This week, see the progress of the joint meeting of the Functional Council and Steering Committee, check out the number of people who keep checking out KS, and meet your fellow project members in the new Project Profiles.
Project News
Getting Together
In a joint meeting between the Functional Council and Steering Committee produced lively and valuable discussion on the progress and next steps for Kuali Student. Notable items were:
Reviewed Scope for Release 1.0, including the Release naming conventions; the items removed from the scope; and began clarification of scope based on additional information.
Initiated project for Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about Kuali Student, Kuali Reference University, and Release 1.0. With initial focus on Release 1.0, the FAQs, both functional and technical, are being prepared for internal project team use, for implementing teams use, and for external community communications. Questions are being collected in comments section of Release 1 FAQs wiki page, where answers will be posted
Growing Interest
While Kuali Student continues to make progress, interest from the outside also progresses. Since November, when the revamped Kuali Student Web site debuted, the number of visitors has grown steadily. Without significant external outreach in recent months, the Web site is receiving more than 1,000 visitors each month and they are spending more and more time looking through the site.
| Month | Visits | % Change | Visitors | Page Views |
Feb 09 | 1,073 | -6.3 | 686 | 4,039 |
Jan 09 | 1,145 | +57.3 | 796 | 3,963 |
Dec 08 | 728 | +32.6 | 501 | 2,321 |
Nov 08 | 549 | N/A | 344 | 1,338 |
Interest can be expected to grow further as we move into conference season and as Kuali Student moves closer to Release 1.0.
Project Profiles
In an attempt to better know our fellow project members, KS Insider will regularly profile members of Kuali Student. This will allow us to better understand their roles, their background, and who they are. Since I can’t ask anyone to do something that I wouldn’t be willing to do myself, I will be the first under the microscope… the next one could be YOU.
Where: University of Maryland, College Park
Role/Team: Project Communications Manager for Kuali Student
Before KS: Was a communications manager for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Energy’s ENERGY STAR program.
Outside Interest: Live music, travel and sports, notably a small golf addiction.
Something to Know: In informal situations, I have been called “Shep” since about the age of 8. In a project with an abundance of Scotts, it has already proved useful.
Team Highlights
On the Tech side, Team 1 completed primitive wrapper widgets and vetting the first round of wireframe. The full status reports from the Tech Team is available on the Kuali Student wiki.
On Campus
@ Berkeley
UC System IT Architecture Group (ITAG) Assesses Kuali Rice
A group of architects from the 10 UC campuses recently reviewed Kuali Rice and other middleware components for potential use within UC. "Kuali Rice is a promising project... however, is not sufficient as middleware for a broad interoperability effort among the UCs...there are a number of issues that ITAG would like to have clarified before Rice can be considered as a candidate for the UC infrastructure." See info about their assessment and their report at https://spaces.ais.ucla.edu/display/ucitag/Kuali+Rice+Assessment.
KS Team at Advising Conference 
Johanna, James, Russell and Sara led a series of round table discussions at a Feb 25th College of Letters & Science Undergraduate Advising event. The KS table was the most popular table at the event with advisers wanting info about project status and potential impact on their daily routines. The KS team used the event to identify and recruit advisors to participate in R1 implementation and R2 development.
Mar
19 Functional Council
26 Joint Functional Council / Steering Committee
April
14-16 Release 2 Methodology Workshop - Tallahassee
14-16 EDUCAUSE West - SF
21-23 Bus Req Workshop - Seattle
20, 24 UX Workshop – Seattle
28-5/1 App Design Workshop – Boston
May
TBD Technical Integation Workshop - TBD
27-28 Google I/O - SF
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