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Congratulations to Jasig on Launch of New Website

By Andrew Petro
February 13, 2009

Just a quick post to extend congratulations to Jasig on the launch of the new Jasig website. It's looking very good and the move into Drupal should make it more possible to maintain and extend the website in the days to come. Well done.

I understand Jim Helwig of the University of Wisconsin is to be particularly thanked for his hard work on making uPortal's presence in this new website much better than it would otherwise have been. (Jim also generously and ably chairs the uPortal Steering Committee.) Of course, thanks are also due to Chuck Crandall (previously a Unicon employee) and his Drupal consulting / full service website shop WebChuckWeb. I continue to be impressed with him and his work and to wish him the best of everything in his WebChuckWeb endeavor, though of course I miss working with him more directly here at Unicon.

Others are due thanks and recognition for this website effort as well -- congratulations to everyone on a job well done and the beginning of a more maintainable and effective website.

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Andrew Petro

After graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science from Yale University in 2004, Andrew stayed on to serve his alma mater as a casual systems programmer with the Technology & Planning group. His interests include automated software testing, application frameworks, and electronic security. Projects in which Andrew has been involved include the Central Authentication Service, YaleInfo Portal (Yale's uPortal implementation). and the JA-SIG uPortal project. Andrew serves as the release engineer for uPortal 2.6.x (previously for 2.5.x) and has been published in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery on the topic of electronic voting. In fall 2005, Andrew relocated to Wisconsin and continued to work for Yale on a contract basis while starting part time with Unicon and in spring 2006 Andrew joined Unicon full time, serving roles since then including technical lead on Academus and on Cooperative Support for uPortal.