KS Team News 14: Oct 15 2008

Infrastructure Integration Workshop
Workshop notes: https://test.kuali.org/confluence/x/QALlBQ

• Authorization service implementation reviewed. No administrative UI yet but will be a Rice/KNS UI most likely.
• Workflow implementation options reviewed:
  a) Proposal kept in workflow xml til approved. LU service consulted for validation at different states.
  b) Proposal is stored in system of record with different states
• Search implementation reviewed. Need named searches for individual services.
• Dictionary enumerations use XML annotations. Use qName to point to enumeration. Generic solution for type-state service configuration.
• BRMS working as a web service. Start on a generic GWT authoring interface.
• Service implementation specifications reviewed for Authorization config, Workflow, Domain specific business rules in domain specific language, Within domain business rules, Type/State configuration.

Outstanding Issues:
1. Resolve the workflow issues.
2. Services team completes structure of type/state config.
3. Decide software implementation of type/state config.

Kuali University (KuU) Taking Shape
Sarah Bauder, Dan Symonds, Darleen LeBarbera and Audrey Lindsay continue to flesh out the KuU, see https://test.kuali.org/confluence/x/l4HXBQ. The Word docs will eventually help us configure and test our reference implementation.

New Faces
Scott Shepherd, the new KS Communication Mgr (UMaryland) starts his week. Brian Bennett (CMU) joins KS as the new KS Documentation Manager and Tom Vrana (CMU) joined the KS Steering Committee this week.

Team Highlights
Full status reports at https://test.kuali.org/confluence/x/084 (tech), https://test.kuali.org/confluence/x/ga0 (functional)

Last Week:

• UC: Modify Program and Organization Lifecycles ready for Internal Review.
• App Design: Finished Create a Course spec, reviewed Retire a Course Melange.
• UX: Work w/ App Design on Retire a Course; developing function map; Better Axure support for distributed sharing coming.
• Test lab: Infrastructure Integration Workshop.
• Services: Debriefed on Infrastructure workshop. Explored operations surrounding search and enumeration. Fleshed out implementation stacks for many more services.
• Rice: Research Atomikos configurations for Derby, Oracle, & MySql databases
• Dictionary/Search: No update
• Rules: No Update
• QA: Revised QA outline.

This Week:

• UC: Work on Retire Program. James on vacation til 10/22.
• App Design: Retire a Course spec and Modify a Course Melange
  feedback, starting Modify a Course FS
• UX: Work w/ App Design team on Retire and Modify Course; function map; Create presentation for UC workshop; UX welcome page.
• Test lab: Distributed deployment of POC, Test Lab project plan and setup.
• Services: Revise service implementation stacks (https://test.kuali.org/confluence/x/94GpBQ) to new model. Continue exploring search, enumerations, and requirements for LUs, focusing on programs.
• QA: Add key concepts to outline.

Misc Tidbits

UX Lead Holds Class for a Day
There are a few ways that the KS project can benefit from having team members connected to students:

• Students are future users of KS. Any connection with them keeps them in our awareness.
• Students can support usability testing of prototypes by participating in testing.
• If it is relevant to class curriculum, students can support User Centered Design efforts by assisting in contextual inquiry, data analysis, etc.
• Connection with the KS project builds awareness in the student body.

With these benefits in mind, Rachel Hollowgrass (KS UX Lead) agreed to teach a class last week at Berkeley's graduate school of information. While Erik Wilde was away she gave a lecture on usability to his Web Architecture class. Her slides are posted here: http://dret.net/lectures/web-fall08/usability.pdf

Berkeley News

Release 2 Video for 2012 Community Council
Monday’s 2012 Community Council meeting was cancelled but members will not have to wait to hear about KS Release 2 because Anne De Luca recorded a brief overview. See https://bspace.berkeley.edu/access/content/group/55b8a497-677a-48de-00c6-517e84196fd9/pages/KualiStudentRelease2.htm or embedded below.

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Calendar

October
16 - Scott Shepherd starts as KS Communication Mgr

20- KS Board Review of Release Roadmap

28,29,30- Use Case Team Workshop – Maryland

30
- Leo and Wil at Educause
- Berkeley Open Enrollment Starts

November
6,7 - UW/USC/New Member Orientation Session

17,18 - Kuali Days 7

19,20 – Post KD7 Planning Workshop