KS Team News 17: New New New

RICE update, New KS brochure, JA-SIG 09 Call for Proposal, Expect new releases of services, Open Enrollment, UCB-IST budget discussions, new UCB Deputy CIO, Orientation in Seattle, Shel @ BPAWG, team highlights, calendar and more…

Project News

RICE Update
Expecting increase in staffing in next 3-6 months. Mark Norton helping with coordination and logistics. For more info see KS Team News 9, Governance Org Chart, and Nov 4th email from Jennifer Foutty, "Update on Rice and Associated Committees”.

JA-SIG 2009 Call for Proposals
Join colleagues from Bedework, CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal and submit proposals for a presentation, kiosk, BOF or poster session! Deadline Dec 1st. Conference Mar 1-4, 2009; Dallas, TX. See http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/index.html

Misc Tidbits
Kuali Student brochure updated, see https://test.kuali.org/confluence/x/8ABwAw.

Wil thinks navigation by URL will be limited.

Jenzabar’s LMS adds Moodle integration, see http://snipurl.com/551cf.

Campus News

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: Release 2 workshop in Maryland.
• App Design: Finish create, modify and delete functional specs.
• UX: R2 workshop; Seattle Orientation presentation; Orientation process; Sketches of task list; Usability test plan; Function mapk
• Test lab: ESB integration. Install Hudson continuous integration tool.
• Services: Model CLU patterns and identify potential LU type and LU LU Relations. Move toward getting service contracts to major release.
• QA: Drafts of Development and Deployment sections.
• Dictionary/Search: Dictionary implementation mostly complete, pending another rewrite of DTOs to match newest service contract. Enumeration management service 75% complete
• Berkeley SMEs Contacts:
  Test Lab: IST's Application Services (AS) application teams and Geoff Boushey, Steven Hansen from ASAG.

This Week:

• UC: Finish Person and Organization mélange and draft proposed mélanges for R2.
• App Design: Review Organization mélange.
• UX: Present at Seattle Orientation. LUM CRUD function map; Usability test plan; Test Axure Update 5.1.
• Test lab: Testing BPM integation w/ ESB. Hudson continuous integration testing.
• Services: Continue work on LU relations and requirement statements. Finish cleanup of R1 services and release by the end of the week.
• QA: 2nd Draft Development, Deployment sections; 1st Draft Project Mgmt, Architecture sections.
• Berkeley SMEs Contacts: None expected
  

Misc Tidbits @ Cal

Open Enrollment Until 11/25
Review your benefits enrollments, plan changes, new rates, and keep your beneficiaries up to date. Don’t forget to re-enroll in DepCare it’s not automatic. See http://atyourservice.ucop.edu/open_enrollment/.

IST Budget Update and Discussion Wed 11/5
2:00-3:00 2111 Bancroft (Banway), 104 A/B
3:30-4:30 2484 Shattuck, Main Conference Room

Deputy CIO Michael Mundrane
Effective Jan 5, 2009, Dr. Michael Mundrane will be Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO) the campus. More about Michael at https://ist-staff.berkeley.edu/node/378.

Check out David J. Ernst, CIO of the overall UC system, talk about “UC and the Power of Ten - A Time for Realignment” at http://snipurl.com/551x0.

EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference 2009 (April 14-16 San Francisco), call for proposals due Nov 6th, see http://net.educause.edu/Program/1020346.

Calendar

Vacation/ Away from Office
Tim H. – Workshop – Nov 4-6
Tomo O. – Working Remotely – Nov 3-14
George A. - Vacation – Nov 6-12

November
6
- Secure Web App Development Workshop – Berkeley
- CIO Waggener at BPWAG – Berkeley
- Deadline for proposals to EducaseWest

7 – Organization Use Cases ready for App Design & UX

6,7 - UW/USC/New Member Orientation Session – Seattle

11 – Berkeley Veteran’s Day Holiday

12 - Kuali Commercial Affiliate KFS Web Event

14 – LRC Flow Diagrams

17 - ATP, LRC and LO use cases ready for App Design & UX

17,18 - Kuali Days 7 - Newport Beach

19,20 – Post KD7 Planning Workshop – Newport Beach

25 – Last day of UC Open Enrollment

December
1 – JA-SIG 2009 Proposal Deadline

4 – LRC Wireframes

15 - Working versions of ATP, LRC, LO to deployment testing.