November 2008
In order to support a growing number of partnerships between SAPO and Portuguese Universities, which resulted in the wide deployment of several lab.sapo Platforms, there was a need to develop a central platform that would aggregate all the content produced on the different platforms.
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September 2008 – October 2008
The recently established labs.sapo/ua is Portuguese Internet Giant SAPO‘s latest attempt at gaining a foothold in the Higher Education space. The lab is a physical space in the Universidade de Aveiro campus where SAPO supports the development of innovative projects in the Web and Technology fields in tight collaboration with the University itself. In order to promote the initiative building a solid Web presence was top priority. The platform to be developed needed to promote communication with the outside world and shine a light on the various ongoing projects at the lab. With this in mind, me and the rest of the team decided to develop a platform based on WordPress MU that would support an indefinite number of personal and project blogs. This platform would need to be flexible enough to be deployed nearly as-is in a number of situations, such as other Universities or other SAPO sponsored events (as is the case of labs.sapo/codebits and labs.sapo/summerbits).
Yup, labs.sapo.pt/ua finally launched! After a few weeks of hard work, this community driven website is ready for public scrutiny.
It essentially serves as a showcase of most recent work and projects developed at the SAPO laboratory at the University of Aveiro, and believe me, there are already a lot of interesting projects springing up! I myself am involved with the soon to be SAPO Campus, but I promise a more in-depth post about that later.
I was one of the web developers deeply involved in the making of this site, so you can also expect a full-on portfolio post one of these days.
Everyone can comment on the various blogs, but only directly involved people can have a blog and post stuff. We hope that we were able do deliver a well-adjusted product and hope to see it thoroughly used for the next months!
