The new-portal you'll find in dotlrn works ... the partially rewritten newest-new-portal version is in the OpenACS 4 (HEAD not the 4.6 branch) as ... "portal"
Yes, we do this to confuse people, that's why, I'm sure it is :)
Anyway you can play around with the dotLRN new-portal package to see how it works in the dotLRN environment, and can play with the OpenACS 4 HEAD portal package to see how broken the partially rewritten/refactored "newest new-portal" package is ...
I'll be at the coffee shop by about 2:30 if you're not doing anything ... about 43rd and Hawthorne on the North side of the street. If hippie Steve shows up you can play with his cell phone that gives his laptop unlimited net access for $10/month on top of his normal call plan ...
