uMobile open calls

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Last updated: Jan 15, 2015 by Dave Derderian
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Come join us!

Every 3rd Thursday of the month at 11am EDT - join the call using the info below.

Reverse Chronological Order

This page is structured with summaries of meetings, the most recent at top and the oldest at bottom, with the summaries linking out to more information.

Meeting 14 - January 15th (12pm EDT)

This Meeting's Agenda:
  • Progress made on native code bases
  • uPortal 4.1/4.2 and how it effects uMobile
  • New APIs and why they're so great
  • Possible new view for detached mode (ideas)
  • Conference talks
  • Other topics people are interested in

Meeting 13 - November 20th (11am EDT)

This Meeting's Agenda:
  • uPortal API in 4.1.2 / 4.2 and how uMobile benefits
  • Difference in Apps between uPortal versions
  • uMobile repo
  • Changes made in the Android / iOS apps
  • Apereo Camp / Unconference
  • Road Map Updates

Meeting 12 - October 16th (11am EDT)

This Meeting's Agenda:
  • Mailing List Merge!
  • Android / iOS Updates
  • uPortal APIs and how uMobile Benefits
  • uMobile Global Config (what and why)
  • Marketing Ideas (if we have time)

Meeting 11 - September 18th (11am EDT)

Lot of talk today about merging all of our uMobile lists into one brand new, beautiful, all-knowing list umobile@apereo.org (tentative).  If you are subscribed to any of the uMobile mailing lists currently, don't worry, you don't have to do anything.  You will automagically be added to the new uMobile list. 

A decision has been made to use Google Hangouts on future calls. This will still allow everyone to participate and converse (hangout or chat) without the pain of Calliflower. We're going to try this out for the October uMobile call.

Be on the lookout!

  • An email will be sent out within the next few days letting you know that the mailing list merge is happening and when it's complete.
  • Calendar event(s) that keep you up to date about uMobile calls. The about / where / when / how to join.

Meeting 10 - Thursday 21 August 2014 via Calliflower

This was the first call after the 2014 Apereo conference.  It was sparsely attended and talked through cleaning up the issue tracker and wiki usage to reduce the noise somewhat and focus in on the most promising directions.

 

Meeting 9 - Wednesday 4 June at Apereo Conference

New uMobile definition: mobile uPortal client and specific extensions for the mobile platform.

Liberating portal services via web services - start with search - helps define a pattern of access for future services to unlock. Oakland to work on the native app, UW-Madison to look at the portal service unlocking.

Other services: notifications, app customisation (market place), favorites, map portlets, courses

App platforms - are we looking for a single development platform? This would be ideal in terms of focusing resources, but not certain how realistic this is. We need to build services to empower people to build clients. 

Switch to Google Hangouts from Calliflower, have monthly calls, move conversations to the list where possible. Keep the same times

Revisit the organisation of the wiki. What about the website? Oakland to write up native, Misagh PhoneGap pages. uMobile needs to be included in the uPortal documentation.

Dave to assume the role of Chair.

 

Call 8 - Thursday 1 May at 11AM Eastern. Suggested agenda:

  1. How to make the most of the Conference
    1. Successful proposals?
    2. What meeting space do we need? Is shared space (e.g. multiple round tables) OK?
  2. Who will deliver the 7 minute uMobile lightning talk on Monday (10:30-11:45)? Previous slide deck (along with uPortal) is at https://speakerdeck.com/jimhelwig/uportal-and-umobile-lightning-talk-open-apereo-2013

 

Call 7 - Thursday 3 April at 11AM Eastern. Suggested agenda:

  1. Oakland's latest app store submission
  2. Feedback from Oakland on the Enterprise Mobile App Conference
  3. How to make the most of the Conference - what has everyone submitted?
  4. uMobile PhoneGap in the long run? (any thoughts on https://lists.wisc.edu/read/messages?id=32972889?)

 

Call 6 - Thursday 6 March at 11AM Eastern. Suggested agenda:

  1. Actions items from Apereo Camp
  2. Oakland's latest app store submission
  3. Feedback from Oakland on the Enterprise Mobile App Conference
  4. How to make the most of the Conference

 

Call 5 - Thursday 6 February at 11AM Eastern. This call will catch up on conversations held at Apereo Camp last week. As discussed on 9 January these topics were expected to include:

  1. Roadmap
  2. Strategy
  3. Development practices
  4. The relationship with the Responder uPortal layout and how it affects portlets not bundled with uPortal

 

The fourth call will take place on Thursday 9 January at 11AM Eastern. The topics for the agenda are:

  1. Apereo Unconference planning (see http://www.apereo.org/content/2014-apereo-unconference-az)
  2. Community primary contact volunteer
  3. Everyone's 2014 plans for mobile

 

The third call will take place on Thursday 5 December at 11AM Eastern. The topics for the agenda are:

  1. Oakland Phone Gap demo
  2. Roadmap
    1. See uMobile Roadmap

 

The second call will take place on Thursday 7 November at 11AM Eastern. The topics for the agenda are:

  1. Improvements needed for uMobile
  2. Consideration of PhoneGap as a native client
  3. Client as a web service
  4. Responsive design

Notes & Action items from Thursday, November 7, 2013

 

We held our first open community call on Thursday 3 October 2013. We had a great attendance of more than 12 schools and a wide ranging conversation about everything mobile. One of the outputs from this was a snapshot of mobile strategies and technologies.