I heard of this product about a year ago, through NERCOMP. Just today I noticed that NERCOMP has negotiated a licensing agreement with them - giving members (us) special pricing over the normal academic pricing. This might be worth looking into further.
Uportal is a free portal under development by institutions of higher-education.
The platfrom is based on Java, XML, JSP and J2EE.
Digital Archive Systems (DAS) can be used to capture, store, index, preserve, and distribute digital content. Such a system which supports versioning, could potentially provide the same functionality as the Document Management Systems we mentioned earlier.
NITLE is currently running a DSpace pilot: http://b2e.nitle.org/index.php/2006/11/04/nitle_dspace_pilot_service_launched
However, the current releases of DSpace do not support versioning. DSpace 1.4 was released in December 2006. I have come across postings that claim versioning will be available in DSpace 2.0.
FEDORA is an open source DAS that does support versioning.
FEDORA: http://www.fedora.info/
The LMS Group is looking at Sakai as one of the possibilities to replace WebCT. Sakai is a community-source project, originally intended as a replacement for Lotus Notes though now being used extensively as a learning management system.
If Sakai is chosen as our new LMS - an even if it isn't - I think it's worth a close look as a possible collaboration tool. It also has some communication functions we should look at.
This video gives a good overview of the Sakai Project.
We met on January 12, 2007.
Present: Matt Engel, Mike Richwalsky, Jason Ramsey, Susan Fenton
We reviewed material from the blog and talked about Sharepoint. There was interest in seeing an demo and we agreed to ask Phil to arrange this. We also discussed getting demos of Zoho and the newest Meeting Maker running.
Mike talked about the Mozilla suite, including the new Eudora/Thunderbird blend. They have a calendar but it's not robust (Sunbird) and another more robust calendar (Lightening). We discussed the current calendars on campus, Meeting Maker and WebCalendar.
Matt asked about portals/single sign-ons.
It was agreed the group's official name - for now - would be No Name Group.