Profile2

December 2009 was a short but productive month. I worked with the Karen Tsao (Stanford) on Test & Quizzes, Nuno Fernandes (Universidade Fernando Pessoa) on SiteStats, Megan May (Indiana) on Messages and Forums, Chuck Severance (Michigan) on BasicLTI and Steve Swinsburg (Australian National University) on Profile2/profile classic. My contribution involved refactoring each project's Maven pom files and adding an assembly module in order to automate the generation of stable tags and binaries.

In announcing the set of Product Council decisions two weeks ago, I'd mentioned that Profile2 had been given an additional two weeks to resolve concerns about institutional commitment and its use of the TinyURLService.

Occasionally, people wonder what the Sakai Foundation staff do in support of the Sakai Community.  Below is a summary of my work since the Sakai Conference held in Boston in July 2009:

This past Wednesday, in the waning hours before the holiday in the US, the Product Council gathered to reach its first set of decisions: what new tools and capabilities were ready to go forward into the 2.7 release.