uPortal is a free, sharable portal under development by institutions of higher-education. This group sees an institutional portal as an abridged and customized version of the institutional Web presence... a "pocket-sized" version of the campus Web. Portal technology adds "customization" and "community" to the campus Web presence. Customization allows each user to define a unique and personal view of the campus Web. Community tools, such as chat, forums, survey, and so on, build relationships among campus constituencies.

uPortal is an open-standard effort using Java, XML, JSP and J2EE. It is a collaborative development project with the effort shared among several of the JA-SIG member institutions. You may download uPortal and use it on your site at no cost.

• uPortal 2.3.4 now available.
  
• uPortal Developers Meeting to be held August 30-31, 2004 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology [More info]
• uPortal Summer Conference
  Coming up June 20-22, 2004, Denver, Colorado
• "Combating Stovepipes: Implementing Workflow in uPortal"
  By Mark Askren and Marina Arseniev
• uPortal partners with Sakai, recipient of $2.5 million Mellon Grant
• uPortal in InfoWorld Top 5
  uPortal is No. 4 in InfoWorld magazine's Top 100 IT Projects of 2003 (PDF).
  
  
• uPortal 3.0 is now in progress! uPortal roadmap summarizes support for JSR-168 Portlets
  
• uPortal Training -- upcoming classes from Unicon:
  

  Fundamentals	Datatel California Office, San Francisco, CA	August 17-19, 2004	Details

• uPortal CVS Monitor is now available for viewing activity on the uPortal source code repository.

Several commercial partners provide a variety of services to the uPortal community... including training, implementation, customization and support.