2019-03-06 uPortal Steering Committee Meeting Summary

Attendees

Christian Cousquer, Drew Wills, Lauren Anderson, Jim Helwig, Julien Gribonvald

Updates

• We discussed the future of support for old IE versions. This needs to be discussed on list.
• Drew mentioned integrating lucene search indexing portal content.
• ChristianC demoed internationalization and accessibility of web components. We could use more comments from an accessibility point of view on pull requests.
• BYU is working on adding a Rest API for portlet preferences.

uPortal Winter Summits

We discussed reporting out to the lists a summary of the summits.

Updates on uPortal Steering Committee priorities for 2019

• Materials encouraging engagement
• Improved web presence
• Migrate usable content from wiki to Github
• Improve internationalization of documentation
  We discussed concerns that some international participants may feel isolated.
• Clarify maven release process
• Clarify uPortal Supporting Subscription program
• Establish a uPortal demo site