Wednesday, October 8, 2008

KS Team News 13: Oct 8 2008

Functional Council (FC) Oct 2nd Meeting

Release 2 Scope Summary Ready for KS Board
After adding an overview section and making some table changes including highlighting minimal scheduling development and registration in programs and specializations, the FC approved Release 2 Scope Summary v3.1 for KS Board review on Oct 20. The latest version is https://test.kuali.org/confluence/download/attachments/40961/Release+2+Scope+Summary+ver+3.1.doc

SME Resources: R1 and R2
SME continuity and availability are being discussed. R1 SMEs will have new tasks through Aug 09: spec sign off, development questions, quality assurance, configuration and documentation. R2 SMEs will be doing what R1 SME have done for the last 8 months. Down the road, implementation SMEs will be needed for campus implementation projects. SME resource commitments will be discussed at the next FC meeting.

Kuali University: Sneak Peek
Audrey and Sara shared initial work on Kuali University, see their initial rough notes and org charts:

Orientation Workshop Nov 6-7
The UW/USC/New Member Orientation Workshop will be Nov 6-7 in Seattle. Attendees and logistics can be found at https://test.kuali.org/confluence/x/fYGuBQ. The workshop will include general overviews, governance, team organization, roles & responsibilities and project approach. Breakout sessions on Technical and Application Architecture and design principles, collaboration and methodology of Service, Use Case, Apps Design, and Development teams and much more.

Kuali Website Facelift
The new Kuali Foundation website is live, see http://www.kuali.org/

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: Organization, Create and Authorize Administrative Person ready for Internal review. Modified Create Course melange based on App Design feedback. All melanges to be finished Oct 17th.
  • App Design: Work with Services on Func Spec vs. Service Spec boundaries and interaction.
  • UX: UI work; persona deliverables; UI spec format; Working with App Design, Dev, UI; UI for rules; Impromptu UX presentations @ Berkeley open house.
  • Test lab: Prep for Infrastructure Integration Workshop:uml and presentation on transactions alternative. Requested nodes on linux cluster for kuali performance test lab. BPEL investigations, install structure101 and PushToTest.
  • Services: Began stack diagrams. Continued modeling programs as CLUs and exploring LU dimensions. Completed initial service reference index.
  • Rice: Spring properties factory bean to read properties with a given prefix from a default or an override properties file and wrote a Spring debug helper.
  • Dictionary/Search: No update
  • Rules: No Update
  • QA: Revised QA outline (v3) and discussed next steps.

This Week:

Misc Tidbits

Andragogy
Johanna Metzgar introduced the word ‘andragogy’ into the Phase 1 Learning Plan Domain Synopsis, so I had to highlight this article by Trent Batson, "The Institutional Path for Change in This Age: Andragogy, not Pedagogy," in Campus Technology, 10/8/2008, http://www.campustechnology.com/printarticle.aspx?id=68283.

Kuali mentioned on CIO.com Knowledge Space Blog
William A. Crowell blogs about collaborative development: “one of my favorites the Kuali Foundation a consortium of Universities that are developing, sustaining and evolving a comprehensive suite of administrative software that meet their financial, research, student community and infrastructure needs.” See http://advice.cio.com/bcrowell/collaborative_software_development_a_must_to_explore

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Berkeley News

KS Team Open House Success
The Oct 2nd Berkeley KS Team open house was a big success. The office was filled to capacity with guests from across campus and who knows how many via our live stream (at one point we had 30+ concurrent viewers).

KS @ UC Enrollment Tech Conference
Members of the Berkeley KS team gave a standing room only presentation at the UC Enrollment Technology Conference on Oct 6th. Presentation details and info about the electronic ‘goodie bag’ for session attendees can be found at http://students.berkeley.edu/wiki/ow.asp?EnrollTechConferen08KualiStudent

Calendar

October

6,7,8,9 - Infrastructure Integration Workshop UMaryland

6-13 - Ruth Away
6-15 - Cath Away

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

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