Hello Jim H, I don't see the logo or back-link as a deal breaker either, but what size is the logo? Also, what do they consider "commercial users"? I know we consider Higher Ed as "non-commercial", but do they?
thanks, Brad On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 21:22 -0600, Jim Helwig jim.helwig-at-doit.wisc.edu |JASIG-List-2| wrote: > I don't see a logo or link back as a problem. Since our primary focus is > higher education, I don't see the fact that commercial users need to contact > AccuWeather as a problem. From the sounds of it, this seems like a good > option. > > It would be nice to see if this portlet could be implemented in a way that > one could fairly easily plug in alternative weather feeds if they were > concerned about this. > > My two cents, > JimH > > on 2/13/2008 7:16 PM Dustin S. said the following: > > I have recently been in contact with AccuWeather.com to explore the > > possibility of using their services for weather data. > > > > AccuWeather.com's services are used in one of the most popular Firefox > > add-ons: ForecastFox. If you are unfamiliar with AccuWeather you can > > visit http://www.accuweather.com/ > > > > AccuWeather.com's people have been very friendly and nice to work with > > and have setup an XML weather service for uPortal to use in the weather > > portlet. An example: > > http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803&metric=1 > > > > <http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803&metric=1> > > > > Use of their service in the weather portlet would require an AccuWeather > > logo and a link back to their site. The feed would be available without > > permission for all non-commercial users assuming they retain the logo > > and link back. They would like any commercial users to contact > > AccuWeather for permission to use the data. They said that commercial > > users are generally not a concern unless they are a large commercial > > user that could cause an overload to their servers. > > > > AccuWeather has /extensive/ international coverage of weather as well as > > /extensive /weather data and they seem to be very willing to work with us. > > > > I would really like to use AccuWeather's service but I'm not sure the > > commercial aspects would be acceptable to have this portlet included in > > UP3 hence the reason for this post. > > > > What does everyone else think? > > > > -- > > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] 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!" 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 You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
