2011-11-21 Conference Call

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Notes for Weekly OSP Conference Call on 11-21-2011

In attendance:
Reba-Anna Lee, Marist College
Chris Mauer, Indiana University
Jacques Raynauld, MATI Montréal
Debbie Runshe, Indiana University
Janice Smith, Three Canoes
Lynn Ward, Indiana University

Agenda
1. Community Updates
    * Teaching and Learning (T&L) Group.    
          o Teaching with Sakai Webinar series tomorrow, November 22, 2011, from 4:00-5:00 PM, EST
          o Design Lenses meeting last week, discussed prototype for OAE regarding structured feedback designs, specifically for annotations (included: collections, can be shared; same item can be in multiple libraries)
                + Next meeting November 30, 2011, 5:00-6:00 PM, EST
    * Portfolio Visioning.
          o Portfolio Visioning for Sakai OAE.
                + Meeting tomorrow, November 22, 2011, 4:00-5:00 PM EST, Lynn will demo the prototype for OAE.
                + Look at what exists, what can be tweaked, info regarding feedback from URG which will also be discussed.
                + Is OSP part of OAE? Interested community. NYU's pilot does focus on portfolio functionality.
          o Portfolio Reports. - no additional information at this time.
          o Portfolio Minispecs.
                + Next meeting, December 13, 2011, 4:00-5:00 PM EST
    * OSP Help
          o Update sakai.properties documentation
          o Accessing 2.6 Help
               Help for 2.6 complete, turned over for final approval to Stephen Marquard at Capetown University
          o Completing 2.8 Help
          o Planning for 2.9 Help
    * Upgrading OSP pages on the Sakai Project website. - no additional information at this time.
          o Enhanced content and links to tool descripton and resources needed.
          o Link to OSP Community Directory
    * Consider deprecating and/or removing from the tool list in the site.template.portfolio realm the Wizards tool.
          o Wizard tool - Rutgers using and consider it very important to their OSP use.
          o Design Your Own Portfolio function hidden.
          o Portfolio Layouts
          o Make sure that there is Help available to assist people in turning these features back on.
    * Back burner items for future discussion – no additional information at this time. - no additional information at this time.
          o Recruiting OSP resources for QA or other activities.
          o Planning for Sakai 2012 Conference. (Find or make OSP Community banner for Tech Demo.)
          o Discussion of ways to alert Sakai Foundation leaders of the need to persuade Sakai (portfolio-using) institutions to put more funding into java developers working with OSP.
          o Response to Ian Dolphin's request for feedback from the OSP Community
          o Possible occasional discussion of implementation, performance, and teaching and learning issues at our various institutions

2. 2.9 QA Status Test Scripts, OSP QA 2.9 Signups with links to test scripts.
    * Resolved issues for 2.9. We need to go through this list to determine which issues need further explanation in order to clarify what needs to be tested.
          o High Priority Issues
                + 21384 - Michigan found some issues with performance IU looking into this issue.
                + 21212 - no response from Chuck regarding status.
                + permission to create portfolio site on the QA server needs admin rights; could be an impediment to testing; can be changed on QA servers on a per build basis

3. Sakai/OSP Maintenance Status (Bug fixes can be verified on the following QA servers Nightly Build (HSQLDB) or Nightly build (Oracle)). - no additional information at this time.
    * SAK-18766 Erratic Stickiness of Group and User, No page update after Manage Status in Matrices tool (UMICH).

4. Sakai Development Status (next major release cycle). - no additional information at this time.
    * SAK-19184 OSP Tools don't respect language/locale preferences (only when English is not the default locale) - Part 2.
    * SAK-16693 Roster Synchronization (pending adding optional flag, branch, test server review and trunk merge).
    * SAK-19469 Allow coordinators to view unpublished forms added/owned by another coordinator
    * SAK-19466 Unpublished forms not available to other coordinators in Portfolio Templates tool

5. OSP Community Prioritization of Open Issues. - no additional information at this time.
    * OSP Jira FIlters.

6. OSP Reports Update and Continuing Issues. --  - no additional information at this time.

7. OSP Performance Issues. - no additional information at this time.
    * SAK-20715 Matrices slow to load.

8. On the back burner. - no additional information at this time.
    * Independent OSP release cycle: action items moving forward.