Posted by: jayshao on: April 22, 2008
uPortal 3.0 GA (General Availability) was released recently, congratulations to the entire team (and especially Eric from UW-Madison) for all their hard work and efforts.
Posted by: jayshao on: March 31, 2008
Clay from Georgia Tech shot me an email recently which spurred me to try and put to words how my thinking has evolved about the relationship of an enterprise portal and Sakai, and where these technologies and communities are heading.
In general I think the focus of “enterprise portals” has always been one of integration and [...]
Posted by: jayshao on: November 19, 2007
Eric posted the video from uPortal’s EDUCAUSE Catalyst award onto Youtube:
Posted by: jayshao on: November 18, 2007
So, the JA-SIG un-conference (even the working sessions) is over, giving me a chance to do some thinking and reflection about the event and its aftermath.
Overall, the attendance, interest, and excitement demonstrated by all of the participants was pretty overwhelming. We had both more individuals, institutions, and organizations represented than we ever would have anticipated [...]
Posted by: jayshao on: October 31, 2007
At the Community Source reception cosponsored by JA-SIG, Sakai, Kuali it was uplifting to see the number of people participating. CIOs, managers, developers, vendors were all present in abundance. It was also clear from conversation at the reception that open-source in the Higher Ed is breaking into new areas. While there’s no question infrastructure and [...]
Posted by: jayshao on: September 16, 2007
Looks like I’m famous A Q&A on how I got involved with JA-SIG and some of my thoughts on education and open-source was posted in the latest issue of the JA-SIG Newsletter (which Roger has done a superior job of publishing monthly, and on a real schedule too — congratulations!)
Posted by: jayshao on: July 24, 2007
Open Source Portal Project Honored as Catalyst
Campustech did a short piece on JA-SIG uPortal winning EDUCAUSE’s Catalyst Award, where they mentioned the award, and then quoted some bits from Jim H…
Jim Helwig, the project manager of the uPortal project at the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Department of Information Technology, said the project represented the [...]
Posted by: jayshao on: June 25, 2007
Thinking about things to do for the new JA-SIG. Some talk on various topics related to un-conferences, and other bits. There was actually a lot of interesting discussion about regional conferences, video meetings, un-conferences, events focused on collaborating on whitepages, etc. I’ll updated with an audio transcript… uhhh… when I get a chance…
Posted by: jayshao on: June 25, 2007
Chuck is talking a bit more about his experience with portlets, and the implications for uPortal, Sakai, etc.
Sakai portlet notes:
* Preferences – site.upd to change
* Edit Mode – site.upd again
* `isUserInRole()` mapped to Sakai permissions site.upd, content.read, etc.
The `isUserInRole()` mapping seems a little counter-intuitive — seems like really portlet.xml should be mapped to a particular [...]
The Ed Techie: What Mailbox limits reveal
Posted by: jayshao on: November 30, 2007
The Ed Techie: What Mailbox limits reveal:
Grainne posted recently about the frustration of continually getting the ‘Your mailbox is over its size limit’ in our OU email accounts. I can’t tell you how annoying this – sometimes I am just trying to send a quick response to someone before I have to dash out of [...]