Profile2 is the social networking tool for the Sakai CLE. It gives you a rich interface for managing your profile and a comprehensive set of privacy controls. You can post status updates, find people with common interests, view their profile and add them as connections. We'll explore these features and take a look at the new features, including a Kudos rating system, Photo Galleries, Private Messaging and the supporting work for the new Sakai Chat. You will also have an opportunity to ask questions about deployment and configuration so as to best tailor Profile2 to your institution.

1. Profile2 ‐ Social Networking for the
Sakai CLE
Steve Swinsburg, So>ware Engineer, ANU

2. What is Profile2
Where we are at
Key features
Demo
New stuff
OVERVIEW
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3. What is Profile2?
• Complete rewrite of Profile
• Same basic backend, extended
• Social networking features
• post status updates (TwiWer)
• find people, view their profiles
• add them as connecYons
• send direct messages, share pictures
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4. What is Profile2?
• Rich set of privacy se[ngs
• Per user se[ngs
• Allow info to everyone,
connecYons, or just me
• Defaults can be configured and
opYonally locked in
sakai.properYes
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5. What is Profile2?
• Rich set of preferences
• control when you get email
noYficaYons
• link your TwiWer account (OAuth)
• official images
• widgets: kudos, twiWer feed
• defaults configurable via
sakai.properYes
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6. Roster integraYon
• AcYvate via sakai.properYes
• Roster will pull profile info and images from
Profile2
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7. WHERE WE ARE AT
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8. Releases
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Since January 2009
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9. JIRA
302 and counYng...
Fixes and features for 1.4 release
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10. Which version?
• 1.3.15 current stable for Sakai 2.7
• 1.4.0 current stable for Sakai 2.8
2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9
1.3.x
1.4.x
1.5.x
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11. Code
• Backend completely refactored
• MulYple APIs you can use
• ProfileLogic
• ConnecYonsLogic
• PreferencesLogic...
• EnYtyProviders
• RESTful interfaces to Profile2 data
• Same security/privacy
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12. ConfiguraYon
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sakai.properYes, all opYonal
h*p://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/PROFILE/Profile2
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13. AWESOME NEW STUFF
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14. External user search
• ExternalUserSearchUDP interface in Kernel
can search external systems
• searchExternalUsers(criteria...)
• Implemented in 2.8 LDAP provider
• tools/services (eg Profile2) can ask a provider
to search for a user
• could search other insYtuYons...
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15. InsYtuYonal images
• Can enable and force insYtuYonal image
• MulYple sources
• LDAP, external URL, Sakai DB
• Users can opYonally upload a different one
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16. Improved noYficaYons
• Get noYfied instantly when a new
connecYon request or direct message
comes through
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17. Private messaging
• User can send messages to their
connecYons
• Threaded discussion
• Supports mulYple parYcipants
• Planned: IntegraYon with neo portal chat,
so you get an instant noYficaYon
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18. Kudos
• Calculates your score based on use and
parYcipaYon
• Do more stuff, get more points
• Nightly quartz job ‐ acYvate it!
• Admin Workspace > Job Scheduler
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19. Gallery
• Upload and share pictures
• Set pictures as profile image
• Planned: to browse and manage
uploaded profile images, reordering,
general gallery management (Ytles,
profile images in a gallery, etc)
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20. News Feed / Wall
• New for 1.5
• Events get published to your wall
• And you can comment on it
• Can write on other people’s walls
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21. Gravatars
• New for 1.5
• Got gravatar? It’s all done automaYcally via
your email address!
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22. Online status
• New for 1.5
• Can control via preferences and privacy
se[ngs
• Go online or offline from new chat
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23. Data feeds for Neo Chat
• EnYty provider provide list of connecYons
and their online status
• PotenYal to integrate into chat client in
external applicaYon, eg uPortal
• Neo chat could be ported
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24. Worksite creaYon
• Create worksites from connecYons
• Got a group of people?
• Spin off a site and collaborate!
• Experimental for 1.5
• User opt‐in/out
• NoYficaYon preferences
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25. DEMO
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26. NEWER AWESOME STUFF!
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27. Badges
• Mozilla ‘badge backpack’ iniYaYve
• Get achievements for doing stuff
• I got my first ‘A’, 10 connecYons, 100 wiki edits
• SYll very much in concept phase
• CondiYonal release, event observers,
quartz jobs ‐ details to be determined
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28. Mutual connecYons
• View another users profile and see how
you are connected to them
• Configurable via privacy, as always
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29. Tagging connecYons
• Able to assign arbitrary tags/groups to
connecYons
• Will be able to sort and search by tags
• Taggable interface to tag any item in Sakai
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30. Simplified search
• One search box to search them all
• Currently split by name/email and interests
• Filtered search, more flexible
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31. UI improvements
• UMich performed an evaluaYon of Profile2
as part of the Neo Portal work
• Edit was difficult to figure out
• Address those concerns
• Work with funcYonal and UI developers
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32. Video management
• Just like the gallery, add video upload and
management capabiliYes
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33. Configurable fields
• An insYtuYon will be able to set what fields
are shown, and their order
• Backend rewrite from Hibernate > Spring
JDBC
• In hindsight shouldn’t have been so nice in
reusing the exisYng impl
• DB conversion at upgrade Yme
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34. Public data
• Can set some data as public
• Will allow embedding of profiles on
external web pages
• Completely opt‐in / configurable
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35. Export profiles
• Standard compliant export
• Click on a user, get the info they have
allowed. Ties in with the public view of
data
• VCard export
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36. Forums integraYon
• See the profile image in the Forums
• Will use the enYty provider, which is
privacy controlled.
• May need a new privacy se[ng for images
so that users in worksites can see the
image
• Privacy controlled
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37. External IntegraYons
• Pull in your profile from Facebook or
LinkedIn
• Reduce profile faYgue
• OpYonally send stuff to external sources
• Status updates
• Already have TwiWer, add in Facebook /
LinkedIn
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38. QUESTIONS
hWps://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/PROFILE/Profile2
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