1. Monday, 3 June 13

2. Ian Dolphin, Apereo Executive Director
ian.dolphin@apereo.org
Monday, 3 June 13
Introduction.
Here to to do some housekeeping.
To provide you with a snapshot overview of where we are in this formative stage of our existence.
And to ask some questions you might like to consider and discuss during the week.

3. Monday, 3 June 13
Thanks all our sponsors, and our Gold Sponsors, Asahi Net and Longsight.
These events would be a lot more expensive for participants without their help
Show of appreciation...

4. Housekeeping
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Monday, 3 June 13
Thanks to planning committee, program committee, social events committee.
And thanks to those who organise Apereo events elsewhere - the Apereo, Sakai and ESUP events in Japan, Europe, South Africa
and Mexico which have already taken place this year and drawn around 340 attendees

5. ... and welcome Apereo
A new non profit organisation
registered in New Jersey ...
... here’s a word from a New Jersey
resident on the merger of Jasig and Sakai
Monday, 3 June 13
I’m here to welcome you, but we’re all here to welcome Apereo.

6. Mission
“... collaborate to foster, develop, and
sustain open technologies and
innovation to support learning,
teaching, and research."
Monday, 3 June 13
to assist and facilitate educational organizations which ... [mission]
Focus on academic mission delivery NOT on administration.
Combine Jasig - application and infrastructure and Sakai’s teaching learning and research focus

7. 72
Monday, 3 June 13
“State of the Foundation” Notes
Still two-thirds US based - but growing internationally
Move from being a US organisation with groups elsewhere to being
An international organization with a strong US presence
Opportunities: India and Latin America

8. ESUP -
TextText
73 French Universities
80% French
Higher Education
Monday, 3 June 13
Adapt, localize, create open source software - Contribute to i8n efforts - Participate in incubation
process - contribute code (uMobile) - contribute to adoption (Sakai CLE as MOOC for French
Higher Ed, sponsored by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research

9. New Board
Monday, 3 June 13
Most global board - Japan, France, Australia, United Kingdom, United States
Spread of institutions - research intensives and others
Mix of CIO’s and Senior Managers, software developers
In many ways, the most diverse board I’ve worked with -
- and Theresa’s keynote subject is about one of the obvious gaps in that diversity ...

10. Foundation Priorities
1 Focus on
projects &
communities
Monday, 3 June 13
the first priority runs through *all* our work ...

11. Current Foundation Priorities
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Complete legal work
Redevelop website
Rationalise infrastructure
Incubation review
Advisory Council
Strategic planning
Monday, 3 June 13
So I’m going to spend 10 minutes talking about legal intricacies.
just checking you were awake ...
Some of this stuff will be invisible - it’s background, bread and butter work ...

12. Monday, 3 June 13
Some is much more visible
New web site will be built in stages - next stage involves re-presentation of project material
and a focal point for many of our regional groups
Future work includes matchmaking support. We want this site to become a community hub.

13. Advisory Council
Michael
Feldstein
Monday, 3 June 13
Advisory Council of senior figures from institutions inside and outside the Apereo Community.
Michael Feldstein taking point on putting that together
Announcement on web site this week

14. Advisory Council
Monday, 3 June 13
Now when I googled for an image of Michael for that slide, I go an interesting result
Casey Green, and some of the other connections I got, but what’s [click] that about?
Anything we should know?

15. Board Strategic Planning
Monday, 3 June 13
Statement this week -
Role of the Board
How Apereo fits the Higher Education landscape
Apereo Project Portfolio
Incubation & Software Lifecycle
Priorities for immediate action
More on this on Thursday in my closing comments

16. Incubation
http://www.apereo.org/incubation
Monday, 3 June 13
Identified incubation as an essential piece of how we support the software lifecycle.
How innovation becomes sustainable.
Reviewing former Jasig process. Part of that review is an extensive survey of community opinion.
More in a session this week, but the online survey is open until the end of the conference.
Even if you skip some questions, please contribute to the survey results.

17. Software Communities
and Projects
Monday, 3 June 13
20,000 feet view of SOME of our projects - not time for even a basic scorecard on all of them
Plenty of opportunities to catch up this week

18. Project Health - uPortal
Monday, 3 June 13
UPortal Steering Group, committers, portlet contributors - anyone associated with uPortal -
Calendar, Notification portlets, Event tracking an analytics tools
seven patch releases,

19. Project(s) Health - Mobile
• uMobile - leverages uPortal for mobile
• Oakland deploys IOS app as MySail
• UPMC Sorbonne, Normandie, La Rochelle
deploy browser based version
• Keitai - enriched services for CLE
• Leverage between initiatives explored
Monday, 3 June 13
New Keitai initiative work in Sakai CLE going very well -
ESUP code contributions to uMobile

20. Project Health - Bedework
• Bedework 3.9 Released January 2013
• Event registration module added
• Solr indexing
• New adopters -
■ New Haven Public Library
■ San Diego Public Library
• Scheduling assistant incorporated
Monday, 3 June 13
New release, new adoptions.
Major calendaring event coinciding with ours (hmm .. need a better calendaring solution), but session where you can find out
more this week.

21. Project Health - Sakai CLE
• 2.9 - a major release
• Performance improvements
• Look and feel improvements
• Lessons now part of core
• Improved GradeBook, Tests & Quizzes,
forums, messages ... and more
Monday, 3 June 13
Great work that Rutgers did with Lessons is now in core. 2.92 release the other day. Significant improvements in perfromance
scaleability and tools.
Sakai CLE pushing into new, if related areas - HEC Montreal, Amsterdam, French HE MOOCs - using CLE at scale.
New adoptions. NYU completed transition from Blackboard.

22. Project Health - CAS
• CAS 3.5.2 latest general release
• Continued improvements
• Widely adopted in higher ed (& outside!)
• Ecosystem of open source extensions
• New committers
Monday, 3 June 13
Remember where CAS, our widely used single sign on solution came from - Yale CAS - Yale moved CAS to Jasig almost ten years
ago

23. Project Health - Apereo OAE
Monday, 3 June 13
[Note: Spend no more than 3 minutes...]
Project partner departures last June-August - Meeting the challenge of scaleability - new technology stack
Very significant progress - testament to team
New investor - Marist. Project capitalised for next year. Incubation when new process initiated
Questions about how our community organises projects -
Very large investments make projects brittle - and a smaller project here seems to be achieving more.
Not the only question posed there -
Something to reflect on during the course of the week. Return to that on Thursday.

24. Monday, 3 June 13
This week is about Apereo, which means it’s about you, and about those who cant be here, but who participate in our
community. Without active participants, our community is nothing.
We talk a lot about code contributions, and they’re important. But active participation can take a variety of forms -it can be
simply through the contribution of your time, and your own specific expertise.
We really are about valuing diversity, and about building a culture of contribution. I believe this week marks a vital stage in that.
Welcome again, and have a great week!

25. Challenges, Encouragement, and Women in
IT - Does it Matter?
Theresa Rowe, Chief Information Officer,
Oakland University
Monday, 3 June 13