2016-10-18 uPSC meeting notes

Date

October 18, 2016

Attendees

• Jim Helwig

• Drew Wills

• Andrew Petro
• Christian Cousquer
• Aaron Grant
• Anthony Colebourne
• Brandon
• Benito Gonzalez

Releases

We discussed getting a patch release out in the near future. Drew will coordinate.

uPortal Sustaining Subscriptions

Jim will be drafting a Three Pillars document helping explain the importance and relationship of Apereo membership, uPortal supporting subscriptions, and vendor support programs. This will be shared and discussed with commercial affiliates. this will also be shared with Apereo members using uPortal prior to their renewal.

Elections

Brandon and Benito were congratulated on being elected to the uPSC. There were a number of improvements to to process that were discussed for the next election cycle. Now that the uPortal Supporting Subscription program is underway, we will be looking at filling the USS representative position. Drew and Jim will be reaching out to potential candidates, especially those that may represent our expanding community (e.g., K-12 schools/consortia).

Incubation

Jim will officially submit UW's angularjs-portal/appframe for incubation. Drew will reach out to Edinburgh to discuss incubation of their web conferencing portlet that integrates with BbC Ultra.

i18n

We discussed potential next steps towards improving internationalization of uPortal. Christian shared a document that identifies uPortal i18n issues from Esup POV and information from OAE on technologies they are using in this area. There was consensus that the next step may be target a subsystem/component/microservice that would be part of uPortal 5 and focus efforts on improving i18n for it.

Other

The EsupSympa portlet has been updated, licensed under Apache 2, and now works better with Respondr.

Action items

• Andrew Wills will coordinate the 4.3.1 release.
• Jim Helwig will draft and share Three Pillars doc.
• Andrew Wills and Jim Helwig will reach out to potential uPSC USS reps.
• Jim Helwig will submit angularjs-portal/appframe for incubation.
• Andrew Wills will contact Edinburgh to discuss WCP incubation.
  

Carryover:

• Jim Helwig will continue to poll the uPSC for a survey lead
• Jim Helwig will continue to solicit a community call coordinator from the uPSC 
• Andrew Petro will continue to work through GitHub logistics on the uportal-dev list
• Andrew Petro will follow up with the uPSC on GitHub policy
• Andrew Petro will take look at leveraging the new GitHub organization web site capabilities