[Announcements] Sakai Newsletter March 19, 2009
Margaret Wagner
mwagner at umich.edu
Sat Mar 21 15:37:40 PDT 2009
Sakai Newsletter
March 19, 2009
1. From the Executive Director
2. Registration is Open for the 10th Sakai Conference
3. Invitation to Participate in the Teaching and Learning Pre-
Conference Workshop!
4. Google Summer of Code
5. 2009 Assessment Institute in Indianapolis
6. Farewell for Now
7. Summary of Library and Sakai 3 Integration Discussion
8. Job Opening: Johns Hopkins Distance Education Manager
10. Sakai Activities Organized into Four Categories
11. Recent Email Group Discussions
12. Events
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1. From the Executive Director
The Sakai Foundation and board of directors would like your feedback
and input on a proposed new development process for the Sakai
community. As you may know, the Sakai Board of Directors recently
conducted a 2-day retreat focusing on the strategic direction for the
Sakai Foundation, especially with regard to how it should use its
resources to support the Sakai community development process. Over the
last few weeks, we have been working on recommendations for changing
the development process.
The white paper at the end of this newsletter documents these
recommendations. The Sakai Foundation will be working to enact this
process and we are eager for your feedback and suggestions for
improving the general framework we've outlined. So please feel free to
send your feedback to the lists or directly to me.
I will be presenting the new proposed development model for Sakai in a
webinar next Wednesday, March 25th at 12:00 Eastern Daylight Time (GMT
-4). You can sign up at:
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/gQAgAw
Or send me an email and let me know you'd like to attend. Depending on
interest I will hold additional sessions the following week. If there
is a large group from a single institution that is interested, you can
also feel free to schedule a specific time directly with me.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Michael Korcuska
Executive Director, Sakai Foundation
mkorcuska at sakaifoundation.org
phone: +1 510-931-6559
mobile (US): +1 510-599-2586 mobile (FR): +33 (0)6 31 11 58 97
skype: mkorcuska
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2. Registration is Open for the 10th Sakai Conference
Registration is open for the 10th Sakai Conference to be held July
8-10, 2009 at the Hyatt Cambridge, Cambridge, MA. Follow this link -https://educonference.com/sakai/boston/index.php
= to register for the conference, submit a proposal, and make your
hotel reservation. The cut-off for proposal submission is April 10.
If you plan to submit a proposal, but will require more time, please
let me know.
Vijay Kumar, author of Opening Up Education, will be our keynote
speaker, and we continue to work to find other featured speakers to
make our conference more interesting and informative.
This year, the Sakai Foundation will be charging a fee to all
attendees to help defray the cost of food. If you register prior to
June 5, the charge will be $195 for members and $495 for non-members.
After June 5, the charges will increase by $50 in each category. Our
cancellation policy is also shown on the conference registration
page. If you are sending 5 or more people from your institution, you
may qualify for a discount of $25 per person (if registered by June
5). To obtain more information on this option, please contact me
directly.
We are still accepting logo submissions! If you have an idea for a
logo, please send it to me.
The deadlines to keep in mind are as follows:
April 10, 2009 -- Deadline for submitting proposals
June 5, 2009 -- Deadline for earlybird (discounted) registration for
the conference
June 5, 2009 -- Deadline for hotel reservations at the Sakai rate
We look forward to seeing you at the conference in July. As always,
if you have any questions, please contact me directly.
Mary Miles
Sakai Foundation Administrative Coordinator
mmiles at umich.edu
734-764-3614
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3. Invitation to Participate in the Teaching and Learning Pre-
Conference Workshop!
At the 10th Sakai Conference, this July in Boston, the teaching and
learning group would like to hold a pre-conference session on the
teaching and learning aspects of Sakai (similar to the session of a
year ago in Paris). Entitled "Five Minutes of Fame, Five Minutes of
Shame, Five Minutes to Frame," this gathering would present brief
contributions to foster interest and interchange. Participants are
invited to share lessons learned (FAME being positive lessons and
"SHAME" being things to avoid doing) as well as to promote (or FRAME)
sessions that will be run later on in the conference. The concept is
still a work in progress so if you have other ideas or want to present
using other formats let us know.
You are invited to present any one or two or all three of the five-
minute segments. Please add yourself to the list of participants on
the Preconference 2009 page: http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/PED/Preconference+2009+Teaching+and+Learning
Josh Baron
Josh.Baron at marist.edu
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4. Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers student
developers stipends to write code for various open source software
projects over a three-month period. Through Google Summer of Code,
accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from
the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world
software development scenarios, growing the open source communities
involved, and getting more code contributed to projects. This year's
programme is described here: http://code.google.com/soc/
Chuck Severance ran the Sakai Foundation's engagement with Google
Summer of Code, and Laura James at the University of Cambridge will be
doing this in 2009. Five projects are currently suggested -- mostly
contributions towards new UI features for Sakai3 -- although students
can also suggest their own ideas. This will help Sakai engage with
potential new community members, help students get valuable work
experience, and also accelerate development of new code. Read more
here: http://socghop.appspot.com/org/show/google/gsoc2009/sakai
Contact Laura James at laura at caret.cam.ac.uk if you would like to be
involved mentoring students and/or have additional project ideas.
Please bear in mind that the Summer of Code timelines are quite tight (http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/timeline
).
If students at your institution might be interested in developing
Sakai as part of the Summer of Code, do publicise the programme
(there's helpful material available at http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/faqs#spread_word)
Thank you.
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5. 2009 Assessment Institute in Indianapolis
Dear Sakai/OSP Colleagues,
I'd like to invite your proposals for sessions at the annual
Assessment Institute in Indianapolis, the largest (and best!) national
gathering on assessment, to be held October 25-27, 2009. The
conference includes an ePortfolio track, which I'll be organizing, and
I'd love to receive proposals highlighting the good work being done by
members of the Sakai and OSP communities. According to last year's
conference evaluation, almost half of the participants came in part
because of interest in the ePortfolio track, which will be keynoted by
Helen Barrett this year. Your proposals for the ePortfolio track
don't need to be limited to assessment uses of ePortfolios, but can
address any aspect of portfolios you're interested in. You can find
the institute website and online proposal submission form here: http://www.planning.iupui.edu/institute
. Please feel free to give me a call if you'd like to discuss a
possible session. I hope to hear from many of you!
All the best,
Susan Kahn, Ph.D.
IUPUI ePortfolio
skahn at iupui.edu
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6. Farewell for Now
Folks,
I am sad to tell you all that I will be leaving rSmart. I have had a
great time over the past five years getting to work with everyone here.
As many of you may know, I have been dabbling in iPhone application
development over the past year. I have decided to stop dabbling and
start focusing more time there. Working with Sakai and the community
has been great fun, but I think it is time for me to focus on a much
smaller platform. ;)
I've made some great friends among you. I'm also sure we'll be
staying in touch through Facebook (search john at dovevalleyapps.com),
Twitter (@johnellis) and email. My new email address is john at dovevalleyapps.com
. Please feel free to hit me there at any time. Also, if we're not
already friends on Facebook and Twitter, please get me there.
John Bush at rSmart will be helping to transition my Sakai community
responsibilities. Any questions on those areas should be directed to
him.
Thanks again to everyone,
John Ellis
john.ellis at rsmart.com
john at dovevalleyapps.com
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7. Summary of Library and Sakai 3 Integration Discussion
Thank you to all who participated in the discussion of library
integration with Sakai 3 on March 17. We had excellent input from
people at a wide range of institutions.
Participants shared their own work on integrating library resources
and services with local Sakai implementations, as well as reviewed the
Sakaibrary project. This was followed by an open-ended discussion of
desired library-related functionality in Sakai 3.
Several participants stated that users need to be able to capture
content wherever they are and move it into Sakai. We also discussed
effective ways to gather user input to inform the design process of
library functionality for Sakai 3. Suggestions included the OSP
roadmap model, user experience stories, and asking users what they've
been unable to accomplish with Sakai in the past. (Previously
collected usage scenarios are available at: http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/SLIB/Usage+Scenarios+Collected+2009)
We also discussed the best mechanisms for communication.
Suggestions included regularly-scheduled phone/video/Web conferences,
identifying the appropriate email list (possibly sakai-user), and
using library conferences (ALA, LITA, ACRL) as a meeting place. To
move this process forward, Jon and Susan will identify possible
communication mechanisms and user input methods to inform the design
process. We will share these with the community for discussion.
Thanks again to all who participated in the discussion and we'll be
back in touch soon.
Susan Hollar, University of Michigan (shollar at umich.edu)
Jon Dunn, Indiana University (jwd at indiana.edu)
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8. OpenEAI Project and Emory University Announce Training for OpenEAI
The OpenEAI Software Foundation (http://www.openeai.org/live/
index.php) has announced that Emory University (http://www.emory.edu/home/index.html
) and Emory Healthcare (Emory) will host OpenEAI training seminars in
March and April 2009. The OpenEAI Analysis & Development training
will be held March 23-25, 2009 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EDT and the
OpenEAI Deployment and Administration training will be held April
27-29, 2009 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EDT. Both training sessions will
take place in the Emory Healthcare Auditorium on the fourth floor of
the North Decatur Building at 1784 North Decatur Road, NE in Atlanta,
Georgia.
For complete details and to register for these training events, visit: https://www.regonline.com/openeai-development
orhttps://www.regonline.com/openeai-administration
The training is free of charge. A donation of $50 per person is
suggested to help cover printing costs for training materials.
Reservations for accommodations can be made by contacting the Emory (http://www.emoryconferencecenter.com/
) Conference Center Hotel or one of the other area hotels listed at: http://www.emory.edu/home/about/visiting/hotels.html
For a detailed description of the OpenEAI Analysis & Development
Training, please visit:http://www.invivoit.com/live/training/OpenEaiAnalysisAndDevelopment.pdf
For a detailed course description of the OpenEAI Deployment &
Administration Training, visit:http://www.invivoit.com/live/training/OpenEaiAdministration.pdf
About OpenEAI 4.0
OpenEAI 4.0 provides an open source architectural framework and
development platform that includes a comprehensive set of software
APIs, utilities, reference implementations, and other administrative
tools designed to enable mission critical data integration between
enterprise applications. The software is a set of foundational APIs
for application development and implementing service-oriented
architectures. It includes reference implementations of core
enterprise services that constitute an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
It also contains a comprehensive set of runtime management and
monitoring scripts, and documentation for managing deployed services
and application gateways or connectors. OpenEAI also provides complete
reference implementations of typical applications that use these core
integration services to request information from other applications
and synchronize data changes. Critical infrastructure applications
such as message routers, message proxies, point-to-point destination
polling applications, and testing applications are also maintained and
documented by the project. For more information:http://www.openeai.org/live/index.php?p=6&sub=1
Joe Waldygo
President, TopSpin Communications, Inc.
joe at topspinpr.com
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9. Job Opening: Johns Hopkins Distance Education Manager
Johns Hopkins University in Elkridge, Maryland has a position opening
for a Distance Education Manager, req: 38825. For more information
and to apply, please visit: https://hrnt.jhu.edu/jhujobs/job_search2.cfm
April M. Wille
awille at jhu.edu
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10. Sakai Activities Organized into Four Categories
In order to make it easier to find relevant information about Sakai,
particularly for new-comers, we are in the process of re-organizing
many of the ongoing Sakai activities into four broad categories:
General Information, Building Sakai, Deploying Sakai, and Using
Sakai. These categories are based on the Sakai Conference session
tracks, which have worked well in grouping related topics into
categories of broad interest and collaboration.
Below are general descriptions of these four groups. Soon you will
see this grouping reflected elsewhere as well.
General Information -- General information covers conferences and
meetings, partners program, commercial affiliates problem, demos, and
more. Topics in General Information are of interest to all members of
the Sakai Community.
Building Sakai (The sakai-dev email group.) -- This category is for
information and discussions relating to designing, developing, testing
and documenting. Sakai members can learn about the technical details
of building tools or integrating services; find guidelines for design
and development of tools and services; locate technical
specifications; learn about plans for future releases, and more.
Designers, programmers, developers, and quality assurance staff will
find relevant information in the Building Sakai category.
Deploying Sakai (sakai-prod) -- Deploying Sakai includes information
about installing, implementing, configuring, and supporting. Those
interested will find release documentation; learn about performance
tuning; browse suggested hardware and software configurations; and
share examples of training, tutorial and support documentation. The
Deploying Sakai category will be of special interest to sysadmins,
DBAs, and technical support staff. http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/Si4
Using Sakai (sakai-user) -- Using Sakai is about collaborating,
teaching and learning, and more. Users can learn about best
practices; share experiences; connect with user communities with
similar interests, K- 12, Higher-Ed, Portfolios and more. Using Sakai
provides important information for teachers, researchers,
instructional designers, and end-user support staff.http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/agCeAg
Peter Knoop
knoop at umich.edu
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11. Recent Email Group Discussions
[Building Sakai - Dev] Install SCORM into Sakai 2.5
http://n2.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--Install-SCORM-into-Sakai-2.5-tt2512782.html#a2512984
[Building Sakai - Dev] Test & quizzes - quick create
http://n2.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--Test---quizzes---quick-create-tt2512413.html#a2512413
[Building Sakai - Dev] 2.6+Oracle: sakai_event_delay table missing
http://n2.nabble.com/Re%3A--WG%3A-Sakai-QA---Building-Sakai--2.6%2BOracle%3A-sakai_event_delay-table-missing-tt2510682.html#a2510682
[Building Sakai - Dev] content and mailarchive "runconversion" scripts
for 2.6+
http://n2.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--content-and-mailarchive-%22runconversion%22-scripts-for-2.6%2B-tt2505095.html#a2510030
[Building Sakai - Dev] "Full-Window" Helpers
http://n2.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--%22Full-Window%22-Helpers-tt2504373.html#a2504373
[Building Sakai - Dev] 2.6.x Fixes to Merge - Unverified: Help request
- Update and Details
http://n2.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--2.6.x-Fixes-to-Merge---Unverified%3A-Help-request%3A-tt2506215.html#a2509951
[Building Sakai - Dev] IE 8
http://n2.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--IE-8-tt2504790.html#a2504790
[Using Sakai - Portfolio, User] Sakai 3-ish discussion
http://n2.nabble.com/-Portfolio--Sakai-3-ish-discussion-tt2486950.html#a2486950
[Using Sakai - Portfolio] Who uses freeform portfolios in production?
http://n2.nabble.com/-Portfolio--Who-uses-freeform-portfolios-in-production--tt2486974.html#a2486974
[Using Sakai - Portfolio, User] Anyone using Portfolio for document
approval process workflow?
http://n2.nabble.com/Re%3A--Portfolio---DG%3A-User---Using-Sakai--Anyone-using-Portfolio-for-document-approval-process-workflow--tt2505204.html#a2505204
[Using Sakai - User, Teaching & Learning] Migration strategy - Old LMS
support
http://n2.nabble.com/Migration-strategy---Old-LMS-support-tt2510858.html#a2510858
[Using Sakai - User] Gradebook "Student View"
http://n2.nabble.com/-DG%3A-User---Using-Sakai--Gradebook-%22Student-View%22-tt2491413.html#a2491413
[Using Sakai - User] Sakai translation
http://n2.nabble.com/-DG%3A-User---Using-Sakai--Sakai-translation-tt2437998.html#a2437998
[Using Sakai - User Experience] Sakai Design Patterns?
http://n2.nabble.com/-DG%3A-User-Experience--Sakai-Design-Patterns--tt2457824.html#a2458273
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12. Events
Second Rhode Island Sakai Conference
March 31-April 1, 2009
Providence Biltmore Hotel Providence, Rhode Island
www.ri.net
2nd European Sakai Conference
May (4)-5-6, 2009
Stockholm University
Stockholm, Sweden http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/CNF/European+Regional+Conference+in+Stockholm+2009
eLearning Africa
09 May 27- 29, 2009
Le Meridien President
Dakar, Senegal
www.elearning-africa.com.
2009 MoodleMoot San Francisco and 2nd Sloan-C Symposium on Emerging
Technology in Online Learning
June 17-19, 2009
Hyatt Regency San Francisco
San Francisco, California
http://moodlemoot.org/course/view.php?id=9
http://www.emergingonlinelearningtechnology.org/
10th Sakai Conference: Boston
July 8-10, 2009
Cambridge Hyatt
Cambridge, Massachusetts
http://www.sakaiproject.org/portal/site/sakai-news/page/04ed2fa2-77e2-40da-8100-e0a08b9fea15
Assessment Institute in Indianapolis
October 25-27, 2009
The Westin Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana
http://www.planning.iupui.edu/institute
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Here are email addresses to contact if you encounter problems with
various Sakai Community systems:
Collab -- collab-admins at umich.edu
Confluence -- confluence-admins at collab.sakaiproject.org
Jira -- jira-admins at collab.sakaiproject.org
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