This week check out the Kuali Student progress at USC and NPS, meet the SWAT Team, and learn about the collaboration of community source projects at Berkeley.
Project News
Founders Progress
At the monthly board meeting, there was an optimistic progress report on the recent Founders additions to Kuali Student. The University of Southern California will be meeting with the Board of Trustees late this month or early March. The chances for approval are looking promising.
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is still working out the commitment details of their partnering arrangement with founder San Joaquin Delta College. In addition to cash contributions, NPS is considering hiring a Technical Writer and assigning two Java programmers part-time to the project.
KRU SWAT Team Strikes
At the Leaning Unit (LU) requirement rules workshop last week in Vancouver, a SWAT Team got together to look at the broad set of requirements that define Kuali Student and narrow this down to the specific requirements, business flow and documents that will be used for Kuali Reference University (KRU).
The team comprised of representatives from each of the key functional teams: Ruth Schleifer, Michelle Appel and Erina James from the Use Case Team; Sarah Bauder and Audrey Lindsay to represent the user needs of KRU; Brittney Brokenshire from the Application Design Team, and Kristina Batiste and Cindy Nahm from the User Experience (UX) team.
Check out the team’s work on requirements for Create-a-course.
Conference Time
The conference season is beginning to pick up and Kuali Student remains actives. Richard Spencer, UBC, will be presenting on Kuali Student at AACRAO’s annual conference in April in Chicago. Additionally, session proposal were submitted to CANHEIT and Educause last week, and proposals will be submitted to AACRAO Tech will be made this week.
Team Highlights
Full Status Reports for the Functional Team and Technical Team are available for those who would like more detail on daily activities.
On Campus
@ Berkeley
CourseRank a Future KS Compliant App?
Members of the KS development team along with many campus staff enjoyed a presentation by the students who developed Stanford’s CourseRank system. Johanna Metzgar organized the event streamed live and archived at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1165781. Jump to the 28th minute for their rules like UI and the 41st minute to hear answers to questions posed by the KS development team including UX methodology, technology stack and recommendation engine and many more.
Community Source Projects to Collaborate
On Feb 6th, 15 people from 6 different community source projects got together to begin a dialog about how to align efforts. Discussion focused on coordinating service contracts and shared infrastructure needs like: workflow, rules, service bus, authorization, reporting and analysis tools, UX techniques and UI standards, developer skill sets and communications. CollectionSpace and Kuali Student staff are already working together to aligning service contracts. Attendees included reps from Kuali Student, campus infrastructure services and the following projects:
Sakai http://sakaiproject.org/portal
Collaboration and courseware management that includes learning, portfolio, library and project tools.
CollectionSpace http://www.collectionspace.org/
Description, management, and dissemination of museum collections information.
Bamboo http://projectbamboo.org/
Advancement of arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services.
Kuali Coeus http://kuali.org/communities/kc/
Enhanced support for Research Administration and Research Compliance.
Kuali Continuity (Kuali Incubator Project)
Business Continuity Planning Tool based on a Berkeley app, http://obr.berkeley.edu/BCPT.html.
Calendar
Mar
16-20 – Technical Integration - TBA
April
Late (tentative) – Application Design Team planning workshop – MIT
No comments:
Post a Comment