Rajiv Kaushik is the new KS project manager, lending Rice a hand, UMaryland’s prototype, R1 dashboard, December KS Board status report, team member changes, MIT's mobile web, new student liaison at UCB, calendar and more...
Project News
Project Manager Hired
Rajiv Kaushik has been hired by MIT to become the Project Manager for Kuali Student. Rajiv starts January. Welcome Rajiv!
KS is helping to modify the Rice code base this month. Scott Gibson is managing the effort and expects to be finished by Christmas.
Maryland has built a prototype to help illustrate workflow and learning unit concepts. Access the prototype at http://kuali.umd.edu/lum/ (source code available in KS svn).
Tidbits
An R1 dashboard page is being created to serve as a convenient place to access the latest Release 1 plans and progress. See https://test.kuali.org/confluence/x/LAGYBg.
December KS Board status report summarizing completed and planned activities, issues, risks and costs is available at https://test.kuali.org/confluence/x/rM0.
Dave Alderson (UMCP) is being replaced by Bill Spann on the Steering Committee member. Dave has been assigned other activities at Maryland.
Heather Johnson (UBC) has moved from Services to Development.
Farooq Sadiq (UArizona) has assumed responsibility for the infrastructure shared by all the Kuali projects, including Confluence and Jira. He’ll be working with KS Config Manager Scott Gibson to address performance issues and new feature requests.
Accessibility and Security resources on local campuses are being compiled. If you know of such resources on your local campus please forward information to Tim Heidinger, timh@berkeley.edu.
MIT is offering up-to-date information optimized for mobile devices. See http://mobi.mit.edu/about/ and check out an interview with Andrew Yu, the mastermind behind the effort.
Campus News
Student Affairs Holiday Party
Don’t miss an opportunity to mingle w/ our SA colleagues on Fri, Dec 19, noon to 3pm in the Alumni House on campus.
JR Schulden No Longer Interim
JR has accepted Shel’s offer to become the permanent Application Services Director for IST. Congratulations JR!
Student Liaison in VCSA’s Office
Kushal Kadakia recently joined the office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs as a student liaison. He is a junior majoring in business administration, with a minor in public policy. Let’s take advantage of Kushal’s knowledge and links to student constituencies.
December Community Council meeting included updates on ProSAM, KS, and Scheduling projects and a recap of recent Grad admission challenges, see http://students.berkeley.edu/wiki/ow.asp?MtgDec808.
Calendar
Dec
11 – KS Functional Council meeting
12 – Deadline for proposal submission to JA-SIG
19 – Berkeley Student Affairs Holiday Party
Jan
26-30 LU Development Planning – Round 2 - Berkeley
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