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Open Apereo 2013

Open Apereo 2013

Opening remarks at the Open Apereo 2103 Conference, San Diego #apereo13

Ian Dolphin

June 04, 2013
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  1. Ian Dolphin, Apereo Executive Director [email protected] Monday, 3 June 13

    Introduction. Here to to do some housekeeping. To provide you with a snapshot overview of where we are in this formative stage of our existence. And to ask some questions you might like to consider and discuss during the week.
  2. Monday, 3 June 13 Thanks all our sponsors, and our

    Gold Sponsors, Asahi Net and Longsight. These events would be a lot more expensive for participants without their help Show of appreciation...
  3. Housekeeping Mee#ng  Space  Wifi  –  SSID:  Wes#n  Conference Password:  ape717693

    Wes#n  Guest  Room  Wifi  –  Accept  “charges”  in  order  to   connect,  and  they  will  be  removed  from  your  final  bill. Mee#ngs  Room  are  NOT  secured!  Please  do  not  leave  your   items  unaRended. Monday, 3 June 13 Thanks to planning committee, program committee, social events committee. And thanks to those who organise Apereo events elsewhere - the Apereo, Sakai and ESUP events in Japan, Europe, South Africa and Mexico which have already taken place this year and drawn around 340 attendees
  4. ... and welcome Apereo A new non pro t organisation

    registered in New Jersey ... ... here’s a word from a New Jersey resident on the merger of Jasig and Sakai Monday, 3 June 13 I’m here to welcome you, but we’re all here to welcome Apereo.
  5. Mission “... collaborate to foster, develop, and sustain open technologies

    and innovation to support learning, teaching, and research." Monday, 3 June 13 to assist and facilitate educational organizations which ... [mission] Focus on academic mission delivery NOT on administration. Combine Jasig - application and infrastructure and Sakai’s teaching learning and research focus
  6. 72 Monday, 3 June 13 “State of the Foundation” Notes

    Still two-thirds US based - but growing internationally Move from being a US organisation with groups elsewhere to being An international organization with a strong US presence Opportunities: India and Latin America
  7. ESUP - Text Text 73 French Universities 80% French Higher

    Education Monday, 3 June 13 Adapt, localize, create open source software - Contribute to i8n efforts - Participate in incubation process - contribute code (uMobile) - contribute to adoption (Sakai CLE as MOOC for French Higher Ed, sponsored by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research
  8. New Board Monday, 3 June 13 Most global board -

    Japan, France, Australia, United Kingdom, United States Spread of institutions - research intensives and others Mix of CIO’s and Senior Managers, software developers In many ways, the most diverse board I’ve worked with - - and Theresa’s keynote subject is about one of the obvious gaps in that diversity ...
  9. Foundation Priorities 1 Focus on projects & communities Monday, 3

    June 13 the first priority runs through *all* our work ...
  10. Current Foundation Priorities 6 Complete legal work Redevelop website Rationalise

    infrastructure Incubation review Advisory Council Strategic planning Monday, 3 June 13 So I’m going to spend 10 minutes talking about legal intricacies. just checking you were awake ... Some of this stuff will be invisible - it’s background, bread and butter work ...
  11. Monday, 3 June 13 Some is much more visible New

    web site will be built in stages - next stage involves re-presentation of project material and a focal point for many of our regional groups Future work includes matchmaking support. We want this site to become a community hub.
  12. Advisory Council Michael Feldstein Monday, 3 June 13 Advisory Council

    of senior figures from institutions inside and outside the Apereo Community. Michael Feldstein taking point on putting that together Announcement on web site this week
  13. Advisory Council Monday, 3 June 13 Now when I googled

    for an image of Michael for that slide, I go an interesting result Casey Green, and some of the other connections I got, but what’s [click] that about? Anything we should know?
  14. Board Strategic Planning Monday, 3 June 13 Statement this week

    - Role of the Board How Apereo fits the Higher Education landscape Apereo Project Portfolio Incubation & Software Lifecycle Priorities for immediate action More on this on Thursday in my closing comments
  15. Incubation http://www.apereo.org/incubation Monday, 3 June 13 Identified incubation as an

    essential piece of how we support the software lifecycle. How innovation becomes sustainable. Reviewing former Jasig process. Part of that review is an extensive survey of community opinion. More in a session this week, but the online survey is open until the end of the conference. Even if you skip some questions, please contribute to the survey results.
  16. Software Communities and Projects Monday, 3 June 13 20,000 feet

    view of SOME of our projects - not time for even a basic scorecard on all of them Plenty of opportunities to catch up this week
  17. Project Health - uPortal Monday, 3 June 13 UPortal Steering

    Group, committers, portlet contributors - anyone associated with uPortal - Calendar, Notification portlets, Event tracking an analytics tools seven patch releases,
  18. Project(s) Health - Mobile • uMobile - leverages uPortal for

    mobile • Oakland deploys IOS app as MySail • UPMC Sorbonne, Normandie, La Rochelle deploy browser based version • Keitai - enriched services for CLE • Leverage between initiatives explored Monday, 3 June 13 New Keitai initiative work in Sakai CLE going very well - ESUP code contributions to uMobile
  19. Project Health - Bedework • Bedework 3.9 Released January 2013

    • Event registration module added • Solr indexing • New adopters - ▪ New Haven Public Library ▪ San Diego Public Library • Scheduling assistant incorporated Monday, 3 June 13 New release, new adoptions. Major calendaring event coinciding with ours (hmm .. need a better calendaring solution), but session where you can find out more this week.
  20. Project Health - Sakai CLE • 2.9 - a major

    release • Performance improvements • Look and feel improvements • Lessons now part of core • Improved GradeBook, Tests & Quizzes, forums, messages ... and more Monday, 3 June 13 Great work that Rutgers did with Lessons is now in core. 2.92 release the other day. Significant improvements in perfromance scaleability and tools. Sakai CLE pushing into new, if related areas - HEC Montreal, Amsterdam, French HE MOOCs - using CLE at scale. New adoptions. NYU completed transition from Blackboard.
  21. Project Health - CAS • CAS 3.5.2 latest general release

    • Continued improvements • Widely adopted in higher ed (& outside!) • Ecosystem of open source extensions • New committers Monday, 3 June 13 Remember where CAS, our widely used single sign on solution came from - Yale CAS - Yale moved CAS to Jasig almost ten years ago
  22. Project Health - Apereo OAE Monday, 3 June 13 [Note:

    Spend no more than 3 minutes...] Project partner departures last June-August - Meeting the challenge of scaleability - new technology stack Very significant progress - testament to team New investor - Marist. Project capitalised for next year. Incubation when new process initiated Questions about how our community organises projects - Very large investments make projects brittle - and a smaller project here seems to be achieving more. Not the only question posed there - Something to reflect on during the course of the week. Return to that on Thursday.
  23. Monday, 3 June 13 This week is about Apereo, which

    means it’s about you, and about those who cant be here, but who participate in our community. Without active participants, our community is nothing. We talk a lot about code contributions, and they’re important. But active participation can take a variety of forms -it can be simply through the contribution of your time, and your own specific expertise. We really are about valuing diversity, and about building a culture of contribution. I believe this week marks a vital stage in that. Welcome again, and have a great week!
  24. Challenges, Encouragement, and Women in IT - Does it Matter?

    Theresa Rowe, Chief Information Officer, Oakland University Monday, 3 June 13