a cross-project collaboration
Social: Build a community aroud UX [User experience]
Technical: new UI development tools
, a partnership among several universities and corporations
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IBM, Sun and Mozilla Foundation [all with corporations are providing hardware and cash not their seats]
Broad range of experience
The goals are
Social: Build a community aroud UX [= User eXperience]
Technical: new UI development tools
The process is
- Start with a heuristic and
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- usability reviews
- Establish a baseline for usabillity and accessibility
- Know where we need to improve
- Prioritize the pain points
Designer's Toolkit: shared design resources
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Scenarios
UI Design patterns (presenter considers this the best book: Jennifer Tidwell, Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design from O'Reilly, 2005.)
U-Camps
Iterative UI design and testing
Colin showed and spoke about a flowchart "Component Lifecycle" the process that will be taken w.r.t. with respect to each platform.
Presentation Technologies:
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A new component framework built specifically to improve usability
Esay Easy to wire up new components or customoze customize properties of existing ones
Components are more than widgets
FLUID in a Portal enviromentsenvironment
Components capture recurring patterns
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