uMobile open calls

We held our first open community call on Thursday 3 October 2013. We had a great attendance of more than 12 schools and a wide ranging conversation about everything mobile. One of the outputs from this was a snapshot of mobile strategies and technologies. 

The second call will take place on Thursday 7 November at 11AM Eastern. The topics for the agenda are:

1. Improvements needed for uMobile
2. Consideration of PhoneGap as a native client
3. Client as a web service
4. Responsive design

Notes & Action items from Thursday, November 7, 2013

The third call will take place on Thursday 5 December at 11AM Eastern. The topics for the agenda are:

1. Oakland Phone Gap demo
2. Roadmap
   1. See uMobile Roadmap

The fourth call will take place on Thursday 9 January at 11AM Eastern. The topics for the agenda are:

1. Apereo Unconference planning (see http://www.apereo.org/content/2014-apereo-unconference-az)
2. Community primary contact volunteer
3. Everyone's 2014 plans for mobile

Call 5 - Thursday 6 February at 11AM Eastern. This call will catch up on conversations held at Apereo Camp last week. As discussed on 9 January these topics were expected to include:

1. Roadmap
2. Strategy
3. Development practices
4. The relationship with the Responder uPortal layout and how it affects portlets not bundled with uPortal

Call 6 - Thursday 6 March at 11AM Eastern. Suggested agenda:

1. Actions items from Apereo Camp
2. Oakland's latest app store submission
3. Feedback from Oakland on the Enterprise Mobile App Conference
4. How to make the most of the Conference

Call 7 - Thursday 3 April at 11AM Eastern. Suggested agenda:

1. Oakland's latest app store submission
2. Feedback from Oakland on the Enterprise Mobile App Conference
3. How to make the most of the Conference - what has everyone submitted?
4. uMobile PhoneGap in the long run? (any thoughts on https://lists.wisc.edu/read/messages?id=32972889?)

Call 8 - Thursday 1 May at 11AM Eastern. Suggested agenda:

1. How to make the most of the Conference
   1. Successful proposals?
   2. What meeting space do we need? Is shared space (e.g. multiple round tables) OK?
2. Who will deliver the 7 minute uMobile lightning talk on Monday (10:30-11:45)? Previous slide deck (along with uPortal) is at https://speakerdeck.com/jimhelwig/uportal-and-umobile-lightning-talk-open-apereo-2013

Meeting 9 - Wednesday 4 June at Apereo Conference

New uMobile definition: mobile uPortal client and specific extensions for the mobile platform.

Liberating portal services via web services - start with search - helps define a pattern of access for future services to unlock. Oakland to work on the native app, UW-Madison to look at the portal service unlocking.

Other services: notifications, app customisation (market place), favorites, map portlets, courses

App platforms - are we looking for a single development platform? This would be ideal in terms of focusing resources, but not certain how realistic this is. We need to build services to empower people to build clients. 

Switch to Google Hangouts from Calliflower, have monthly calls, move conversations to the list where possible. 

Revisit the organisation of the wiki. What about the website? Oakland to write up native, Misagh PhoneGap pages.