200808 August 2008 uPortal project contribution to JA-SIG newsletter

uPortal Update

Matt Peterson announced that uPortal 3 is now in production at the University of New England at Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. He reports that, "We successfully released uPortal 3.0.1 into production this morning at UNE, replacing uPortal 2.5.3. So far, so good! Our log files are far, far, far cleaner due to the improved code base of uP3. It is also snappier and more reliable. Thanks for everyone's input into issues we encountered on the way to this point." You can keep up to date on other uPortal 3 implementation efforts at http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/vQXP.

The uPortal Steering Committee is working with Erik Olsson of UC Irvine on making their Announcements Portlet an official JASIG sandbox project. Currently it is available at http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/PLT/Announcements+Portlet. As more portlets become available through JASIG, we would like to bundle them with uPortal.

This month the uPortal steering committee responded to a request for fact-checking by CMS Watch of a draft of the uPortal chapter of their proprietary Enterprise Portals report. Thanks are due to Colin Clark, Jonathan Markow, and Andrew Petro for collaboration on that response. The Enterprise Portals Report is available from CMS Watch for a fee. The committee is presently working to refactor its responses to the CMS Watch draft into improvements to the uPortal documentation, primarily in the uPortal manual, alongside other documentation improvements. The uPortal documentation is free and publicly available.