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 ...
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…
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 ...
Made it into JA-SIG: ran into Susan on the flight from Newark, which was kind of surreal. The irony was that immediately before seeing her at the gate, I was thinking to myself how strange it is that I’ve never run into anyone else I knew while travelling out to one of these conferences. Arriving ...
[Single Mind Consulting – Summary of Sakai](href=”http://www.singlemindconsulting.com/files/white_sakai_described_v1.pdf) > Furthermore, Sakai is designed as a series of independent tools built upon a robust, standards-based framework (uPortal). > `` > Sakai’s uPortal is a powerful portal environment that utilizes the portlet specification to ensure interoperability. This particular perception – that Sakai contains an embedded uPortal instance which ...
JA-SIG Conference: Unconference Planning
Jun
25
2007
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