Unicon Q4 2017 uPortal briefing detailing efforts and items of community interest.

1. Open Source Support
Briefing
Quarter 4

2. The Unicon uPortal Team
Alison DuBose
Project Manager
@alidubose
Drew Wills
Tech Lead
@drewwills
@droowills
Benito Gonzalez
Server Side Dev
@bjagg
@bjagg69
Chris Beach
Server Side Dev
@cbeach47
@abeachboy47
Christian Murphy
Front End Dev
@christianmurphy

3. Housekeeping Items
● Please keep your phones on mute
● We encourage questions, but please post to chat room
● If we can’t answer a question, we’ll follow up accordingly
● Briefing will be available on Unicon YouTube channel
● Blog posted on Unicon public website
● Let’s have fun and learn a little bit

4. Agenda
● Sustaining Engineering
● uPortal Conferences
● uPortal-home in uPortal-start
● uPortal 5.1

5. Sustaining Engineering

6. Sustaining Engineering
3 releases
438 issues resolved
136 pull requests merged
262 hours of effort
Thank you for your support!

7. Highlights
● uPortal 5!
● Apereo uPortal issue tracker grooming
● Portlet migration to Java 8
● Java Library upgrades

8. uPortal Conferences

9. uPortal Dev Days 2017 - Overview
● December 5-7, 2017
● University of Wisconsin at Madison
● No conference fees!
○ Thank you, UW Madison
● Content
○ Pre-planned presentations
○ working sessions
○ unconference-style discussions
● Pre- and post-conference gatherings

10. uPortal Dev Days 2017 - Highlights
● University of Edinburgh Notifications (2x)
● Portal Show ‘n’ Tell
● Kick-off uPortal Technical Call
○ Lodash & Template Javascript Libs
○ AngularJS in Portlets
● uPortal 5 Workshop by Drew

11. uPortal Dev Days 2017 - Highlights Continued
● “Basic User Experience for Developers”
by Maria from UW Madison
● Soffits
● uPortal Ecosystem Intake Process
● uPortal Architecture and Microservices
● Lauren from BYU presented on Securing
RESTful APIs

12. uPortal Dev Days 2017 - Outcomes
● Attendees provided a lot of positive
feedback
● A LOT OF INTEREST IN uPORTAL 5!
● Excellent event between Open Apereo
for face-to-face interactions
● Discussions of another Dev Days for 2018
○ Potentially in Gilbert, AZ at Unicon

13. ESUP Days & Apereo Paris 2018
● February 6, 2018
● Université Paris Descartes
● Content (highlights):
○ Learning Analytics
○ Apereo Karuta
○ uPortal 5
○ Grouper
○ Apereo OAE
● Large community of uPortal adopters within French Higher Education

15. Open Apereo 2018
● June 3rd - 7th
● Delta Marriott Hotel in Montreal, Quebec
● Proposals due Friday, 26 January!
https://www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/ff0248e9-0795-437b-b96b-a608c25608ed
● uPortal Collaboration Day(s): https://goo.gl/UhfzKp

16. uPortal-home in uPortal-start

17. GitHub URLs
https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal-start https://github.com/uPortal-Project/uPortal-home
https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal-start/pull/84
Issue #90: Bundle uPortal-home with uPortal-start #84

18. Command Line Setup
$ git fetch origin
$ git checkout -b add-uportal-home origin/add-uportal-home
$ vim etc/portal/global.properties
● Configure uPortal-home.enabled=true
$ ./gradlew clean portalInit tomcatStart
… wait … then open browser to ‘http://localhost:8080/uPortal/’
‘Origin’ may be ‘upstream’ or other
remote reference name

19. uPortal-home

20. When will it be merged?
WCAG 2.0 AA

21. uPortal 5.1

22. Coming in uPortal 5.1 & Beyond
1. Layout options based on CSS Flexbox
2. Updated, REST-based sitemap portlet
3. API documentation based on Swagger
4. Content matching strategies based on contextual information and/or
Learning Analytics data
5. Baked-in Docker container support
6. Better support for Tomcat server configurations in uPortal-start
7. Easier integration with Shibboleth
Available perhaps as early as late February!
Done
Done
In Progress
TODO
Done
TODO
In Progress

23. Layout with columns missing portlets

24. Layout options based on CSS Flexbox

25. Swagger Support
● Documentation for uPortal REST APIs
● Simple UI for invoking those APIs and
inspecting responses

26. Content matching strategies
● Match users with portal content based on pluggable strategies
● Leverage user attributes, group affiliations, portlet metadata
● And even Learning Analytics data:
○ Learning Record Store
Captures learning data from the portal & other sources based on xAPI or IMS Caliper
○ Data Processing Engine
Evaluates data from the LRS to correlate portal content with user attributes & group
affiliations based on pluggable algorithms
○ Portal Server
Is both one* provider of LRS data and the consumer of correlations from the Data Processing
Engine

27. Content matching strategies based on Learning Analytics data

28. Question & Answer

29. Look for the Slides
on the Unicon Blog
https://www.unicon.net/about/blogs