uPortal

In this 8-minute podcast, we feature an interview with Per Wising, Product Manager, Stockholm University. He discusses open source software development and the state of cyberinfrastructure in Sweden.

This 40-minute podcast recorded during the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference features James Farmer, Coordinator, Interoperability Center, Georgetown University, David W. Koehler, Director of Information Systems, CIT, Cornell University, and William G. Thompson, Jr., Associate Director, Enterprise Application Services, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey speaking on The uPortal Project. The moderator is Bradley Wheeler, VP for IT & CIO, Dean, and Professor, Indiana University.

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In this 13 minute recording, we'll hear from Ted Dodds, CIO at the University of British Columbia. Listen in as he shares some thoughts on a community source student services system.

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Sun have announced that their Sun Java System Portal Server (jsr168) system, is to be released as open source. They've already released some of the more minor components, a few portlets.

I'd like to put this down to high ideals on the part of Sun, but I find it hard. They've seen that the portal market is being consolidated by merges, both planned and in progress and they don't want to be left out in the cold. By open sourcing their portal server they place themselves to merge with the other contenders and greatly reduce the cost of supporting and maintaining the software going forward.

In this recording, Vidya Ananthanarayanan sits down with Rich Kogut to chat about his experiences with the first American research university built in the 21st century.  Learn about the challenges & opportunities presented by opening a new campus, the questions of centralization vs. decentralization, identity management, and the use of technology at UC Merced.