[Announcements] Sakai Newsletter October 29, 2009
Margaret Wagner
mwagner at umich.edu
Sun Nov 1 12:56:48 PST 2009
Sakai Newsletter
October 29, 2009
1. From the Executive Director
2. Nominees for Sakai Board
3. Meeting III of Sakai Spanish Users
4. Call for Proposals -- Jasig 2010
5. New NSF Scholarships Available at Marist for Fall 2010 Freshmen
6. Sash 0.1.3 Released
7. Call for Award Committee Members
8. SoftChalk and Sakai Integration -- Beta Available
9. Recent Email Group Discussions
10. Events
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1. From the Executive Director
Greetings! I'm furiously preparing for the annual trip to Educause
and the Sakai board meeting that precedes the conference. It should be
fairly easy to find me as there are a number of Sakai-related events
at this year's conference:
- I'm part of a Point/Counterpoint session entitled "Blackboard,
Moodle and Sakai" [1]
- I have a Community Showcase session about Sakai 3. [2]
- Sakai is co-sponsoring the Open Source Reception on Wednesday
evening. RSVP if you'd like to attend. [3]
- Josh Baron is part of a Sakai session entitled "Community-Source
Evaluation Strategies: Is Sakai Right for Your Institution?" [4]
Pieter Hartsook, Sakai Communication Manager, will be attending with
me and I expect he'll be using Twitter throughout the conference. You
can follow SakaiProject on twitter to see what he's up to.
I hope to see many of you in Denver!
[1] http://www.educause.edu/E09+Hybrid/EDUCAUSE2009FacetoFaceConferen/BlackboardMoodleandSakai/175839
[2] http://www.educause.edu/E09+Hybrid/EDUCAUSE2009FacetoFaceConferen/CreatingSakai3TheProductandthe/175883
[3] http://sakai.pingg.com/EducauseOS2009
[4] http://www.educause.edu/E09+Hybrid/EDUCAUSE2009FacetoFaceConferen/CommunitySourceEvaluationStrat/176106
Michael Korcuska
Executive Director, Sakai Foundation
mkorcuska at sakaifoundation.org
phone: +1 510-859-4247 (google voice)
skype: mkorcuska
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2. Nominees for Sakai Board
As you know, we solicited nominations for the four Board seats that
will be vacant on January 1, 2010. After verification of their
willingness to serve, the nominees were asked to provide a photo, bio,
and platform statement. These have been compiled in alphabetical
order and can be viewed at: http://sakaiproject.org/board-directors-candidates-elections-2009
.
Voting by the designated representatives will occur October 31 -
November 13, with new board members officially taking their seat on
January 1, 2010.
Mary Miles
Sakai Foundation
Administrative Coordinator
mmiles at umich.edu
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3. Meeting III of Sakai Spanish Users
Hello,
Here at the UPNA (Public University of Navarra - Spain) we have
scheduled a meeting between the Spanish users of Sakai (and everybody
who wants to come) on the 19th and 20th of November. Is the third
meeting of this kind to take place in Spain.
The URL for the event is http://www.fundacion.unavarra.es/sakai/
Best regards,
Daniel Merino
Universidad Publica de Navarra (Public University of Navarra) - Spain
daniel.merino at unavarra.es
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4. Call for Proposals: Jasig 2010 -- Ten Years of Open Source
Innovation
March 8 - 10, 2010
The Town and Country Resort, San Diego, California
Supplementary Seminars on March 7th and the afternoon of March 10th
Developer Workshops: March 11 - 12
Conference site: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/10spring/index.html
Deadline for submission of proposals for half or full day seminars:
November 4, 2009
Deadline for submission of proposals for all other sessions: November
18, 2009
Dear Colleagues:
Help us celebrate Jasig's 10th anniversary in San Diego with
outstanding speakers and special events.
The focus is on innovation this year. We'll be highlighting new and
established work from higher education institutions: Projects you
should know about; local projects in search of community; creative
work by established communities of practice; projects that exist only
as a gleam in the eye of a creative developer.
Come and see presentations and seminars on new technologies soon to
impact higher education. We're seeking talks on topics such as Scala,
Spring 3, deployment to the Cloud, Groovy, Grails, REST, Jersey,
mobile applications, etc.
We invite you to propose talks, seminars, birds-of-a-feather sessions,
demos, and poster session displays on new and current campus
applications: Enterprise portlets, CAS, uPortal, Bedework Calendar,
Identity & Access Management, Fluid, ESUP Helpdesk, OpenRegistry,
Sakai, Kuali, Internet2 Middleware Solutions, Fedora and DSpace, and
others.
Talks will be presented in one of four tracks:
- Designing & Developing -- For developers, architects, UX designers,
testers. Presentations for people who build applications.
- Deploying & Integrating -- For people who need to make applications
work on campus: developers, content providers, team leaders,
evangelists. In particular, we would like to highlight work that
integrates open source projects within the enterprise infrastructure
and with each other.
- Managing & Governing -- What are best practices for managing
community source projects or their deployments on campus? For
encouraging adoption? For gaining acceptance and campus buy-in? For
engaging your community in the processes? Presentations for managers,
team leaders, executives, planners and strategists.
- Looking Ahead -- What are the technologies that will impact higher
education in the coming years? What project work, prototypes, plans,
and local campus applications would you like to share with a community
of your peers?
Submit your proposal directly at http://www.ja-sig.org/jasigconf/call-form.jsp?conf_id=jasig17
or from the conference home page, where you can find all the
details: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/10spring/index.html
(Click the Call for Proposals link on the left.)
We look forward to seeing you at Ten Years of Open Source Innovation!
-- The Jasig 2010 Spring Conference Planning Committee
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5. New NSF Scholarships Available at Marist for Fall 2010 Freshmen
Thanks to a substantial grant from the National Science Foundation,
Marist College is able to offer full 4-year tuition, room and board
scholarships to selected incoming freshmen in September 2010. To be
considered for a scholarship, a student must be a Computer Science or
Information Technology and Systems major, academically talented and
financially needy. Details on eligibility criteria and instructions
on how to apply can be found at http://www.marist.edu/admission/nsfgrant/
.
The purpose of the grant is to contribute to the development of IT
specialists who will be well prepared to meet the overwhelming demand
expected in the field.
Additional benefits to the scholarship winners include:
- State-of-the-art PC laptop with cutting-edge processor and graphic
accelerator for maximum horsepower
- Opportunity to participate in high-level internships and applied
research with Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, Aetna, Pepsi, and
Verizon
- Special advising from the dean and key faculty in the School of
Computer Science and Mathematics
- Leaders from IBM, Verizon, Aetna, and Pepsi will serve as individual
mentors to these students throughout their four years
- A two-semester course in game development and design
- An exclusive summer orientation to familiarize them with campus
services and resources, introduce them to faculty and their academic
program, and cultivate camaraderie with fellow scholarship recipients
Applications are being accepted now. To learn more, students can go
directly to the website above, or call the Marist Admissions Office at
845-575-3226 to speak with an Admission Counselor and mention "NSF
Scholarships."
Dr. Roger L. Norton
Dean School of Computer Science & Mathematics
Marist College
(845) 575-3610
roger.norton at marist.edu
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6. Sash 0.1.3 Released
Sash 0.1.3, a set of shell and development tools for Sakai, is now
available. 0.1.3 primarily adds vi support (beta) as well as a few
minor cosmetic fixes. This has been tested on Sakai 2.6.x, but the
build artifacts should be binary compatible with Sakai 2.4.x, 2.5.x, and
trunk.
Download:
https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/sakaiscript/sash/tags/sash-0.1.3/
Demo screencast:
http://blip.tv/file/2763785
Cheers,
Steven Githens
swgithen at mtu.edu
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7. Call for Award Committee Members
The Sakai Teaching and Learning Group is forming the 2010 Award
Committee to oversee this year's Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award.
Each of the past two years we've had a strong applicant pool and
selected two outstanding finalists. If you missed the winners' 2009
presentations in Boston, you can watch Andrea Crampton at http://www.vimeo.com/5610058
and Edith Sheffer athttp://www.vimeo.com/5623121.
If you would like to view last year's entries, they are available on
the OpenEdPractices.org website, http://openedpractices.org/courses.
The evaluation rubric used for the award is located at http://openedpractices.org/files/TWSIA_Rubric.pdf
.
We hope to continue the success of 2008 and 2009 and are looking for
committee members that represent many different groups within our
community, so please don't hesitate to sign up even if you don't have
a teaching and learning background. Please contact Kate Ellis (kdellis at indiana.edu
) or Susan Roig (susan.roig at cgu.edu) if you are interested in working
with us.
Thank you for your support.
Sue Roig
TWSIA 2010 Committee Co-Chair
Director Academic Technology
Claremont Graduate University
SunGard Higher Education
150 E. Tenth Street, Claremont, CA 91711
Tel 909-607-8412 Fax 909-607-7285
susan.roig at cgu.edu
www.sungardhe.com
Kate Ellis
TWSIA 2010 Committee Co-Chair
Indiana University Bloomington
Instructional Technology Consultant
Teaching and Learning Technologies Center
Wells Library 305 West Tower
812-855-9024
kdellis at indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~tltc?
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8. SoftChalk and Sakai Integration -- Beta Available
Be first to review SoftChalk v5 and Sakai Integration.
The SoftChalk /Sakai integration is nearing the official release date
and SoftChalk invites you to be the first to gain access to the new
and exciting features.
Soon you will be able to easily create engaging, interactive content
for your Sakai Course with SoftChalk!
- Configure SoftChalk and publish your SoftChalk lessons directly into
Sakai
- Easily publish your lesson content to more than one site
- Re-open, edit and save changes to lessons previously published to
Sakai
To participate in the Beta Test and review, send an email request to: shelia at softchalk.com
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9. Recent Email Group Discussions
[Building Sakai] joining a site from within the site itself
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-joining-a-site-from-within-the-site-itself-td3910941.html#a3912990
[Building Sakai] manage group with the new role problem in siteinfo
(sakai 2.6)
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-manage-group-with-the-new-role-problem-in-siteinfo-sakai-2-6-td3906420.html#a3906420
[Building Sakai] Site Stats Install
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Site-Stats-Install-td3905926.html#a3905926
[Building Sakai] Proposal: Include virus scaning in Sakai kernel
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Proposal-Include-virus-scaning-in-Sakai-kernel-td3907199.html#a3910591
[Building Sakai] Development enviroment setup
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Development-enviroment-setup-td3900098.html#a3900098
[Building Sakai] Subversion upgrade - downtime needed
http://n2.nabble.com/Re-Subversion-upgrade-downtime-needed-td3868522.html#a3868522
[Building Sakai] Sakai 3 Capabilities
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Sakai-3-Capabilities-td3904393.html#a3904393
[Building Sakai] Can a map property be set in sakai.properties?
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Can-a-map-property-be-set-in-sakai-properties-td3902340.html#a3902340
[Building Sakai] Nightly2: trunk experimental now available
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Nightly2-trunk-experimental-now-available-td3901842.html#a3901842
[Building Sakai] Assignment+Gradebook integration: "Save" grade
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Assignment-Gradebook-integration-Save-grade-td3894659.html#a3894659
[Building Sakai] Preferences -> Language
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Preferences-Language-td3897497.html#a3897497
[Building Sakai] [Deploying Sakai] 2.6.0-2.6.1 mysql conversion
http://n2.nabble.com/Deploying-Sakai-2-6-0-2-6-1-mysql-conversion-td3892481.html#a3892481
[Building Sakai] How to create and define tools custom roles
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-How-to-create-and-define-tools-custom-roles-td3869454.html#a3869623
[Announcements] Sash 0.1.3 Released
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Sash-0-1-3-Released-td3887891.html#a3887891
[Portfolio] Portfolios for school/college accreditation?
http://n2.nabble.com/Portfolio-Portfolios-for-school-college-accreditation-td3858760.html#a3858760
[Portfolio] [Management] A manifesto for Grading and Rating in Sakai
http://n2.nabble.com/Portfolio-A-manifesto-for-Grading-and-Rating-in-Sakai-td3834665.html#a3834665
[DG: User Experience] [Using Sakai] Some thoughts on group functionality
http://n2.nabble.com/Re-DG-User-Experience-Using-Sakai-Some-thoughts-on-group-functionality-td3892976.html#a3893819
[DG: User Experience] Coding Styles, specifically JS > Re: [sakai-
kernel] Re: Small changes
http://n2.nabble.com/DG-User-Experience-Coding-Styles-specifically-JS-Re-sakai-kernel-Re-Small-changes-td3906551.html#a3906551
[DG: User Experience] easy way to turnoff chat in 3akai for debugging?
http://n2.nabble.com/DG-User-Experience-easy-way-to-turnoff-chat-in-3akai-for-debugging-td3881782.html#a3881782
[Using Sakai] Tools that are timezone-aware?
http://n2.nabble.com/Using-Sakai-Tools-that-are-timezone-aware-td3908088.html#a3908088
[Using Sakai] SoftChalk and Sakai integration - beta available
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-SoftChalk-and-Sakai-integration-beta-available-td3906524.html#a3906524
[Building Sakai] Are you Waving? (via Google)
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Are-you-Waving-via-Google-td3867277.html#a3867277
[Building Sakai] Development enviroment setup
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Development-enviroment-setup-td3900098.html#a3900098
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10. Events
III Reunión de usuarios de Sakai en España
19 - 20 de noviembre, 2010
Universidad Pública de Navarra
http://www.fundacion.unavarra.es/sakai/
Online Educa Berlin 2009
December 2-4, 2009
Hotel InterContinental Berlin
Berlin, Germany
http://www.online-educa.com/the-conference
Jasig 2010 Ten Years of Open Source Innovation
March 8-10, 2009
The Town and Country Resort
San Diego, California
http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/10spring/index.html
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