Unfortunately, if it's not international-friendly, then it's not really viable for Jasig...
-Jonathan On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Domazlicky, Eric <[email protected]>wrote: > This isn't a very international-friendly suggestion, but I for one would > advocate using the National Digital Forecast Database Web Service: > > http://www.nws.noaa.gov/xml/ > > > > Of course this only covers the United States, but this seems like a viable > non-commercial option. > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Parker Grimes > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:16 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [uportal-dev] Important Weather Portlet Information > > > > I just got off the phone with a representative from Accuweather. They were > generous enough to setup a weather feed specifically for the uPortal > community and that feed has driven the Weather Portlet that is bundled with > uPortal. Unfortunately, they discovered that someone outside higher ed has > gotten a hold of the the uPortal weather feed and has been using it in a > mobile phone app. They have seen a huge spike in traffic on the uportal feed > which violates the terms of use that we were given. They will be shutting it > down immediately. Before you get too upset, they reserved the right in their > terms of use (that is included in the Weather Portlet source distribution) > to discontinue the feed if they deemed necessary. > > > > With that said, they still want to provide a data feed for the uPortal > community. We will just have to go about things differently. We can no > longer publish the data feed url in a publicly available place. I haven't > quite figured out how that will be accomplished and I am open to ideas. > > > > > Parker Grimes > > Programmer Analyst Supervisor > > Information Technology Department > > Southern Utah University > > > > -- > > 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 > > -- > > 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 > > -- 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
