[Announcements] Sakai Newsletter July 1, 2010

Thu Jul 8 10:03:47 PDT 2010

Sakai Newsletter

July 1, 2010

1.  New Sakai Executive Director, Ian Dolphin

2.  New Sakai 3 Project Director, Alan Marks

3.  Call for Resources: Managed Sakai 3 Project

4.  Save the Date - Sakai 2011 Conference

5.  Sakai Teaching and Learning (T&L) Group - New Initiatives - Call  
for Ideas and Assistance

6.  University of Virginia Upgrades

7.  rSmart Welcomes New Community Members

8.  Columbia University Job Opening

9.  Job Opening at Virginia Tech:  Dir. of Online Learning and  
Collaboration Services

10. Recent Email Group Discussions

11. Events

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1. New Sakai Executive Director, Ian Dolphin

Please welcome Ian Dolphin as the new executive director of the Sakai  
Foundation.  Ian currently serves as the international director of the  
e-Framework Partnership.  Based with the UK Joint Information Systems  
Committee (JISC), his role has focused on broadening education and  
research collaboration projects between government and public agencies  
in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

Through his service on the boards of the Sakai Foundation, Jasig,  
Curriki Global Education and Learning Community, and the European  
Multimedia Forum, Ian has gained a breadth of experience in education  
open source community leadership.

Ian is an avid photographer, sharing photos from his travels at  
http://www.flickr.com/people/iandolphin/. He is also very active on  
Twitter (@iandolphin24), where he provides regular updates on the  
behavior of the humber sheep.

Ian joins the Foundation formally on August 1, 2010, and can be  
reached at iandolphin at sakaifoundation.org.

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2. New Sakai 3 Project Director, Alan Marks

Alan Marks has joined the Sakai Foundation as Project Director for the  
managed Sakai 3 project. Alan will be a Sakai Foundation employee  
reporting to Sakai Foundation executive director, Ian Dolphin, and  
accountable to the Sakai 3 steering group. The position is supported,  
at present, by funds from the participating institutions.

Alan has 18 years of experience in all phases of software development  
from concept through release to sustained engineering. He has directed  
product development and managed significant software projects for  
Microsoft, HP, SAP, Adobe and others.

Alan can be reached at alanmarks at sakaifoundation.org.

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3. Call for Resources:  Managed Sakai 3 Project

The managed Sakai 3 project has made significant progress. A formal  
steering group has been formed which includes: co-chair Ian Dolphin  
(executive director, Sakai Foundation), co-chair Philip Uys (Charles  
Sturt), David Ackerman (NYU), Clay Fenlason (product manager, Sakai  
Foundation and Georgia Tech), David Goodrum (Indiana), Oliver Heyer  
(UC Berkeley), and John Norman (Cambridge).

Each institution represented in the steering group has or is  
attempting to tender significant resources to the managed project. The  
steering group has selected a dedicated project director, Alan Marks,  
and defined a specific project roadmap for the managed Sakai 3  
project. Progress, plans, and context can be found at  
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SAKDEV/Sakai+3.

Additional resources are still required to execute the Sakai 3  
roadmap. Please review the MoU (Memorandum of Understanding for  
Contributing Partners), which describes the resource needs. The  
project can also accept donations of funding -- large or small --  
which can be pooled to address resource needs. The success of the  
Sakai 3 project requires broad participation. If you have questions,  
please contact Ian Dolphin (iandolphin at sakaifoundation.org) or Philip  
Uys (puys at csu.edu.au).

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4. Save the Date - Sakai 2011 Conference

Are you suffering from withdrawal from daily interaction with your  
Sakai community colleagues? The next annual Sakai conference is only  
11.5 months away. Mark the dates on your calendar now. We will meet in  
Berlin at the Ramada Hotel Berlin - Alexanderplatz on June 14 - 16,  
with pre-conference sessions on June 13.

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5. Sakai Teaching and Learning (T&L) Group - New Initiatives - Call  
for Ideas and Assistance

All members of the Sakai Community are invited to join the Teaching  
and Learning group as it plans initiatives for the coming year. In  
addition to continuing work on the Learning Capabilities Design Lenses  
and the Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award, the T&L Group is  
brainstorming possible new initiatives, including Distance Learning,  
Student Engagement, and Enhancing Communication. We are seeking ideas  
from both the community and members to help. To see the T&L Group's  
work and contribute to the conversation, please visit our Confluence  
page: http://tinyurl.com/SakaiTL.

Rob Coyle
rcoyle at jhu.edu

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6. University of Virginia Upgrades

The University of Virginia is pleased to announce that we successfully  
upgraded from version 2.5.3 to version 2.6.2 on May 25, 2010.

Trisha Gordon
UVaCollab Project Lead and User Support Manager
https://collab.itc.virginia.edu
collab-support at virginia.edu

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7. rSmart Welcomes New Community Members

Each month rSmart works with a new group of institutions to install  
and use the rSmart Sakai CLE. Bringing new institutions into the Sakai  
community is an important part of our contribution. It is our pleasure  
to welcome the following institutions that are adopting and  
implementing Sakai:

Northeastern Community College, in Nebraska, has just made a decision  
to transition from Blackboard's Angel Learning to rSmart's Sakai CLE.

St. George's University, a medical veterinary school in Grenada, is  
moving to Sakai from Blackboard's Angel Learning and has already  
smoothly transitioned content for many courses to Sakai. Having spent  
a week on campus, we believe that St. George's is the perfect venue  
for a future Sakai Conference.

Smyrna School District in Delaware will implement Sakai as a platform  
for faculty development, with plans to increase access to students  
over time.

The Uniformed Services University will use Sakai and will also begin  
implementation of Kuali Rice in preparation for broader use of the  
Kuali enterprise suite. rSmart looks forward to working with USU and  
the Naval Postgraduate School to identify integration and leverage  
points between Sakai and our sister community, Kuali.

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8. Columbia University Job Opening

Columbia University is currently hiring for a position on its Web  
Architecture team that includes duties related to our current LMS and  
Sakai. This position is fully described at:

http://jobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=118961

Candidates must submit a resume and cover letter via the above link  
for formal consideration. Preliminary inquiries and questions are  
welcome and should be addressed to Carol Kassel, ckassel at columbia.edu.

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9. Job Opening at Virginia Tech:  Director of Online Learning and  
Collaboration Services

Virginia Tech invites applications for the position of Director of  
Online Learning and Collaboration Services. Reporting to Learning  
Technologies' Senior Director for Strategy and Planning, the director  
provides leadership and management of central online learning and  
collaboration systems and services supporting teaching, learning,  
discovery and engagement throughout the university. This position  
requires a dynamic "systems-thinker" with professional experience in a  
complex technology-intensive environment providing robust customer  
service, conducting training, and managing a staff unit.

The director develops and maintains face-to-face interaction and  
collaboration opportunities with clients and a team of professional  
peers in Learning Technologies, Distance Learning, and other  
university units to strategize on existing and potential new service  
offerings, product selections, and policies, and to ensure the  
efficacy, soundness and relevance of these services to the university  
community. The director collaborates with a team of application  
developers, systems integrators, help desk agents, trainers and  
documentation developers to ensure excellence in system functionality  
and performance and to provide effective end-user support and  
training. This position requires a comprehensive and thorough  
knowledge of these systems as a whole as well as an understanding of  
the multiple ways they are integrated into other systems such as SIS  
and Banner. The director also coordinates QA testing for all upgrades  
and new service deployments.

To learn more about this position or to apply, please visit  
http://www.jobs.vt.edu and search for posting number 0100409 (Director  
of Online Learning and Collaboration Services). Review of applications  
will begin on August 2, 2010.

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10. Recent Email Group Discussions

[Building Sakai] About License and inclusion in the map Who is using SAKAI?
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-About-License-and-inclusion-in-the-map-Who-is-using-SAKAI-td5248925.html#a5248925

[Building Sakai] Assessment zombies in gradebook
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Assessment-zombies-in-gradebook-td5248751.html#a5248751

[Building Sakai] Assignment "In/New" counts all read 0 after upgrade
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Assignment-In-New-counts-all-read-0-after-upgrade-td5241486.html#a5248913

[Building Sakai] Entitypicker
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Entitypicker-td5249399.html#a5249399

[Building Sakai] External LDAP users in a clustered environment.
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-External-LDAP-users-in-a-clustered-environment-td5248997.html#a5249017

[Building Sakai] Fwd: Add Users
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Add-Users-td5208547.html#a5208547

[Building Sakai] presence.events.log
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-presence-events-log-td5246698.html#a5246698

[Building Sakai] Profile2 v1.3.9 release imminent
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Profile2-v1-3-9-release-imminent-td5245853.html#a5245853

[Building Sakai] Public announcements from Admin Workspace not possible?
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Public-announcements-from-Admin-Workspace-not-possible-td5246572.html#a5246572

[Building Sakai] Spam and list moderation
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Spam-and-list-moderation-td5244963.html#a5244963

[Building Sakai] students unable to create course sites in 2.6
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-students-unable-to-create-course-sites-in-2-6-td5244970.html#a5244970

[Building Sakai] SVN checkin issue
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-SVN-checkin-issue-td5249091.html#a5249091

[Building Sakai] User account integration
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-User-account-integration-td5248159.html#a5248159

[Building Sakai] Web service and Samigo
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/template/NodeServlet.jtp?tpl=search-page&node=1343168&query=Web+service+and+Samigo&days=0

[Building Sakai] wsetup.home.toolids and Home page synoptic tool order
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-wsetup-home-toolids-and-Home-page-synoptic-tool-order-td5248186.html#a5248334

[DG: Teaching & Learning] please contribute staff and financial  
resources to the S3 project
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/please-contribute-staff-and-financial-resources-to-the-S3-project-td5225254.html#a5225254

[DG: Teaching & Learning] Use of Survey question type in SAMigo
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Using-Sakai-Use-of-Survey-question-type-in-SAMigo-td5223481.html#a5223481

[DG: User Experience] [sakai-kernel] Context sensitive help
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Re-DG-User-Experience-sakai-kernel-Context-sensitive-help-td5218325.html#a5218393

[DG: User Experience] Fwd: UIEtips: Baking Social Interfaces Into Your Design
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/DG-User-Experience-Fwd-UIEtips-Baking-Social-Interfaces-Into-Your-Design-td5224396.html#a5224396

[Portfolio] Clarification: possible OSP independent release
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Portfolio-Clarification-possible-OSP-independent-release-td5231165.html#a5231165

[Portfolio] Image Gallery
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Portfolio-Image-Gallery-td5243684.html#a5243684

[Portfolio] Turning in form instances for assignments
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Portfolio-Turning-in-form-instances-for-assignments-td5248981.html#a5248981

[Using Sakai] Embed button in a rich text editor?
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Using-Sakai-Embed-button-in-a-rich-text-editor-td5245375.html#a5245375

[Using Sakai] how to install sakai bin in an existing tomcat6
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Using-Sakai-how-to-install-sakai-bin-in-an-existing-tomcat6-td5246794.html#a5246794

[Using Sakai] sakai 2.6 broken link on wiki and sakai.properties for  
sakai 2.7 not found in binary
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Using-Sakai-sakai-2-6-broken-link-on-wiki-and-sakai-properties-for-sakai-2-7-not-found-in-binary-td5247165.html#a5247549

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11.  Events

2010 AuSakai Conference
Wednesday - Friday, September 15 - 17
Pre-conference session: Wednesday,  15th September
North Sydney College, Northern Sydney Institute of TAFE
www.nsi.tafensw.edu.au/AuSakai2010

Sakai 2011 Conference
June 14 - 16, 2011
Ramada Hotel Berlin - Alexanderplatz
Berlin, Germany
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