[Announcements] Sakai 3 coordinated project

[Lois Brooks]

Dear Sakai Community,

Work on a new vision for academic collaboration software has been  
underway at several universities for more than a year.  Dubbed Sakai  
3, the project aims to deliver a new vision  of online support for  
academic activity (teaching, learning, research, administration and  
social life).  Building on ideas developed with the Sakai 2 learning  
and collaboration software, the Sakai 3 project incorporates  
principles of social networking, content creation and sharing, and a  
broadly defined academic workflow.   Tailored versions of Sakai 3 are  
already in use at a few institutions, and pilots are planned at  
several other universities in 2010.

Representatives from several universities and the Sakai Foundation  
banded together a few months ago to jumpstart the planning process for  
a community release of a fully functional product in June 2011.   The  
team plans to develop the coordination around the project at next  
week's conference, and hopes to recruit others to participate in  
design and development.  In preparation for the conference, documents  
from the planning phase of this project are available on Confluence at http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SAKDEV/Sakai+3 
  under the header "Coordinated Project for a Community Release".    
These are working documents and will be updated as the project  
progresses.  We welcome your input on the Confluence pages and at the  
Sakai conference next week.

Lois Brooks