2012-03-21 Incubation Call

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Attending: Susan, Tuy, Benito, Cris, Tim, Patty
Absent: Steve

Incubation responsibilities wrt GIT

The incubation group has access to manage projects in GitHub. See Git Hosting wiki page. How do we get permissions to complete tasks when needed? Give user info to Eric is you haven't done so yet. FOLLOW UPSusan contact Eric to verify group membership and permission.

Incubation for new organization

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New Project requesting incubation

ID	Name	Date requested	Comments
INC-43	maven-notice-plugin	30/Jan/12	I believe this is a duplicate of INC-31 which we decided to make an unsponsored contribution to avoid governance issues. Obviously Eric is confused by this but hasn't answered my email. Need closure or readmit to incubation. FOLLOW UP Tuy will create JIRA project.
INC-44	Student Success Plan	16/Mar/12	This is a new project that developed by Sinclair Community College and led by Russ Little. It has become more successful than they can manage as a product and they have an Educause grant to take it open source. They would like to graduate from incubation by July. FOLLOW UPSusan will be assignee. Susan accept and welcome. Cris will help if needed.

Incubator Status

ID	Name	Assignee	Project Lead	March Status and Comments
INC-28	Confluence Portlet and Plugin	Benito J. Gonzalez	James Kionka	Haven't heard in last month. Technical happening in January. Benito will talk to team soon.
INC-6	Bookmarks Portlet	Benito J. Gonzalez	Eric Dalquist	CLA is now filed. Still remaining issue to get licensing correct. Recommend to board that go ahead and sponsor.
INC-42	Notification Portlet: A portlet for providing notification for upcoming tasks or events..	Benito J. Gonzalez	Landis Casner	Repository created. JIRA space created. Portlets don't have separate web presence. Incubation document needs to clarify what is Web presence. Cris will send email to incubation list with clarification reflecting current possible practice.
INC-15	Content Management Portlet	Cris Holdorph	Misagh Moayyed	Misagh updated Cris with status. It appears active but no specific progress changes.
INC-26	Spring Portlet MVC JSR-168 Archetype	Cris Holdorph	Charles Frank	email sent, March 19. Unable to reach him. FOLLOW UPSusan contact him about availability and interest in pursuing.
INC-7	Functional Tests Portlet	Cris Holdorph	Eric Dalquist	email sent, March 19. No reply.
INC-38	Exchange Mail and Calendar Portlet	Cris Holdorph	Charles Frank	Code added to https://github.com/cpfrank/Exchange-Portlet
INC-23	Sakai connector	Steve Swinsburg	Steve Swinsburg
INC-40	Basic LTI Portlet	Steve Swinsburg	Steve Swinsburg
INC-9	OpenRegistry	Susan Bramhall	Benn Oshrin	OR is active in OSIDM4HE group. UBC and UCSF are evaluating OR.
INC-36	uMobile, A Native Mobile App for uPortal	Susan Bramhall	Jennifer Bourey	U of Chicago will probably be the first production deployment. Not quite there but soon. Others are in the pipeline (UW) Ohio may be first because U of Chicago is paused on Blackberry. ESUP-Portail also heavily committed to using uMobile enhanced. Trying to get collaboration going smoothly.
INC-22	Deployer Portlet	tim carroll	Andy Gherna
INC-27	Xythos Portlet and Plugin	tim carroll	James Kionka
INC-35	ThinkSpace	tim carroll	Pete Boysen	Upcoming a 4 hour "visioning meeting" for Thinkspace to discuss ThinkSpace2.0 with faculty. This would be a major redesign of the interface to improve ease of use and functionality. I am hopeful this will be an App-structured interface (apps might include Assignments, Announcements, etc.) rather than the typical website-oriented structure we have now and present in most LMSes. An app-structured would be easier to use and could provide better integration with LMSes and portals. 20 students in an HCI course are studying ThinkSpace for the semester using UX principles to define audience, functionality, market etc. These students are from around the country and many are professionals. Two grants have been submitted to NSF: one to run the CIRTL network with hopes of integrating features of ThinkSpace into their network ($3.5M). The other is a "CyberLearning: Transforming Education" grant to advance the feedback and peer-review options of ThinkSpace ($1.6M). They have hired a part-time programmer to assist in development of new functionality for the HTML Editor (CKEditor which is also used in SAKAI). They now have an official website: www.thinkspace.org (Note the reference to JASIG)
INC-17	Widget Portlets	Tuyhang Ly	Jennifer Bourey	FOLLOW UPSteve Swinsburg will take this over. All it needs is one official release.
INC-16	Search Portlet	Tuyhang Ly	Jennifer Bourey	Jen wants to drop this. Susan asked on lists for opinions on this, here are some responses: Paul Gazda said "General web searching is now easily accessible in most browsers, so the Google search would not be a useful addition at this time" Jen believes that "the search API is also becoming paid-only, further reducing its usefulness". FOLLOW UP Retire from incubation.
INC-37	Scheduling Assistant	Tuyhang Ly	Nicholas Blair	Susan asked on lists whether there are any adopters, but no response so far. Maybe RPI.
INC-41	People Soft HR Integration Portlets	Tuyhang Ly	Eric Dalquist	Not much progress. Reached out to Eric for updates. Source codes have not been committed yet.

Prior Status

ID	Name	Assignee	Project Lead	January Status / Comments
INC-28	Confluence Portlet and Plugin	Benito J. Gonzalez	James Kionka	No updates from project lead since September.
INC-6	Bookmarks Portlet	Benito J. Gonzalez	Eric Dalquist	No response from Jean-Pierre Tran on CLA. The remaining licensing problem for tags is probably a configuration issue. Will investigate.
INC-42	Notification Portlet: A portlet for providing notification for upcoming tasks or events..	Benito J. Gonzalez	Landis Casner	Source code was moved to portlets.
INC-15	Content Management Portlet	Cris Holdorph	Misagh Moayyed
INC-26	Spring Portlet MVC JSR-168 Archetype	Cris Holdorph	Charles Frank
INC-7	Functional Tests Portlet	Cris Holdorph	Eric Dalquist
INC-38	Exchange Mail and Calendar Portlet	Cris Holdorph	Charles Frank
INC-23	Sakai connector	Steve Swinsburg	Steve Swinsburg	Still need to get source into github.
INC-40	Basic LTI Portlet	Steve Swinsburg	Steve Swinsburg	Still need to get source into github.
INC-9	OpenRegistry	Susan Bramhall	Benn Oshrin	Query out via email 1/18
INC-36	uMobile, A Native Mobile App for uPortal	Susan Bramhall	Jennifer Bourey	Very close to live deployments and good press recently. Hopeful of promotion to sponsored project in the next month or two.
INC-39	Simple RSS Portlet	Susan Bramhall	Steve Swinsburg	I will terminate incubation in favor of efforts on the NewsReaderPortlet. This will remain an unsponsored contribution (since the docs are already in confluence )
INC-22	Deployer Portlet	tim carroll	Andy Gherna	none.
INC-27	Xythos Portlet and Plugin	tim carroll	James Kionka	Brought it's libraries up to date and started writing documentation on how to get the necessary files out of a Xythos installation.
INC-35	ThinkSpace	tim carroll	Pete Boysen	Lawyer - no news, languishing in legal somewhere A lot of traffic lately from two faculty groups writing NSF grants which involve Thinkspace: CIRTL (http://www.cirtl.net/) is an NSF funded project already in existence to provide STEM learning in Higher ed. The first 6 universities cobbled together a number of technologies (Moodle, Drupal etc.) and would like a university to take over the IT infrastructure as it grows. We are building the budget now which currently is $4.3M for 5 years (will probably be pared). This would provide me some full-time help and allow me to work full-time on Thinkspace. This is an unsolicited grant but it already has a program manager which usually means it is very likely to be funded if we can get the numbers to work out. NSF Cyberlearing grant (http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11587/nsf11587.pdf): $1.6M to enhance Thinkspace with team-based learning and improved feedback tools. I would get two full-time programmers for 4 years.
INC-17	Widget Portlets	Tuyhang Ly	Jennifer Bourey	Steve will take this over. All it needs is one official release.
INC-16	Search Portlet	Tuyhang Ly	Jennifer Bourey	Jen wants to drop this. Susan will send email to portlet user list and incubation list for opinions
INC-37	Scheduling Assistant	Tuyhang Ly	Nicholas Blair	Susan ask on lists whether there are any adopters
INC-41	People Soft HR Integration Portlets	Tuyhang Ly	Eric Dalquist	Eric has refactored code and will put into GIT so waiting on that.