Uva Software is moving on.

Uva Software is moving on and retiring the Uva Core project. As any good open source project, Uva Core will live on but, from now on, it will be hosted on Google Code:

http://code.google.com/p/uva-core/

We hope this will mark a new level of community involvement and continued development of Uva Core.

 

- Rafael 

K12 Open Minds presentation files

My K12 Open Minds presentation went without (too many) issues. Congratulations to everyone involved with making this conference happen! 

As promised, from the link below you can download both the sample agent we developed and the presentation slides. 

http://static.uvasoftware.com/misc/

- raf

K12 Open Minds talk

I'll be giving a talk titled "Open source SIF, from zero to agent in 45 minutes or less" at the Open Minds Conference to be held Sept 25-27 at the Indianapolis Downtown Marriott. I'm really excited about this since I think it will be a great chance to display Uva Core and how far it has come in the last few months.

I hope to see everyone there and drop me a line if you would like to get a beer or something (rafATuvasoftware.com)

Cheers,

- raf

Uva has friends (with benefits, no less!)

After a lonesome childhood during which we concentrated entirely on the development of our SDK, Uva Software has emerged into adolescence with two new partners in the open source community.

First up is Billboard.net. These are the guys behind Zone Integration Terminal, a newly-developed ZIS that will soon be released into the wild under both open source and commercial licenses. A fully-functional, open source ZIS is something the educational market has needed for quite some time now, and we welcome them to the SIF community with open arms. We have been working extensively with them over the last few months to ensure that agents created using Uva Core are fully compatible with Billboard.net's product, and plan to test future builds (starting with the almost-here 0.3 release) against it before release.

Next we have Open Solutions for Education (OS4Ed), creators of an open source Student Information System called openSIS. openSIS is currently in use by a number of independent schools down in Florida and is starting to get some attention from some larger districts. We are currently developing an agent for openSIS which we hope to have ready for live demos at education technology conferences in September. With this agent, openSIS will become the first open source SIS that is SIF-compliant, allowing them to expand their market into states getting into are already heavily employing SIF.

What other open source software would you like to see made SIF-capable? Drop us a line at info@uvasoftware.com.

-Mike

Uva's office now bigger than ever

As many of you know, Uva operates as a virtual office. Though we started out spread across Phoenix, we have since grown this virtual office to span most of the US. The latest developments leading to this Risk-esque expansion have been the addition of a new Uva member and the relocation of an existing one.

Our new recruit is Los Angeles inhabitant Steven Kim, whose background is an intriguing mix of sales, management consulting, investment banking, and tech. On the front lines, Steven will serve as master of pie charts and be our secret weapon against PHBs. Behind the scenes, he'll make sure we maintain a viable business model that balances our love for developing open source software with our desire to remain a self-sustaining company. We welcome Steven and hope to make introductions at the upcoming conferences.

The relocatee is me, Michael Babineau. I have gone eastward to Cincinnati in support of my wife; while I have great flexibility in choosing where I'd like to work, she, a classical musician, does not. Though the move was easy (I grew up in a military household, so moving is as normal to me as spring cleaning to most, and, in fact, often serves the same purpose), re-acclimation to the midwestern humidity and insect population is a bit of a shock to my system.

-Mike

No, we're not dead

My sincerest apologies for two months of quietude. Things have been especially busy here at the Uva lair - our plans for [SIF] world domination are nearing completion. I have a lot of news to share, most of which I'll try to get out over the next week or two. Stay tuned!

-Mike

Spammers suck

Just giving a heads up that we've installed a new spam filter on the site, if you run into any problems creating a ticket, drop us a line in the mailing list http://groups.google.com/group/uva-core

Cheers!

- raf