200906 - uPortal Steering Committee

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Last updated: Jun 24, 2009 by Andrew PetroVersion comment

uPortal Steering Committee Stakeholder Elections

The uPortal Steering Committee will be filling four stakeholder positions through elections held this Summer. If you are interested in serving as a community advocate for uPortal to help shape its growth, please nominate yourself using the instructions found elsewhere in this newsletter. The committee meets monthly by phone as well as in person at the conferences. This year the group will be undertaking an outreach initiative to proactively seek increased input from portal users, administrators, and managers. If you fell you can help speak as to how we might better address their needs, please consider running for a position on the committee.

uPortal 3.1 Technical Webinar

On May 21st, 2009, Unicon hosted a uPortal 3.1 Technical Webinar with Eric Dalquist, Developer at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and Lead Developer of the Jasig uPortal 3 project. This webinar was exceptionally popular in the community, with over 30 people in attendance.

This Technical Webinar educated viewers on:

  • What's new in uPortal 3.1
  • uPortal 3 features in production environments
  • Technical functionality of uPortal 3.1
    To view the video of this webinar, please click the following link: http://www.unicon.net/node/1260

Unicon will be posting additional Upcoming Webinars shortly. Stay tuned for more Jasig related Webinars. To view Unicon's upcoming events, visit: http://www.unicon.net/company/news/events

Gettysburg Portals Conference Update

Jasig Executive Director Jonathan Markow and uPortal steering committee member Andrew Petro both had the pleasure of attending the Gettysburg College Portal 2009 conference. Jonathan gave an all-conference session on the future of the higher education portal and Andrew gave presentations on the portal as the user interface to a services-oriented architecture, on what's new in uPortal, and on open source options for single sign on (CAS and Shibboleth). The conference also featured a presentation on using Google Analytics and Jasig CAS with the uPortal-based Luminis IV portal product. Jasig's growing collection of free and open-source standards-compliant portlets were of interest both to uPortal adopters and to adopters of other portal platforms.