The uPortal Project James Farmer, Georgetown University David W. Koehler, Cornell University William G. Thompson, Jr., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Brad Wheeler, Indiana University (Moderator) 2007 EDUCAUSE Catalyst Award Winner

“This award program recognizes innovations and initiatives centered on information technologies that provide groundbreaking solutions to major challenges in higher education, or change prevailing conditions in remarkable ways so as to allow new solutions to be developed and deployed…” Catalyst Award

“…The awards recognize initiatives that affect or are readily extensible to many environments within higher education and even a broader community. Initiatives must have come out of, or been aggressively and creatively adapted for, and benefited higher education; the primary, stakeholder interest must be within higher Such efforts are often collaborative in nature, and their significance may not be evident for several years.” Catalyst Award

The uPortal Story Origins, Motivations?

January, 2000Brown University May, 2000 Yale University October, 2000 Princeton University February, 2001 University of Delaware March, 2001 University of British Columbia September, 2001Columbia University March, 2002University of New Mexico August, 2002Memorial University of Newfoundland March, 2003 SCT, Inc. August, 2003Cornell University February, 2004Arizona State University August, 2004MIT March, 2005 Unicon, Inc. September, 2005 Indiana University -- Purdue University Indianapolis March, 2006 Rutgers University September, 2006University of Wisconsin at Madison April, 2007 Johns Hopkins University Developer Meetings

Conferences December, 1999Orlando, Florida July, 2000Monterey, California February, 2001Destin, Florida June, 2001La Jolla, California December, 2001Destin, Florida June, 2002Vancouver, BC, Canada December, 2002Orlando, Florida June, 2003Denver, Colorado December, 2003Miami, Florida June, 2004Denver, Colorado December, 2004New Orleans, Louisiana June, 2005Baltimore, Maryland December, 2005Austin, Texas June, 2006Vancouver, BC, Canada December, 2006Atlanta, Georgia June, 2007Denver, Colorado

uPortal Releases 2007 uPortal User Experience User Experience Enhancements, Drag-and-drop 2006 uPortal Platform Evolution Luminus DLM, Platform Refactoring 2005 uPortal Open Integration WSRP, multiple-LDAP servers, Apache Commons 2004 uPortal Standards Support JSR-168, RSS, Person Attributes Group Store (PAGS) uPortal 2.1/2.2 - Enterprise Ready Groups management, layout fragments, I18N uPortal Early Adopters New Technical Architecture based on XML and Java

The uPortal Story Critical Decisions and Actions?

The uPortal Story What makes uPortal a “success”?

Lessons? Is uPortal a one-off success?

Future? What happens now?

The uPortal Project James Farmer, Georgetown University David W. Koehler, Cornell University William G. Thompson, Jr., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Brad Wheeler, Indiana University (Moderator) 2007 EDUCAUSE Catalyst Award Winner