This document summarizes an Equella briefing that covered community news and activities, sustaining engineering efforts, a community spotlight, a demonstration of the upcoming 6.6 release, and upcoming events. The briefing discussed the nearing completion of Equella 6.6 with a focus on community testing. It highlighted sustaining engineering priorities from subscribers and showed screenshots from the new 6.6 release. The briefing also promoted the upcoming Open Apereo conference in June.

1. Open Source Support
Equella Briefing
April 26, 2018

2. Agenda
• Community News and Activities
• Sustaining Engineering
• Community Spotlight - NCCCS
• 6.6 Demo
• Events
• Open Forum/Q&A

3. Unicon Presenters
Benito Gonzalez
@bjagg
@bjagg69
Chris Beach
@cbeach47
@abeachboy47

4. Community - Equella 6.6
• Equella 6.6 is nearing
completion
• Community testing is key
to the success of releases
• Full list of Github issues
included in 6.6 milestone
Roadmap:
• Responsive design
• Sunset the Admin
Console

5. Community - Building Equella
• Need GIT, SBT, Java, plus builders for the
frontend including Yarn, Purescript, Bower
• Secure a Java signing certificate (optional, but
recommended)
• Choose optional components
• Libraries are pulled down via SBT
• Build via: sbt compile installerZip

6. Community - Apereo
• Formal Incubation process with Apereo continues
• Focusing on formal Governance process
• Targeting to be out of incubation by Open Apereo

7. Sustaining Engineering
• Each Unicon subscriber increases Unicon’s Sustaining
Engineering (SE) ability
• Unicon subscribers help prioritize SE efforts
• Open an S5 ZenDesk ticket
• Unicon will review, open a Github issue, and prioritize
request
• Anyone can add issues into the Github tracker!

8. Sustaining Engineering
• Issues
– #287 - Expose "EXISTS" operator in Manage
Resources queries
– #436 - Create REST endpoint for Reports
• We want to hear from our Open Source Support and
App Support clients on issues that are important to
them!
• OSS Subscribers have identified bugs and are driving
future SE priority

9. Community Spotlight
Jon Sweetin

10. 6.6 Demo
1st Round of
Enhanced UI
REST APIs
Bug Fixes

11. 6.6 Demo - Screenshots

12. 6.6 Demo - Screenshots

13. 6.6 Demo - Screenshots

14. 6.6 Demo - Screenshots

15. 6.6 Demo - Screenshots

16. 6.6 Demo - Screenshots

17. 6.6 Demo - Screenshots

18. 6.6 Demo - Screenshots

20. Open Apereo 2018
• June 3rd - 7th
• Delta Marriott Hotel in Montreal, Quebec
• Early bird registration ends May 1st!
• Full program available now!
https://www.apereo.org/conferences/open-apereo-2018

21. Open Apereo 2018 Presentations
• EQUELLA 101 Workshop
• EQUELLA and uPortal integration
• EQUELLA Customizations
• Implementing EQUELLA Content Management
at BYU Idaho
• And many more conference presentations and
pre-conference workshops to explore!

22. Communication
• Apereo Equella website: https://www.apereo.org/projects/equella
• Apereo Google Groups:
– equella-dev : equella-dev+subscriber@apereo.org
– equella-users : equella-users+subscriber@apereo.org
• Apereo # equella Slack Channel: apereo.slack.com
• GitHub issues: https://github.com/equella/Equella
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/EQUELLA

23. Next Steps
• Recorded session and blog post will be available soon on the
Unicon site
– https://unicon.net/support
– https://www.youtube.com/user/UNICONnet
• Consider testing your critical flows against 6.6!
• Consider attending Open Apereo 2018!
• Contact us for more information on Unicon’s Equella offerings
• Be active in the communication channels!

24. Questions/ Discussions
Contact
Chris Beach
cbeach@unicon.net
Benito Gonzalez
bgonzalez@unicon.net
Q? A.