2012-05-16 Incubation Call

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Attending: Susan, Cris, Benito
Absent: Steve, Tuy, Tim, Patty

Old Business

Web site / Wiki

Reminder that Tim will work with Jim to update web site. Since 4/18, Susan edited this page so it now contains correct list of incubating projects as well as link to process page for those interested in submitting a candidate.

Conference

Who will be there and get together for a chat? Cris, Benito and Tim will be there and plan to attend two sessions and invite conversation about future process. Working session could occur Thursday afternoon.

Incubation List

Should now be open to non members for posting.

Incubation responsibilities wrt GIT

The incubation group has access to manage projects in GitHub. See Git Hosting wiki page. Everyone on the committee is now an owner.

Incubation for new organization

/wiki/spaces/INCU/pages/103270248 NO CHANGE Conference is an opportunity to discuss with wider audience..

New Incubation Proposals

	INC-46	Courses Portlet	20/Apr/12
	INC-47	Classifieds Portlet	07/May/12

ACCEPTED The proposals have been accepted and assigned.

ACTION We need to remove the sponsor from the required fields for submission. It is not mentioned in our process document and we don't seem to really care about a sponsor at the board or governance level.

Incubator Status May 2012

ID	Name	Assignee	Project Lead	Status and Comments
INC-28	Confluence Portlet and Plugin	Benito J. Gonzalez	James Kionka	email sent - last status in March
INC-42	Notification Portlet: A portlet for providing notification for upcoming tasks or events..	Benito J. Gonzalez	Andrew Wills (Deactivated)	no activity - Benito will reach out
INC-15	Content Management Portlet	Cris Holdorph	Misagh Moayyed	email sent
INC-26	Spring Portlet MVC JSR-168 Archetype	Cris Holdorph	Charles Frank	email sent - no change
INC-7	Functional Tests Portlet	Cris Holdorph	Eric Dalquist	email sent
INC-38	Exchange Mail and Calendar Portlet	Cris Holdorph	Charles Frank	email sent
INC-23	Sakai connector	Steve Swinsburg	Steve Swinsburg	Update 29/5. Portlet now in Jasig github: https://github.com/Jasig/sakai-connector-portlet
INC-40	Basic LTI Portlet	Steve Swinsburg	Steve Swinsburg	Update 29/5. Portlet now in Jasig github: https://github.com/Jasig/basiclti-portlet
INC-9	OpenRegistry	Susan Bramhall	Benn Oshrin	no change - project is active
INC-44	Student Success Plan	Susan Bramhall	Russ Little	No real road blocks. We are super busy, but we are still on track to deliver as expected. We do have more schools indicating they will adopt or at least pilot.
INC-36	uMobile, A Native Mobile App for uPortal	Susan Bramhall	Jennifer Bourey	email sent
INC-22	Deployer Portlet	tim carroll	Andy Gherna
INC-35	ThinkSpace	tim carroll	Pete Boysen	.
INC-17	Widget Portlets	Tuyhang Ly	Jennifer Bourey
INC-37	Scheduling Assistant	Tuyhang Ly	Nicholas Blair
INC-41	People Soft HR Integration Portlets	Tuyhang Ly	Eric Dalquist

Incubator Status April 2012

ID	Name	Assignee	Project Lead	April Status and Comments
INC-28	Confluence Portlet and Plugin	Benito J. Gonzalez	James Kionka	James has been steadily progressing the project. Will need to start focusing on the non-technical parts of the project.
INC-6	Bookmarks Portlet	Benito J. Gonzalez	Eric Dalquist	Did the board approve graduating this project? Susan follow up!!! PROMOTED
INC-42	Notification Portlet: A portlet for providing notification for upcoming tasks or events..	Benito J. Gonzalez	Landis Casner	Web Presence? Cris?
INC-15	Content Management Portlet	Cris Holdorph	Misagh Moayyed
INC-26	Spring Portlet MVC JSR-168 Archetype	Cris Holdorph	Charles Frank
INC-7	Functional Tests Portlet	Cris Holdorph	Eric Dalquist
INC-38	Exchange Mail and Calendar Portlet	Cris Holdorph	Charles Frank
INC-23	Sakai connector	Steve Swinsburg	Steve Swinsburg	Contacted Jen to get details about moving the code to git. Seems involved. How do people feel about the current code going in with no history? The history will be in our local SVN but it probably isn't much use to anyone.
INC-40	Basic LTI Portlet	Steve Swinsburg	Steve Swinsburg	Contacted Jen to get details about moving the code to git. Seems involved. How do people feel about the current code going in with no history? The history will be in our local SVN but it probably isn't much use to anyone.
INC-9	OpenRegistry	Susan Bramhall	Benn Oshrin	OR may be enabled by OSIDM4HE project. No one can attend the conference but there is some interest.
INC-44	Student Success Plan	Susan Bramhall	Russ Little	Lots of new leads, new interest, possible new funding. Agreements and Jasig membership in the works.
INC-36	uMobile, A Native Mobile App for uPortal	Susan Bramhall	Jennifer Bourey	Still no production releases but several now in the works. There may be an announcement before the conference.
INC-22	Deployer Portlet	tim carroll	Andy Gherna	No progress. Make this part of uPortal admin tools? Tim will push this forward.
INC-27	Xythos Portlet and Plugin	tim carroll	James Kionka	Recommend that we terminate incubation on this and make it into unsponsored contribution. DONE Susan forward to board.
INC-35	ThinkSpace	tim carroll	Pete Boysen	Pulling together infrastructure.
INC-17	Widget Portlets	Tuyhang Ly	Jennifer Bourey
INC-37	Scheduling Assistant	Tuyhang Ly	Nicholas Blair
INC-41	People Soft HR Integration Portlets	Tuyhang Ly	Eric Dalquist

Prior Status (2012-3-21)

INC-44

Student Success Plan

16/Mar/12

This is a new project that developed by Sinclair Community College and led by Russ Little. It has become more successful than they can manage as a product and they have an Educause grant to take it open source. They would like to graduate from incubation by July. DONESusan will be assignee. Susan accept and welcome. Cris will help if needed.

ID	Name	Assignee	Project Lead	March Status and Comments
INC-28	Confluence Portlet and Plugin	Benito J. Gonzalez	James Kionka	Haven't heard in last month. Technical happening in January. Benito will talk to team soon.
INC-6	Bookmarks Portlet	Benito J. Gonzalez	Eric Dalquist	CLA is now filed. Still remaining issue to get licensing correct. Recommend to board that go ahead and sponsor.
INC-42	Notification Portlet: A portlet for providing notification for upcoming tasks or events..	Benito J. Gonzalez	Landis Casner	Repository created. JIRA space created. Portlets don't have separate web presence. Incubation document needs to clarify what is Web presence. FOLLOW UPCris will send email to incubation list with clarification reflecting current possible practice.
INC-15	Content Management Portlet	Cris Holdorph	Misagh Moayyed	Misagh updated Cris with status. It appears active but no specific progress changes.
INC-26	Spring Portlet MVC JSR-168 Archetype	Cris Holdorph	Charles Frank	email sent, March 19. Unable to reach him. follow up. DONESusan contact him about availability and interest in pursuing.
INC-7	Functional Tests Portlet	Cris Holdorph	Eric Dalquist	email sent, March 19. No reply.
INC-38	Exchange Mail and Calendar Portlet	Cris Holdorph	Charles Frank	Code added to https://github.com/cpfrank/Exchange-Portlet
INC-23	Sakai connector	Steve Swinsburg	Steve Swinsburg
INC-40	Basic LTI Portlet	Steve Swinsburg	Steve Swinsburg
INC-9	OpenRegistry	Susan Bramhall	Benn Oshrin	OR is active in OSIDM4HE group. UBC and UCSF are evaluating OR.
INC-36	uMobile, A Native Mobile App for uPortal	Susan Bramhall	Jennifer Bourey	U of Chicago will probably be the first production deployment. Not quite there but soon. Others are in the pipeline (UW) Ohio may be first because U of Chicago is paused on Blackberry. ESUP-Portail also heavily committed to using uMobile enhanced. Trying to get collaboration going smoothly.
INC-22	Deployer Portlet	tim carroll	Andy Gherna
INC-27	Xythos Portlet and Plugin	tim carroll	James Kionka
INC-35	ThinkSpace	tim carroll	Pete Boysen	Upcoming a 4 hour "visioning meeting" for Thinkspace to discuss ThinkSpace2.0 with faculty. This would be a major redesign of the interface to improve ease of use and functionality. I am hopeful this will be an App-structured interface (apps might include Assignments, Announcements, etc.) rather than the typical website-oriented structure we have now and present in most LMSes. An app-structured would be easier to use and could provide better integration with LMSes and portals. 20 students in an HCI course are studying ThinkSpace for the semester using UX principles to define audience, functionality, market etc. These students are from around the country and many are professionals. Two grants have been submitted to NSF: one to run the CIRTL network with hopes of integrating features of ThinkSpace into their network ($3.5M). The other is a "CyberLearning: Transforming Education" grant to advance the feedback and peer-review options of ThinkSpace ($1.6M). They have hired a part-time programmer to assist in development of new functionality for the HTML Editor (CKEditor which is also used in SAKAI). They now have an official website: www.thinkspace.org (Note the reference to JASIG)
INC-17	Widget Portlets	Tuyhang Ly	Jennifer Bourey	follow upSteve Swinsburg will take this over. All it needs is one official release.
INC-16	Search Portlet	Tuyhang Ly	Jennifer Bourey	Jen wants to drop this. Susan asked on lists for opinions on this, here are some responses: Paul Gazda said "General web searching is now easily accessible in most browsers, so the Google search would not be a useful addition at this time" Jen believes that "the search API is also becoming paid-only, further reducing its usefulness". follow up Retire from incubation.
INC-37	Scheduling Assistant	Tuyhang Ly	Nicholas Blair	Susan asked on lists whether there are any adopters, but no response so far. Maybe RPI.
INC-41	People Soft HR Integration Portlets	Tuyhang Ly	Eric Dalquist	Not much progress. Reached out to Eric for updates. Source codes have not been committed yet.