The Incubator Incubating Products and Communities -or- "Incubeta Jones and the Temple of Cool"

Susan Bramhall, YaleTim Carroll, University of Illinois

Benito Gonzalez, UC MercedCris Holdorph, Unicon Inc.

Benn Oshrin, The Oshrinium LL

• AND Guests *

Pete Boyson , ThinkSpaceAndy Gherna, Deployer portlet

Marvin Addison , .NET CAS clientAnthony Colebourne , Newsreader

Agenda

• Bring awareness to the incubation process• Highlight recent changes to support

communities of interest• Review the list of current projects• Demonstrate a few projects

Why Incubation?

• Spread the Jasig Community wealth to other projects

• Ensure community guided development• Mentor and sponsor projects to be as

successful as possible

Incubation Goals = Jasig Goals

• Robust projects• healthy communities• active governance

Where are we?

• Creation of Incubation Process began in 2008• Began Incubating projects while creating

process• Graduated Bedework Project May 2010• Since then 6 portlets and now, .NET CAS client

and FIFER, Community of Practice

Who are we?

• Susan Bramhall (Yale University) (chair)• Tim Carroll (University pf Illinois)• Cris Holdorph (Unicon)• Tuyhang Ly (Rutgers University)• Benito J. Gonzalez (University of California,

Merced)• Steve Swinsburg (Australian National

University)

The Incubation Process …

How to submit or start a new project

• Go to Jasig Jira ( https://issues.jasig.org/ )• Find the Incubation project• Create a new Incubation project - Candidate

Proposal issue** Fill in Summary, Description, Overview (and other required fields)– If project is a coding project, begin process of

signing ICLA/CCLA's

Resources and Support

• Mentor (who gets assigned your Incubation Jira issue) - will help you through the incubation process

• Wiki (Confluence) - an area for project documentation

• Mailing List - Jasig supported e-mail list support (hosted by University of Wisconsin)

• Subversion - Jasig source code control repository• Jira - Individual Project Issue Tracking

Exit Criteria

Legal

• CLAs• License / notice etc (mention licensing plugin)

Community

• multiple committers / institutions / adopters• future support

Governance

• Steering committee• voting• etc

Alignment & Synergy

• Integration with other Jasig projects where appropriate

• Synergy with other Jasig projects

Infrastucture

• Wiki (Confluence) - project documentation exists

• Mailing List - one or more e-mail lists exist (where this project can be discussed)

• Subversion - project source code is checked into Jasig source code repository

• Jira - project level issue tracking exists

Communities of Practice…

What is a Community of Practice• ObWikipedia: A community of practice (CoP) is, according to

cognitive anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, a group of people who share an interest, a craft, and/or a profession. The group can evolve naturally because of the members' common interest in a particular domain or area, or it can be created specifically with the goal of gaining knowledge related to their field. It is through the process of sharing information and experiences with the group that the members learn from each other, and have an opportunity to develop themselves personally and professionally (Lave & Wenger 1991).

• Jasig: A non-project group assembled to share information within and advance the state of a specific domain. A CoP will not write code, other than perhaps some proof of concept or reference work.

Current Jasig COPs

• 2-3-98: The 2-3-98 Project provides support for college and university administrators, managers, and practitioners wishing to take advantage of both openness - as an organizational and operational orientation - and open initiatives, in order to reduce costs and increase choice.

• FIFER: The FIFER (Free IDM Framework for Education & Research) initiative is intended to advance the development and adoption of open source identity management software for higher education. This initiative is a direct result of conversations among identity management architects, application developers, and campus technologists who have identified a need for increased availability and promotion of affordable, sustainable, and suitable identity solutions for their campuses. (Also, FIFER-API)

COP - Incubation Process

• Somewhat lighter weight than for projects, owing largely to lack of issues around maintenance of code.

What’s Incubating

What’s Incubating?

• IT Ecosystem• Bookmarks Portlet• Exchange Mail and Calendar Portlet• Content Management Portlet• Widget Portlets• Confluence Portlet and Plugin

Showcase Confluence Portlet…

What’s Incubating?

• Basic LTI Portlet• Self Service Accounts Portlet• Sakai connector• Simple RSS Portlet• Scheduling Assistant• NewsReaderPortlet

Showcase News Reader Portlet…

What’s Incubating?

• esup-helpdesk• OpenRegistry• Native Mobile App for uPortal (uMobile)• Search Portlet• Xythos Portlet and Plugin• ThinkSpace

Showcase ThinkSpace…

What’s Incubating?

• maven-notice-plugin• Spring Portlet MVC JSR-168 Archetype• Functional Tests Portlet• Deployer Portlet

Showcase Deployer Portlet…

Recently Graduated…

• FIFER Community of Practice• .NET CAS Client

Showcase CAS .Net…

Questions?

https://wiki.jasig.org/display/INCU/Incubation+Process