201003 - uPortal Steering Committee

uPortal Documentation

Andrew Petro and Jen Bourey recently pulled together an updated Frequently Asked Questions page for uPortal on the Jasig website at http://www.jasig.org/uportal/documentation/faq. This serves as a great introduction for those who want to find out about uPortal features, community, and licensing. We are working on further improvements to the web site highlighting what makes uPortal unique.

Work is also coming along on the uPortal 3.2 Manual on the Jasig wiki at http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPM32/. Jen Bourey is heading up that effort and is initially focusing on documenting what has changed or is new with uPortal 3.2. For the time being, information that has not changed can be referenced in prior manuals. If you have suggestions about what you would like to see in the manual, please comment on the related Jira issue at http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/browse/UP-2522.

uPortal Community Call

On April 15th we held our third uPortal Community Call (see http://www.slideshare.net/uportal). Jen Bourey went over the latest development efforts on both the uPortal 3.2 and the upcoming uPortal 3.3. She also led a discussion regarding what the community would like to see when it comes to integrating Content Management Systems (CMS) with uPortal. There seems to be interest in having a lightweight, built in CMS tool as well as the ability to inegrate with other existing CMS systems on campus. We encourage you to add your thoughts and use cases on this subject to teh wiki at http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/uom8AQ.

Due to problems with the Adobe Connect hosting, a number of attendees were unable to view the screen cast. This also prevented Erik Olsson from demonstrating an innovative student check list portlet in use at the University of California Irvine. We are looking forward to that demo as part of the next uPortal Community Call at 11:30 ET on Thursday, May 13th.