Skip to main content

As a staff member, what technical groups should I consider joining on campus?

Here is some information about some technical groups staff members at UCLA might want to attend, join, or at least monitor.

  • Campus Web Publishers – http://cwp.ucla.edu
    The UCLA Campus Web Publishers (CWP) is a forum for people publishing websites on campus where people can come to learn/share/explore new and existing technologies and ideas. Members have technical backgrounds, others come from the publications side and many are jacks-of-all-trades. Meetings are held every few months where presentations and discussions are given from Design Fundamentals to Content Management Systems and everything in between.

CWP is also a great place to share projects that you’ve been working on. Past project presentations have included the UCLA KnowledgeBase and BruinCast.

Meets irregularly to give demos and talk about web technology and issues. Listserv signup – http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cwp-l.

  • sign up for listserv
  • check out website
  • send interesting questions to listserv
  • suggest topics for meetings
  • CCLE – Common Collaborative and Learning Environment Technical Community
    UCLA is starting to work toward a common, opt-in platform for both course websites and collaborative websites. The CCLE Technical Community consists of those interested in working together to build and test this vision.
  • Course Management Consortium – Being replaced by CCLE. But the site is still useful for documentation of shared datasources among other things. http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classweb/consortium/
    • check out website and meeting notes on blog
  • Instructional Technology Forum – This is a group for those who support
    course management systems and other instructional technology applications
    here at UCLA. This is less about the programming and more about policies,
    user support techniques, faculty outreach, training, common problems, and
    interesting solutions. It should be forum for talking about instructional
    technology at UCLA. http://itf.ucla.edu/ (part public, part private, email franks@ssc.ucla.edu for password)
    • sign up for listserv
    • check out website (not a lot there)
    • look for what you might want to add to wiki
    • attend or host Brown Bags on topics that interest you
    • suggest something you might want to demo
  • UCLA Java User Group – Java technology is widely deployed at UCLA. The UCLA Java User Group brings together the campus Java community to share experiences and promote best practices for the effective use of Java technology. It does so through meetings, presentations by experts from on and off campus, open-environment “code on the lawn” sessions and more. Faculty, students and staff are all welcome and encouraged to actively participate. Whatever the venue, members can expect their technical boundaries to be pushed and their knowledge of the Java language expanded, and to be challenged to create and innovate.
  • UCLA Programmers Exchange – We are looking for a quick and easy way to
    spur coordination and sharing among UCLA programmers. So far we’ve had two
    parties, built a public/private (UCLA IP-only) website with wiki for
    programmers on campus to share their notes, set up a campus CVS and a
    self-registration Programmers Directory. We would like to sponsor meetings
    or focus groups on different topics. http://programmers.ucla.edu/
    • sign up for listserv
    • check out website
    • add notes to wiki, feel free to create whole new sections on things that interest you
    • add yourself and your interests to Programmers Directory
    • send interesting questions to listserv
    • suggest topics for focus groups
  • Plone Users Group is a development and community support group for those using the Plone Content Management System. http://plone.oid.ucla.edu/
    • add yourself to listserv


      I know there are others, so please add groups that haven’t been mentioned.

Back to top