uPSC Newsletter Contribution - 2008-10 (use this one)

Initiatives from the Unconference

There were a number of lively uPortal-related discussions at the Fall JASIG Unconference. Various participants discussed plans for bundling portlets with the uPortal distributions, implementing an active document caching tool for use by the portal, ERP integration and redesigning some of the administrative tools using techniques and libraries from the Fluid project.

uPortal 3 Upgrades

The University of Wisconsin-Madison became the latest institution to upgrade to uPortal 3. Tuesday morning they seamlessly switched to upgraded servers without a service outage. Within 24 hours 22,000 people logged in and page response rates averaged less than 1 second.

Institutions planning on upgrading or deploying uPortal 3 within the next few months include Yale University, Southern Utah University, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and University of California, Merced. Those considering or actively working on uPortal 3 implementations are encouraged to log their progress at http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/vQXP.