Morten Brekkevold
2011-11-15 09:33:43 UTC
Hello all,
I just wanted to say a few words about the NAV reference committee,
which was established just last week.
Those of you who aren't one of UNINETT's NREN customers in Norway may or
may not be aware that NAV is one of the many free software offerings to
our customers. We even operate remote NAV servers as a service for ~30
of our smaller customers.
We try to concentrate our development efforts to meet the demands of our
customers in higher education (HE), and since this is a free software
project we also cooperate with some of our HE customers, who regularly
contribute to and maintain parts of NAV (some by their own volition,
others commissioned and paid by us).
It is not always clear what the customer wants. Some of our customers
are very vocal about what they want, others keep quiet, maybe spilling
their guts in the occasional face to face meeting (or maybe not even
then).
So we've revived a several years old idea to establish a kind of
committee of reference for NAV development. This committee consists of
representatives from our HE customers, and would be responsible for
collecting, massaging, filtering and prioritizing wishes for further NAV
development from the HE community.
This committee was established on Thursday 10th November here in
Trondheim, and consists of the following representatives:
* Vidar Faltinsen, UNINETT (committee leader/secretary)
* Morten Brekkevold, UNINETT (lead NAV developer)
* Gro-Anita Vindheim, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
* BÞrge Brunes, University of TromsÞ
* Jan Sigurd Refvik, University of Oslo
* Rune Kittelsen, University of Agder
* Peder Sefland, Volda University College
The committee will publish its work on the web at [1], were you can
already find the minutes from the inaugural meeting.
As we're the Norwegian NREN, the committee's working language will be
Norwegian - if you don't speak Norwegian, you may want to try using
Google Translate or similar services to translate those pages if you
want to see the details of what's going on (although automatic
translation may confuse more than it helps ;-) ).
Nevertheless, the results of the committee's input will be visible in
how we prioritize bug reports and blueprints on our Launchpad project
page [2].
Have a great day!
[1] https://ow.feide.no/gigacampus:nav-ref
[2] https://launchpad.net/nav
I just wanted to say a few words about the NAV reference committee,
which was established just last week.
Those of you who aren't one of UNINETT's NREN customers in Norway may or
may not be aware that NAV is one of the many free software offerings to
our customers. We even operate remote NAV servers as a service for ~30
of our smaller customers.
We try to concentrate our development efforts to meet the demands of our
customers in higher education (HE), and since this is a free software
project we also cooperate with some of our HE customers, who regularly
contribute to and maintain parts of NAV (some by their own volition,
others commissioned and paid by us).
It is not always clear what the customer wants. Some of our customers
are very vocal about what they want, others keep quiet, maybe spilling
their guts in the occasional face to face meeting (or maybe not even
then).
So we've revived a several years old idea to establish a kind of
committee of reference for NAV development. This committee consists of
representatives from our HE customers, and would be responsible for
collecting, massaging, filtering and prioritizing wishes for further NAV
development from the HE community.
This committee was established on Thursday 10th November here in
Trondheim, and consists of the following representatives:
* Vidar Faltinsen, UNINETT (committee leader/secretary)
* Morten Brekkevold, UNINETT (lead NAV developer)
* Gro-Anita Vindheim, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
* BÞrge Brunes, University of TromsÞ
* Jan Sigurd Refvik, University of Oslo
* Rune Kittelsen, University of Agder
* Peder Sefland, Volda University College
The committee will publish its work on the web at [1], were you can
already find the minutes from the inaugural meeting.
As we're the Norwegian NREN, the committee's working language will be
Norwegian - if you don't speak Norwegian, you may want to try using
Google Translate or similar services to translate those pages if you
want to see the details of what's going on (although automatic
translation may confuse more than it helps ;-) ).
Nevertheless, the results of the committee's input will be visible in
how we prioritize bug reports and blueprints on our Launchpad project
page [2].
Have a great day!
[1] https://ow.feide.no/gigacampus:nav-ref
[2] https://launchpad.net/nav
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Morten Brekkevold
UNINETT
Morten Brekkevold
UNINETT