2023-06-14 uPortal Steering Committee Meeting Summary

Attendees

Jim Helwig, Chris Beach, Julien Gribonvald, Jim Helwig, Laura Moran, Benito Gonzalez, Jonathan Tran

Topics

FOSSY 2023

The Free and Open Source Yearly (FOSSY) conference will be taking place 13 to 16 of July in Portland, OR. In the “FOSS For Education” community track there will be some uPortal presentations at this inaugural conference. At the time of writing, the following proposal(s) have been accepted:

• Open Standards in Higher Ed and the Challenges of Interoperability

uPortal Call for Developers and (Implementing) Institutions

There are few 30-minute calls in the works focused on developers, contributors, and the user community.

• uPortal technical call: Friday June 23 at 11:00 AM (Pacific)
• An implementor-focused call is planned for the end of July

Watch the mailing lists and this space for the call info.

Web Presence

While there are still ongoing discussions regarding uPortal’s web presence, both on Apereo’s website and our own efforts, the steering committee has started to evaluate the value in using our LinkedIn user group.