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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> announcements@apereo.org [mailto:announcements@apereo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Lucy Appert<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 07 November 2015 15:46<br>
<b>To:</b> announcements@apereo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [apereo-announcements] Apereo Newsletter -- November 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Apereo Newsletter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">November 7, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Upcoming Events</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">1) Open Apereo 2016 To Be Held at New York University</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">2) Apereo South Africa 2016 Conference</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">3) MyUW Presentation & Hangout Nov. 11</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">4) Upcoming Monthly Mighty Project Site Group Showcases</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">5) Learning Analytics Events @ University of Amsterdam, Dec. 8-11, 2015</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">6) Marist College Joins Open Source Initiative</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">7) UW-Madison Web Application Developer Opening</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">8) Sakai’s Review Accessibility (RA11y) Plan: Fully Funded & At Work on Phase 1</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">9) Join the Marist Diwali Celebration in Apereo OAE Nov. 9-13</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">10) NYU Steinhardt Uses Sakai for Professional Development, Course Innovation Grant </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">11) Conference @ HEC Montreal - Oct. 2, 2015</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Project News & Releases</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">12) Xerte Project News</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">13) Opencast 2.1 Release on Dec. 8</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">14) Sakai 11 PA System Tool</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">15) Update from the Fall 2015 Karuta Meeting in Montréal</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">We are in the midst of a full season of Apereo community events, and this month's newsletter brings reports of those past as well as many upcoming. There are so many opportunities
to learn more and get involved in all areas of community work!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">The newsletter also provides an opportunity to share what you're doing and invite others to join. We are looking for contributions of all kinds -- examples might include
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">-- How you’re using software produced by an Apereo community at your institution<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">-- Major releases or minor tweaks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">-- Ideas for new projects you’d like to get feedback on or gauge interest in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">-- Important discussions of general educational technology issues that emerge on community email lists<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Contributions of all lengths, from snippet to think pieces, are welcome. Send your submissions (and any questions!) to
<u><a href="mailto:newsletter@apereo.org">newsletter@apereo.org</a></u> .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Deadline for items for the next newsletter is Monday, November 30.</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Lucy Appert, Newsletter Editor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">1) Open Apereo 2016 To Be Held at New York University</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">I am pleased to announce that Open Apereo 2016 will take place at New York University's Washington Square campus in New York City on the 24th and 25th May 2016. The event
will be preceded by a day we're calling the “Open Summit” - an opportunity for open initiatives in education to share best practices, state-of-the art and strategic directions. Apereo is leading the development of this event together with the Open Source Initiative
(OSI). We believe it will be a significant opportunity to develop alignments and meeting points across a range of higher ed open activities. Registration, program and hotel information will become available over the coming months – but hold the 22nd-25th May!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">As in previous years, we're seeking the maximum involvement of the Apereo Community in organizing the conference. If you would like to serve on the Program or Planning Committee
for Open Apereo 2016, please drop me a line at <a href="mailto:ian.dolphin@apereo.org">
ian.dolphin@apereo.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">-- Ian Dolphin, Executive Director, Apereo Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">2) Apereo South Africa 2016 Conference</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">The APEREO SA 2016 conference will be held on premise at UNISA in Pretoria, South Africa on the 9th and 10th of March 2016. No registration fees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Contact:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">
<a href="mailto:elsabe@opencollab.co.za">elsabe@opencollab.co.za</a> | +27 12 640 3517 | +27 82 463 1919<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"> -- Elsabe Botha<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">3) MyUW Presentation & Hangout Nov. 11</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">A Hangout, on Air no less, on November 11th, at 2pm Central, surveying the new MyUW and the software components that make it up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">The idea is a broad, feature-focused, product-focused presentation, showing and talking through what features the new MyUW is delivering, what's working, and emphasizing
that this is built with free and open source components backed by a uPortal instance. Other campuses can be inspired to implement parts of this locally. Others gain a leg up on progress, MyUW gains potential collaborators. Everyone wins.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><a href="https://plus.google.com/events/cu1qpp19uelsedr3h6qirkpvgbs">https://plus.google.com/events/cu1qpp19uelsedr3h6qirkpvgbs</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">This follows up on the hopes articulated by uPortal steering at <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.jasig.uportal/18512">http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.jasig.uportal/18512</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"> -- Andrew Petro<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">4) Upcoming Monthly Mighty Project Site Group Showcases</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"> Ever wish you could see and explore what other institutions are doing with Sakai? Do you feel you may be using project sites in a unique way and wondering who else out
there may be doing the same? The Mighty Project Site group exists for these very reasons!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">This group originated as a result of a session at 2014’s Sakai Virtual Conference, and has been meeting monthly ever since. This collaborative and supportive group includes
teaching faculty, educational technologists, and IT personnel, which spans back-end/administrator, front-end/trainer, and teacher expertise with Sakai. Our mission is to work towards benchmarking standards of use of project sites in Sakai through collaboration
and showcasing of our institutions’ instances of Sakai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Our upcoming monthly meetings will be a series of Sakai showcases, during which the presenter will highlight a variety of aspects about their instance, such as use of course
vs. project sites, common tools, roles/permissions, general support challenges, site host, site creation policies, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">If you want to see what other institutions are doing, then don’t miss out!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">The dates, and “showcasers”, are as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">· Nov 9, 2015 – Trisha Gordon, University of Virginia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">· Dec 14, 2015 – Jennifer Loudiana, Walsh University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">· Jan 11, 2016 – Sarah Kentner, Loyola University Chicago<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">· Feb 8, 2016 – Harold Hale, Antioch University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">· March 14, 2016 – Adam Marshall, University of Oxford<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">· April 11, 2016 – Rebecca Taylor, Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">If you’d like to join in, or would like to request more information, please email Rebecca Taylor at
<a href="mailto:rtaylor@cmcc.ca">rtaylor@cmcc.ca</a>!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">-- Rebecca Taylor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">5) Learning Analytics Events @ University of Amsterdam, Dec. 8-11, 2015</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">The Apereo Learning Analytics Initiative (LAI) in conjunction with SURF, LACE, and the ICTServices at the University of Amsterdam are pleased to announce two events. The
first is a national code jam based on the Open Dashboard. This two-day event will consist of hacking at learner activity data and creating supporting dashboards. This is the third of a series of code jams; the last event was at LAK15. The infrastructure provided
includes the full range of applications in Apereo LAI’s arsenal. We plan to follow on the code jam with further opportunities including a hackathon supported by the JISC national LA infrastructure as part of LAK16.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">The second event is a one-day International seminar also held at the University of Amsterdam and sponsored by LACE on the subject of Institutional readiness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">If you find yourself in Holland and have a coding/community/planning itch, please join us. If you have any further questions or wish to replicate or share resources from
an event, feel free to contact Alan Berg: <a href="mailto:analytics-coordinator@apereo.org">
analytics-coordinator@apereo.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">-- Alan Berg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Announcements:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">6) Marist College Joins Open Source Initiative</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Many within the Apereo community may not know that the Apereo Foundation is an Affiliate Member of the Open Source Initiative (<a href="http://opensource.org">http://opensource.org</a>),
as is the Xerte Project (<a href="http://www.xerte.org.uk/index.php?lang=en">http://www.xerte.org.uk/index.php?lang=en</a>) which recently graduated from Apereo Incubation (<a href="https://www.apereo.org/incubation">https://www.apereo.org/incubation</a>).
In June of 2015 the OSI announced the extension of its Affiliate Member Program to include institutions of higher education (<a href="http://opensource.org/node/752">http://opensource.org/node/752</a>) and in August announced admission of its first member
form the higher ed community, the University of Souther Queensland (<a href="http://opensource.org/node/770">http://opensource.org/node/770</a>). This month the OSI announced Marist College has joined as well. Marist is an important supporter and contributor
to not only the advancement of open source software within colleges and universities, but within the Apereo Foundation as well. The OSI is very excited that their experiences in adoption, development and advocacy can inform the OSI's work within higher education
and help shape the Affiliate Member Program to best serve institutions exploring, using and producing open source software.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">The OSI welcomes and thanks the Apereo community--the projects, the people, and the institutions--for all of your support of open source software. Affiliate Membership is
available at no charge and allows institutions of higher education to directly participate in the development and direction of the Open Source Initiative. You can learn more about the OSI's Affiliate Member Program, its benefits and how your institution can
join, at: <a href="http://opensource.org/affiliates">http://opensource.org/affiliates</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">-- Patrick Masson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">7) UW-Madison Web Application Developer Opening</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">UW-Madison is looking for someone to join the MyUW portal team. If you have had the opportunity to meet some of our team members online or at a conference, you likely know
it is a fun and lively team proudly delivering an innovative uPortal-based solution to over 100,000 students and staff throughout the University of Wisconsin System. We offer a lot of flexibility and are very family friendly! To learn more or to apply, see
<a href="https://www.doit.wisc.edu/jobs/web-application-developer/">https://www.doit.wisc.edu/jobs/web-application-developer/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">-- Jim Helwig<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">8) Sakai’s Review Accessibility (RA11y) Plan: Fully Funded & At Work on Phase 1</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">The RA11Y Plan (Review Accessibility Plan - accessibility drops 11 words, and looks like a pair of letter l’s, to make “<i>rally</i>”) is an initiative by the Sakai Accessibility
Working Group to commission a substantive review of Sakai’s accessibility by a respected third-party with a goal of obtaining a certification, including a VPAT and WCAG2-based review, that would assure potential adopters and current users alike.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">The plan itself is outlined here
<a href="https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/2ACC/rA11y+Plan">https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/2ACC/rA11y+Plan</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">The Sakai Accessibility Working Group would like to thank the organizations that pledged $61,000 and 60 hours of in-kind development. Thanks to: Apereo, Durham Tech University,
Tufts University, Oxford University, Pepperdine University, Longsight, and Brock University.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Everyone involved in creating Sakai and other Apreo projects wants our projects to have a positive impact on all who encounter them. Sakai has a good history of accessibility
but resources are limited and new developments in Sakai need to be reviewed and brought up to standard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">The rA11y plan address the Sakai project’s need to transition from a project with deep resources around accessibility testing within it to seeking out commercial support
with community funds to support the work. These ebbs and flows of resources are typical of many long-term projects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Members of the Sakai Accessibility Working Group are currently selecting a respected third party to review of Sakai 11’s accessibility. After the group is selected and
completes a report based on sample content and configurations of Sakai, the work on other requirements associated with report will be brought to the community for remediation and review. Through commissioning work and asking for volunteers to work on areas
of interest, Sakai can work towards not only being a being a more accessible LMS, but also one that can make that claim with certainty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">To learn more about this initiative please check-out the rA11y plan web site at
<a href="https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/2ACC/rA11y+Plan">https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/2ACC/rA11y+Plan</a>, join the Sakai Accessibility Working Group bi-weekly call (detals at
<a href="https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/2ACC/Sakai+Accessibility+Working+Group+Teleconference">
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/2ACC/Sakai+Accessibility+Working+Group+Teleconference</a> ) or follow the Sakai Development mailing list<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">-- Matt Clare and The Sakai Accessibility Working Group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">9) Join the Marist Diwali Celebration in Apereo OAE Nov. 9-13</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">At Marist College this fall, the department of Academic Technology, the Center for MultiCultural Affairs, and the School of Communication and the Arts, along with our international
students from India have all partnered to create a multifaceted Diwali celebration. We have already held a successful workshop on rangoli (sand painting) and are working on the culmination of our Diwali celebration that will take place November 9th - 13th.
Throughout the week, on our campus we will be having an Indian exhibit, displaying artifacts, photographs, jewelry, and clothing. We will hold mehendi workshops (henna hand painting) and then culminating the week with a celebratory fashion show and party
with food, music and dance. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">In addition, we are sharing our story of building and celebrating Diwali via the Open Academic Environment (OAE) and we are inviting other institutions to share their stories,
pictures and videos as well. Joining is easy -- just click here: <a href="https://network.unity.ac/signup">
https://network.unity.ac/signup</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">PS. If you are sharing your celebrations on any other social media site, please use #mydiwali #my(insert your campus name) for example: #mydiwali #mymarist #myoxford <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">-- Dede Hourican<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">10) NYU Steinhardt Uses Sakai for Professional Development, Course Innovation Grant </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">This summer Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at NYU hosted its first Course Innovation Grant program supporting the development of technology-enhanced
courses. Thirteen faculty (representing twelve courses) were selected for the inaugural eight-week professional development program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">The goal of the course innovation grant was twofold: to support individual course enhancements and to provide a group professional development experience for faculty. For
the twelve courses enhanced with technology, approximately seven leveraged Sakai as a primary technology resource, supporting flipped and blended environments to fully online courses. Almost all courses involved used at least more than one technology solution
within their newly enhanced courses. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">The professional development component leveraged Sakai as the online course site environment. A curriculum was developed based on the ADDIE model, an instructional design
framework. Faculty members were enrolled within a course site as students where they submitted assignments, participated in online discussions and interacted with weekly modules released by the Lessons tool. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">-- Jeffrey Lane<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">11) Conference Report: HEC Montreal - Oct. 2, 2015 :</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">
<b>"L'éducation supérieure à l‘ère du logiciel libre. Partage d'expériences en France, au Québec et à l'international."</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Apereo along with ESUP-Portail, its sister organization, were invited to participate in a conference dedicated to open source in Higher Education in Montreal. Representatives
of both foundations were able to share their experience on how to develop and promote open source solutions in higher ed institutions. Participants were given a glimpse of projects such as OAE, Karuta, and the Learning Analystics Initiative to illustrate how
our model, based on collaboration, helps achieve great things and how it benefits the Higher Ed community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Another session focused on the ESUP-Portail Consortium to describe its goals and organization (<i>the community, the working groups, its relationship with the French Ministry
of Higher Ed, etc.</i>), explain its involvement with the Apereo Foundation and provide examples of actual projects conducted at a national level.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">The panel discussion was a highlight of the event and a perfect way to conclude that conference as it helped the audience better understand our missions and how we implement
them by pooling resources, building partnership with organizations with similar goals, and using an incubation process, among other strategies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">-- Mathilde Guerin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Project News & Releases</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">12) Xerte Project News</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">The Xerte Project’s team of developers are working toward the release of Xerte Online Toolkits v3.1 at the end of November. v3.1 will be the team’s second release in 2015,
and will contain a number of new features and fixes. In particular, the release will include a completely overhauled setup utility, with thanks to Leonard Johnson; the first steps toward a much more responsive suite of templates, with responsive text adapting
to different sized windows and devices, a new ‘dictation’ template that will complement the existing templates designed with language learning in mind. We’ve noticed that the new themes introduced in v3.0 are really popular with our users and we have extended
the range of themes available. We have also fixed dozes of issues that have surfaced since the release of v3.1 back in the summer: v3.1 will be our best release to date!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">-- Julian Tenney<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">13) Opencast 2.1 Release on Dec. 8</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">As next major release, Opencast 2.1 is to be released on December 8, 2015. The release process strives forward and we are currently in the public QA phase. Test servers
can be found at:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"> -
<a href="http://octestallinone.virtuos.uos.de">http://octestallinone.virtuos.uos.de</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"> -
<a href="http://testallinone.usask.ca">http://testallinone.usask.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Opencast 2.1 brings several small additions to the administrative user interface and the player, but most importantly, it upgrades at lot of the underlying OSGI architecture
by switching to Apache Karaf as new OSGI runtime.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Apart from this major release, the 1.6.3 maintenance release is planned for November 1st and the 2.0.2 maintenance release for December 15th.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"> -- Lars Kiesow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">14) Sakai 11 PA System Tool</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">The PA System tool, available in the upcoming Sakai 11 release, provides application administrators with the ability to deliver customizable system-wide or targeted alerts
to users in their Sakai instance. These may take the form of dismissible, rich-text popup alerts or simple text banners, color-coded by alert severity. All alerts are centrally managed through the PA System tool within the Sakai Admin Workspace and can also
be controlled via a set of RESTful APIs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Popup alerts are modal windows that users see upon logging into the system. These popups may be temporarily or permanently dismissed by the user. The content of these alerts
allow for rich HTML content/formatting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Banner alerts, similar to notification banners in mobile operating systems, appear at the top of the user interface and are designed for delivering simple and concise information
to users. These alerts can be pushed to all users or a targeted subset of users. Furthermore, banner alerts can be delivered on all servers of a Sakai instance or to only selected servers. There are three different types of banners in the PA System, color-coded
by alert severity:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans"">Blue (Low Severity)</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans""> - can be dismissed by the user<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans"">Yellow (Medium Severity)</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans""> - can be hidden (minimized) by the user<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans"">Red (High Severity)</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans""> - can be neither dismissed nor hidden by the user<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">The PA System is available for testing in the Sakai nightly trunk build.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">-- Kyle Blythe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">15) Update from the Fall 2015 Karuta Meeting in Montréal</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Members of the project team for the Karuta Open Source Portfolio met at HEC Montréal in Montréal, Canada, September 28 to October 1, 2015. At our meeting we worked with
our Apereo mentors, Ian Dolphin and Jaeques Koeman, to finalize progress toward graduating from Apereo incubation. We also increased the visibility of Karuta in the French-speaking world through a presentation by Jacques Raynauld and Eric Giraudin at the “Higher
Education in the Era of Open Source: Sharing the Experiences of France and Quebec Internationally” conference that took place in Montréal on Friday, October 2.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">The most significant work to take place in our four-day work session is the development of a new user interface for Karuta to replace the software’s plain vanilla look and
feel. The new interface is already in testing and will be added to an upcoming release of Karuta 2.0 targeted for February 2016. A highlight of the new interface is the ability of institutions to easily add their own banner and institutional colors to Karuta
pages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Developers at the meeting did an extensive code review along with additional performance testing. Given ample server memory and a sufficient number of processors, when there
are at least two seconds between different Karuta log-ins and/or users opening portfolios, the performance of Karuta is excellent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Functional team members at the meeting worked on new terminology to differentiate Karuta portfolios from rubrics, portfolio components, dashboards, reports, and batch files.
In addition, a simple use case with an accompanying workbook is being designed for the admin welcome page in order to provide direction to new Karuta designers. The functional team also documented current institutional use cases for improved sharing on the
project website and for use in conference presentations on Karuta.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">-- Janice Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">Discover more about Apereo by visiting
<a href="http://www.apereo.org">www.apereo.org</a> or subscribe to our announcements and open discussion lists by sending mail to
<a href="mailto:announcements%2Bsubscribe@apereo.org">announcements+subscribe@apereo.org</a> and
<a href="mailto:open%2Bsubscribe@apereo.org">open+subscribe@apereo.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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