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Open Planning - Gather requirements and use an open process to advance the uPortal framework
Sharing the load - enable collaboration, resource sharing and expertise transfer for planning and implementing requirements
Limiting local forks - ease contributing local modifications/enhancements into the base uPortal framework
Harness the community - Involve large & small institutions, vendors, and individuals

Deliverables

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Development plans are expressed in 6 month roadmaps solidified at the semi-annual developer meetings detailing:

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Target Dates	Task	Status
Feb 06	Start with seed of core institutions and players Rutgers, UW, VT, Yale, Texas Tech, Unicon, SCT, ESUP Portail, JA-SIG UK, Nagoya	in progress
March 06	Seed library with lists	in progress
Spring Dev Meeting	Follow up at uP developers meeting initial vision statement collection collection of core institution contributed requirements initial roadmap documenting developer meeting plans and commitments	in progress
May 06	Put out for community review before JA-SIG conference refined initial vision statement collection organized & filtered core institution contributed requirements
Summer uPortal Conference	Solicit contributions and feedback at JA-SIG 2006 Summer Conference Keynote mention Moderated discussion session Gather feedback and items from BOF sessions
July 06	incorporate conference contributions and feedback vision statement collection incorporating conference contributions requirements library incorportaing incorporating conference contributions
Fall Dev Meeting	use to build roadmap at Fall developers meeting
Winter JA-SIG Conference	Update requirements library and gather information on community priorities and needs/requests

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Informal group of experts and leaders. Possible responsibilies responsibilities include:

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