I think it'll help as a starting point to document what's there right now, but the biggest thing I'm looking for is some ideas about what new content we might be able to add. I'd be particularly interested in new RSS feeds and good demo targets for iframes, web proxy, and images.
- Jen On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Eric Dalquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds good, like I said feel free to let people know what you need a > hand with on the list. It sounds like there is a good amount of interest in > getting this stuff cleaned up so there may be some willing hands. > > -Eric > > Jen Bourey wrote: > > OK, that sounds fair. If we wind up in a time crunch, I think that the > very least, we could update the layouts so that they have reasonable default > column widths specified. Without any default widths, the columns all > default to 100%, which is why some of the columns on the right hand side > look squished. > > I'll try and put up a wiki page tonight. > > - Jen > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Eric Dalquist < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This sounds like a great proposal Jen. As with most things uP3 related > > my concern is time. Also this is would, in my mind, constitute a large > > enough change that I would like to have a RC3 release after this is > > complete. > > > > For that to be possible, since we're planning on GA being released > > before the conference, the work would need to be complete by March 21st. > > If this sounds reasonable to you lets get going on this and please let > > everyone on-list know what they can do to help get the layout changes > > made. > > > > Thanks! > > -Eric > > > > Jen Bourey wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > While trying out the up3 quickstart, it occurred to me that we might > > > want to put some thought into updating the default user layouts before > > > the GA release. Some of the channels are pretty old, and a few of the > > > feeds are broken. > > > > > > I was thinking it might make sense to add some new example feeds - > > > perhaps ones that might be particularly useful to end users (maybe the > > > NY Times or BBC News, or something like that) or are JA-SIG related or > > > otherwise technology focused. New image channels in addition to the > > > Daily Business Cartoon might be nice too. The number of available RSS > > > feeds has increased substantially in the last few years. > > > > > > Having updated CWebProxy and IFrame examples might be nice too. In > > > particular, it would be nice if we had a site or two with a clean, > > > small layout (not very wide, in particular) that would display nicely > > > as CWebProxy or IFrame channels. It seems like there's some content in > > > the default layout that isn't necessarily particularly interesting by > > > itself, but serves as a useful example, such as the Minesweeper > > > channel. Maybe some of these channels could be labeled as "Example > > > Applet", "Example Image Channel", etc. This might also make it more > > > clear what features the channels are intended to demonstrate. I'd > > > also love to make some of the new, cool portlets like the Google > > > search and bookmarks portlets more visible. > > > > > > I think the guest layout in particular could use some modification. > > > The DLM admin guide probably isn't the most useful thing to see as the > > > very first screen you see after downloading the quickstart. Also, I > > > don't know if that channel is actually being updated; pointing to the > > > documentation in the up3 manual and the wiki might make more sense at > > > this point. > > > It might be particularly cool to have a list of useful uPortal related > > > bookmarks in the portal. I was thinking of something that maybe had > > > links to the up3 manual, the wiki, the JA-SIG newsletter, email lists, > > > the list of uportal-driven sites, commercial partners, etc. Someday > > > it would be pretty neat if we had a way of initializing a bookmarks > > > portlet with this list. For now, that seems like a heavy list for > > > this release, but it would be easy to implement this as a CGenericXSLT > > > channel for the time being. > > > > > > Does this sound like something that might be valuable for the 3.0 > > > general release? Do you all have opinions and suggestions regarding > > > what new content we could add? If we came up with a new layout, or > > > layout modifications, I'd be more than happy to modify the layout > > > resources that are used to set up the up3 database accordingly. > > > > > > If we do decide some updates are a good idea, where might be a good > > > place in the wiki to start recording this information for > > collaboration? > > > > > > - Jen > > > > > > > > > > The dialing prefix for this number cannot be changed > > -- > Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - "Higher Education > Solutions: The Community Source Way!" > April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA > > Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and > more! > Information/Registration at: > http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html > > Subscribe to the conference blog, The Community Source > Wayhttp://jasig2008.blogspot.com, for news and updates about the event. > > Join the Conference networking site at http://ja-sigspring08.crowdvine.com/ > > You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev > > -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - "Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way!" 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