[Announcements] Sakai Newsletter March 18, 2010
Margaret Wagner
mwagner at umich.edu
Thu Mar 25 11:02:39 PDT 2010
Sakai Newsletter
March 18, 2010
1. From the Executive Director
2. Conference Call Codes Have Changed
3. Sakai Executive Director Position Search
4. Announcing a Spanish QA Server
5. University of Capetown Sakai 3 Plans
6. Advance CAMP: The Second Identity Services Summit
7. ePortfolio Position Announcement, Virginia Tech
8. Recent Email Group Discussions
9. Events
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1. From the Executive Director
The JA-Sakai conference met last week in Kumamoto, Japan, and I had
the opportunity to attend the meeting, meet our colleagues there, and
learn more about the use of Sakai in Japan. Japan has an active group
of Sakai schools with both production and pilot instances in use
throughout the country's universities. This year's conference,
attended by approximately 100 people, was convened by Dr. Matsuba
Ryuichi of Kumamoto University, and featured presenters from six
different universities in Japan: Kumamoto, Nagoya, Hosei, Kansai,
Meiji, Kyoto, as well as Lance Speelmon and me from the Sakai
Foundation. Two themes emerged at the conference. First, Sakai is
well regarded by the schools that run it in production, and several
more are beginning evaluation of the software for courses and
portfolios. There is traction for Sakai and the potential for even
wider adoption. Second, the participants are keenly interested in the
Sakai 3 development because of the fresh approach to learning,
research and collaboration support. This development resonates with
their plans for advancement in education.
The conference host, Kumamoto University, has an active practice in
using portfolios to support their innovative education approach and
uses Sakai to support this work. The team has developed integration
between their WebCT course management system and Sakai to keep data in
synch. It's quite a nice piece of technical work, and will be
presented at the conference in Denver. See
http://www.gsis.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/en/gp/index.html for more information
about Kumamoto University's portfolio practice.
Lois Brooks
Executive Director
Sakai Foundation
lbrooks at stanford.edu
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2. Conference Call Codes Have Changed
Hi everyone,
Make a note that the conference call codes you've been using will no
longer as of March 26. You will have to use the new codes for your
scheduled meetings. Please let your attendees know of the change.
We've been notified that the bridges we use for conference calls
(provided graciously by Indiana U., with great appreciation by the
Sakai community) will have the "conference room" codes changed on
March 27.
The dial-in number remains the same, but you will need to prefix the
session code with "22". For example, the Sakai001 bridge will change
from "348#" to "22348#."
Details are on the wiki at:
http://bit.ly/chAzmJ
Sincerely,
Pieter Hartsook
Sakai Foundation Communications Manager
hartsook at sakaifoundation.org
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3. Sakai Executive Director Position Search
Dear Sakai Community,
I am writing to let you know that the Sakai Board of Directors has
opened a position search for a new Sakai Foundation Executive
Director. As you probably know, Michael Korcuska recently left the
Sakai Foundation to pursue another opportunity, and I have stepped
into the leadership role for the interim until this position is
filled. We are now beginning this search.
The Board seeks a visionary leader to serve as Executive Director.
With nearly 100 academic and corporate members, and over 200
institutional deployments on six continents, the Sakai community is
robust, global and growing. The Sakai community is marked by active
development projects, a deeply engaged teaching and learning
constituency, and well established communities of practice, all
contributing significantly to the development of the Sakai software.
The Executive Director manages the Foundation activities and staff,
leads the community, and engages with agencies and organizations on
behalf of the Foundation. Because the Sakai community is global, and
the staff spread across the US and Europe, there is no location
requirement for the position. We welcome applications from all
locations.
A job description for the Executive Director position may be found at:
http://sakaiproject.org/sakai-foundation-executive-director-search
Interested candidates should submit a letter of interest and resume/cv
to Mary Miles, mmiles at sakaifoundation.org. Resumes will be accepted
through April 20, 2010. Confidential inquiries may be directed to me
at lbrooks at sakaifoundation.org
Sincerely,
Lois Brooks
Executive Director
Sakai Foundation
lbrooks at sakaifoundation.org
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4. Announcing a Spanish QA server
Hi all,
I am happy to announce a new QA server in our midst running under a
Spanish translation: qa1-es.sakaiproject.org. The server is being run
by the SIGMA corporation
(http://www.gestionuniversitariasigma.com/en/about-us.html). Having a
non English QA server will enhance the community's ability to support
Internationalization.
Alan Berg
QA Director
Sakai Foundation
http://home.uva.nl/a.m.berg
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5. University of Capetown Sakai 3 Plans
Hi all,
University of Capetown (UCT) is firming up a strategy for our Sakai 3
deployment, which is:
- To deploy Sakai 3 as an independent parallel system to our Sakai 2
instance (Vula) by December 2010, primarily aimed at early adopters
who wish to explore functionality not well addressed in Sakai 2.
- If all goes well, to migrate Vula to Sakai 3 (probably running in
hybrid mode with Sakai 2 for some tools) in December 2011 in time for
the 2012 academic year.
For our medium-term work on Sakai 3, we plan to identify and explore
several aspects of functionality. On the table so far we have:
1. Using Sakai to support freeform portfolios (with our first use case
being a postgrad course taught in our department)
2. Exploring integration with cloud apps (relevant as UCT is exploring
a move to cloud-hosted email, which could also entail apps suites such
as Google Apps or Microsoft Live)
We will share more details of how we aim to do this and contribute to
the Sakai 3 projects as plans evolve. So far we anticipate our
involvement being more on the design and UX side than on the kernel
development side.
Regards,
Stephen Marquard
stephen.marquard at uct.ac.za
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6. Advance CAMP: The Second Identity Services Summit
Register now for the Advance CAMP (Campus Architecture and Middleware
Planning) workshop, "The Second Identity Services Summit," June 23-25,
2010, in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Are you a developer or architect from an open-source or other software
or framework project? Want to collaborate on identity and access
management approaches to ensure that your delivered software is more
secure, easy to integrate and usable?
Attend the Advance CAMP: The Second Identity Services Summit to
discuss identity-related implementations and alignment across projects.
Attendees will:
- Engage in solving identity-related challenges of importance to you
- Hear about who's doing what and how to participate in or leverage
their activities
- Consider technologies such as Facebook, OAuth, OpenID, SAML, Kuali
KIM, OpenSocial, Spring, and Django, among others
- Look at possible integration solutions and develop common next steps
Architects, developers, and deployers of open source, and
commercial-sponsored software, services, and frameworks will find
participation most useful.
REGISTER BY MAY 10 to save money with low early-bird rates.
CAMP: EXPLORING AND SUPPORTING FEDERATED IDENTITY MANAGEMENT will be
held just prior to Advance CAMP. Information can be found on the CAMP
landing page.
ADVANCE CAMP is sponsored by the InCommon Federation in cooperation
with Internet2, Jasig, and Kuali.
For more information and to register: www.incommon.org/camp
Jonathan Markow
jmarkow at gmail.com
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7. ePortfolio Position Announcement, Virginia Tech
All,
I am very excited to announce that we are hiring a second Assistant
Director (AD) in the ePortfolio Initiatives office at Virginia Tech.
This AD will be focused on technological enhancement and will work
closely with the Sakai community on OSP development. A full position
description is attached to this email.
Assistant Director, ePortfolio Development
Position to begin: ~July 10, 2010
For a description of the position and to apply, go to
http://jobs.vt.edu/ and search for position #090234.
And, just FYI, another position will be announced soon, this one
working in our Online Course Support office for more general support
and faculty development with Sakai on our campus. Look for that
posting coming soon!
Marc Zaldivar
Director, Virginia Tech Electronic Portfolio Initiatives
marcz at vt.edu
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8. Recent Discussion Group Items
[Building Sakai] Need help on sakai.properties setting for Search Tool
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Need-help-on-sakai-properties-setting-for-Search-Tool-td4798045.html#a4798045
[Building Sakai] What is the project type of JForum ?
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-What-is-the-project-type-of-JForum-td4798036.html#a4798123
[Building Sakai] Oracle LONG to CLOB
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Oracle-LONG-to-CLOB-td4797887.html#a4797887
[Building Sakai] Additional Translations for: sam and profile2
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Additional-Translations-for-sam-and-profile2-td4797497.html#a4797497
[Building Sakai] Bug: ToolException: Cannot find bean in any scope
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Bug-ToolException-Cannot-find-bean-in-any-scope-td4797406.html#a4797406
[Building Sakai] Sakai Nakamura 0.4 Release
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Sakai-Nakamura-0-4-Release-td4797322.html#a4797322
[Building Sakai] media players
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-media-players-td4797167.html#a4797167
[Building Sakai] Forums, Blog Wow and Wiki uselessly slow
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Forums-Blog-Wow-and-Wiki-uselessly-slow-td4795713.html#a4795713
[Building Sakai] [Management] Deprecation summary page
http://n2.nabble.com/Deprecation-summary-page-td4786985.html#a4791049
[Building Sakai] SAK-13345 SQL change and Sakai 2.5
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-SAK-13345-SQL-change-and-Sakai-2-5-td4793426.html#a4793426
[Building Sakai] Fwd: help: How to know used technologies in a tool
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-help-How-to-know-used-technologies-in-a-tool-td4788860.html#a4788860
[Building Sakai] More on Covers - From Twitter
http://n2.nabble.com/forum/Search.jtp?tpl=search-page&node=1343168&query=More+on+Covers+-+From+Twitter&days=0
[Building Sakai] Chinese Character
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Chinese-Character-td4788845.html#a4788845
[Building Sakai] unit test and Eclipse
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-unit-test-and-Eclipse-td4787374.html#a4787374
[Building Sakai] SharePoint Sakai Web Part?
http://n2.nabble.com/SharePoint-Sakai-Web-Part-td1675697.html#a1675697
[Using Sakai] Learning Object Repositories and Sakai
http://n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Learning-Object-Repositories-and-Sakai-td4778178.html#a4778178
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9. Events
2nd Annual Etudes Users' Summit
May 13 & May 14, 2010
Burlingame / San Francisco, California
Crowne Plaza San Francisco International
http://etudes.org/summit/
2010 Sakai Annual Conference
Tuesday - Thursday, June 15-17, 2010
Pre-conference sessions: Monday, June 14, 2010
Hyatt Regency Tech Center
Denver, Colorado
http://sakaiproject.org/news/2010-sakai-conference-website-goes-live-call-proposals-now-open
Advance CAMP (Campus Architecture and Middleware Planning) Workshop
"The Second Identity Services Summit"
June 23-25, 2010
Raleigh, North Carolina
www.incommon.org/camp
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