Many uPortal developers and deployers gathered in scenic New Brunswick for the Rutgers-hosted JA-SIG UnConference. Fun, comradery, user experience design, and working code were enjoyed by many. ~awp9 Andrew Petro especially appreciated becoming more aware of Fluid resources in support of uPortal development and the positively influential role Fluid is playing in current uPortal efforts. While some Fluid developers and designers came to the conference already well acquainted with uPortal, for others the UnConference served as an intense introduction to JA-SIG culture. Others were particularly excited about the prospect of sharing more portlets via project incubation and improved Clearinghouse-like listings discussed at this event, Drew Wills' import-export tooling further demonstrated and shared, and the production deployment of the UW-Madison Web Proxy Portlet into additional portals beyond Wisconsin.
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Progress on the newly defined uPortal 3 continues rapidly, with . Susan Bramhall and Dan Ellentuck updated uPortal 3 to use the stand-alone Person Directory API and are continuing to do the same for the Groups and Permissions APIs. Pluto 1.1 integration is the only required remaining feature . (before a release candidate and good progress is being made. Of course, uPortal 3 will be even better if it can contain any of a number of available optional features, which will be more or less included depending on involvement of additional developers. It is never too late to jump in on uportal-dev@ to -dev@lists.ja-sig.org and get involved with development.