[Using Sakai] [Building Sakai] Announcing Dashboard 1.0.0

[Nate Angell]

Very cool!

This seems like the same set of activities that one might want to see
in a mobile environment. Has the Dashboard team given any thought to
offering a web service or API to the same dashboard "events" as a
stream? I imagine the same information could be gathered together via
existing web services, etc, but maybe it would make things simpler for
a mobile app to just reflect the same thing as the dashboard.

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Nate Angell
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On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Chris Kretler <ckretler at umich.edu> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> We are happy to announce the 1.0.0 release of the Sakai Dashboard.  The
> Dashboard is a Contrib tool that provides a user-centric synoptic view
> of "Assignments and Events" -- showing upcoming Assignments and Calendar
> Events -- and "Recent Activity" -- showing updates about  Resources,
> Drop Box files, Assignments and Announcements.  The Dashboard provides
> the end user a concise landing spot with links to their most pertinent
> content.  It also gives the user the ability to customize the interface
> by starring important items and hiding less critical ones.
>
> An overview video can be found here: http://vimeo.com/39203463
>
> The 1.0.0 tag of the Dashboard shows activity related to resources,
> assignments, announcements and calendar events.  With a modest
> development effort, activity related to other types of Sakai entities
> could be shown in the Dashboard.  We will provide up-to-date information
> about that process in confluence.
>
> The Dashboard has been through several rounds of functional testing.
> Most known issues have been fixed.  There has been no attempt at load
> testing and we would welcome any input from a group with the resources
> to perform load testing.
>
> The 1.0.0 tag can be downloaded from subversion at this URL:
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/dashboard/tags/1.0.0/
>
> The 1.0.0 version of the Dashboard will build and deploy with an
> unpatched version of sakai trunk or with a patched version of sakai
> 2.9.x.  Revisions are needed in sakai core and kernel to build with
> 2.9.x.  Information about patching the 2.9.x branch of sakai or any tag
> made from that branch can be found in this confluence page:
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/zYHSB
>
> Details of the Dashboard project are described in this confluence page:
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/zIWCB
>
> Bugs and other issues related to the Dashboard are tracked in this JIRA
> project: https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH
>
> Unresolved issues related to the Dashboard can be found here:
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/xYHSB
>
> We plan to release a 1.0.1 tag of the Dashboard very soon.  We expect to
> include fixes for some or all of the following tickets in the 1.0.1 tag:
>
>    https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-216 - Need to expire and
> purge dashboard items
>    https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-225 - "View in Site" link
> for announcements does not open in site
>    https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-228 - Dropbox items shown
> too widely with confusing info
>    https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-220 - Hidden announcements
> shown in dashboard under some circumstances
>    https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-227 - Entity creator does
> not see some items in dashboard if entity access is restricted by group
> and creator is not in group
>
> Additional work has been outlined for inclusion in a 1.1 version of the
> Dashboard, but the scope of that work remains undecided and no timetable
> has been set.
>
> We invite contributions of effort to complete further versions of the
> Dashboard, including the 1.0.2 release (if needed) and the 1.1 version.
>
> - The Dashboard Project Team
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