uPortal Developers Meeting at UW-Madison - 2006.09
- Eric Dalquist
- Gary Thompson (Deactivated)
- Jan Nielsen
Agenda
Meeting Minutes
Date and Time
September 11 and 12 (Monday and Tuesday), 2006
9 AM to 4 PM each day
Developers are encouraged to stay for the remainder of the week (September 13 - 15) for a coding session. A wireless internet connection will be available, but developers will need to bring their own laptops. The purpose of this coding session is to give developers a chance to work together in person on the coding of uPortal 2.x and uPortal 3.
Host and Location
Madison, WI 53706
Directions to Campus
The meeting will be held at The Pyle Center. Monday and Tuesday will be in room 227. Wednesday through Friday will be in room 217.
The Pyle Center
University of Wisconsin-Extension
702 Langdon Street Madison, WI 53706-1420
Front Desk: 608-262-1122
Preparation
It is recommended that you review the following before coming to the uPortal developers meeting:
- The overview document that outlines the major goals of uPortal 3.
- uPortal 3 code that has been developed so far. You can find it in the CVS up3 sandbox module.
- The Pluto Portlet container
- The WSRP4J framework
- The JSR 168 Portlet Specification
- The WSRP Specification
- The Spring Framework, especially the concept of Inversion Of Control (IoC) and the Spring JDBC abstraction framework
- The Sakai Project
- The JA-SIG Issue Tracker, with an eye towards the uPortal 3 Road-map, and the uPortal 2 Road-map
- The first draft of the uPortal 3 Community Development Roadmap
- The uPortal Requirements Gathering Process
Presentations
Local hotels
The Lowell Inn and Conference Center
610 Langdon Street
Madison, WI 53703-1104
Front Desk: 608-256-2621
Reservations: 866-301-1753
Note: This is right next to the conference location.
- Room Rate $77
- The Lowell Inn does not offer shuttle service. A cab is recommended for transportation from the airport.
Best Western Inn Towner and Highland Club
2424 University Avenue Madison, WI 53726-3811
Telephone: 608-233-8778
Ask for "JA-SIG" block in order to get special rate.
- The hotel has complimentary shuttle service from airport to hotel, as well as shuttle service to and from campus. You must call beforehand to make shuttle arrangements.
- Room Rate $89
- Block of rooms will be released on August 20, 2006. Must call before 8/20 to get special rate.
- Rooms reserved:
- 25 rooms for Sunday 9/10 and Monday 9/11
- 10 rooms for Tuesday through Thursday. 9/12-14.
Note, the hotel is sold out for Friday night .... there is a football game on Saturday!
Meals
A buffet lunch will be provided on Monday and Tuesday. It will feature at least one meat and one vegetarian option.
Morning breaks will be catered all week with coffee, tea, brewed decaf, assorted pastries, and juices.
Afternoon breaks will be catered all week with assorted sodas, bottled waters, cookies, and a specially selected snack item of the day.
If you have any special diatary needs, please contact Jim Helwig as early as possible.
Transportation
Directions from Madison's airport (MSN) to the Best Western Inn Towner - MSN to Inn Towner
Attendance List
Please RSVP to Eric Dalquist or add yourself to this list:
Name |
Organization |
In person |
Video conf |
Attending post meeting coding session |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Eric Dalquist |
UW-Madison |
Y |
|
Y |
Jim Helwig |
UW-Madison |
Y |
|
N |
John Hare |
UW-Madison |
Y |
|
Y |
Ozzyie Chen |
UW-Madison |
Y |
|
N |
Unicon |
Y |
|
N |
|
Unicon |
Y |
|
N |
|
Andrew Petro |
Unicon |
Y |
|
Y |
Gary Thompson |
Unicon |
Y |
|
N |
Peter Kharchenko |
Unicon |
Y |
|
N |
Dan McCallum |
Unicon |
N |
Y |
Y |
Nick Bolton |
Unicon |
N |
Y |
Y |
Brad Szabo |
Unicon |
N |
Y |
Y |
Jonathan Markow |
JA-SIG |
Y |
|
N |
Michael Oltz |
Cornell U |
Y |
|
N |
UMBC |
Y |
|
N |
|
SunGard Higher Education |
Y |
|
N |
|
Jim Farmer |
IM&M |
Y |
|
N |
Rutgers |
|
Y* |
N |
|
Rutgers |
|
Y* |
N |
|
Rutgers |
|
Y* |
N |
|
Nasser Salomon |
UC Riverside |
|
Y* |
Y |
Columbia |
|
Y* |
N |
|
Yale |
|
Y (@Rutgers) |
N |
|
Roger Despres |
Yale |
|
Y (@Rutgers) |
N |
* video conference connection successfully tested
Anyone who will be participating via video conference who would like to invite others to take advantage of your facilities please add yourself below.
Rutgers University (Piscataway, NJ)
Unfortunately, the myRutgers team will be unable to attend the Fall developer meeting in person. We would like to invite anyone else who is similarly unable to attend in person to join us at the Rutgers campus in Piscataway, NJ to participate in Monday & Tuesday's sessions via video conference.
Space is limited - please RSVP to Jason Jason jayshao@rutgers.eduto arrange for parking & wifi. New Brunswick train station is on the NE Corridor line of NJTransit, and is accessible via campus bus (it's a short drive so someone could probably pick you up too). driving directions
Questions
For questions about the meeting or meeting location, contact:
Eric Dalquist
Coding Session Pictures
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