I ran into a old friend in Best Buy last week and he told me to look at this article – it took me a while to find it – so here it is – it was in Time Magazine February 26, 2007 – Page 51.
Here is a quote:
Clever entrepreneurs and even established companies can profit from this volunteerism–but only if they don’t get too greedy. The key, Benkler says, is “managing the marriage of money and nonmoney without making nonmoney feel like a sucker.”
Here is a URL:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1590440-2,00.html

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Fixed my last Blocker level issue and improved my JSR-168 test portlet.
Add support for a real preferences store for JSR-168 portlets. The store is in
the Tool Placement, properties are prefixed with javax.portlet: and are URLEncoded.
Sometimes JSR-168 preferences are arrays – these are represented in Sakai
preferences as strings concatenated together with “!” – since the individual
bits are URLEncoded – there will be no “!” characters in the strings.
charles-severances-computer:~/dev/sakai/portal csev$ svn commit
Sending portal-render-impl/impl/src/java/org/sakaiproject/portal/render/portlet/services/SakaiOptionalPortletContainerServices.java
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 22128.
charles-severances-computer:~/
The rest of this is just my current notes on 168 progress.

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Instructions are really simple now:
svn co https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn//sakai/trunk/ sakai
cd sakai
svn co https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn//portlet/trunk/ portlet
maven bld dpl
Start tomcat. The portlets will simply show up as tools – you may want this in your sakai.properties:
webservices.allowlogin=true
webservice.portalsecret=plug-xyzzy
webservice.portalIP=127.0.0.1
webservice.IPCheck=true

I made some progress here is the status for JSR-168. Pretty much all the big stuff is done (Broken reset was the last “blocker”). Here is status:
TODO:
Why to we register too many times?
Why do we doView more than once?
reference/docs/architecture – Update
JSR-168 Preferences – permanently persist in Tool Placement
Re-enable userInfo capabilities once Pluto 1.1.1 is released of we put it into the Sakai repo.
Nice to have
JSR-168 Edit Mode
JSR-168 Help Mode
DONE
PDA – Rename – Done 22111
Test Portlet – Done
Test CSS – Done
Reset – Fixed
PDA Presence – Fixed
My cool SVN statement – merged a branch all by myself!
svn merge -r 21991:HEAD https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn//portal/branches/experimental_portal_branch/
The rest of this is just notes form my desktop.

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