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uPortal Project Steering Committee

uPortal Project Steering Committee

Sept 14, 2010

Current uPortal Project Steering Committee

Elected by the JA-SIG membership

  • Erik Olsson, University of California - Irvine
  • Laura McCord, Southwestern University

Selected by the uPortal developers

  • Eric Dalquist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Jen Bourey, Unicon

Representing the Jasig Board

  • Jim Helwig, University of Wisconsin at Madison (Chair)
  • Jonathan Markow, Jasig Executive Director (ex-officio committee member)

uPortal Project Steering Committee Process

Purpose

Serve as the governing body responsible for the strategic direction and operational oversight of the uPortal project.  Act as an advocate for the project.



Responsibilities

  • Capture requirements for uPortal functionality* Determine priority of deliverables for releases* Determine resource needs
  • Partner with institutions, commercial affiliates, and other community source projects to recruit, acquire, develop resources from the community* Assist in grant proposals on behalf of the project
  • Prioritize the use of external funds that have been allocated to the project
  • Monitor progress towards releases
  • Communicate regularly to the Jasig Board

 


Composition

  • One Jasig Board Director, or appointee of the Jasig Board
  • Two uPortal developers selected by the current group of uPortal committers
  • Three community stakeholders will be elected by the Jasig Membership
  • Additional stakeholders may be added as working members, if approved by the committee
  • Executive Director as ex officio member


 

Process

  • Committee will select its own chair, who will serve for two years
  • Committee will meet once per month.  Additional meetings to be arranged by agreement of the committee
  • Committee Chair will discuss project status with the JA-SIG Executive Director monthly
  • Elections of stakeholder participants will be held once a year prior to the annual JA-SIG Membership Meeting
  • Stakeholders will serve for two years
  • Election process will mirror that of JA-SIG Board, with each Member organization casting the same number of votes as the number of open positions
  • Stakeholder nominees need not be associated with Member organizations, may be self-nominated, and may be nominated by a non-Member