[Announcements] Sakai Newsletter September 9, 2010
Margaret Wagner
mwagner at umich.edu
Mon Sep 20 10:05:53 PDT 2010
Sakai Newsletter
September 9, 2010
1. Jasig to Host New Open Source Community of Practice
2. Sakai 2.8 Release Activity Schedule
3. Teaching & Learning Group Priority Initiatives
4. REMINDER: Call for Judges - Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award
5. Presentations on Distance Learning: Sakai T&L Distance Learning Group
6. TWSIA: Participation Needed To Support New Initiatives and Expansion
7. Job Opening at Oxford: Senior Programmer - Sakai Developer
8. Miami University Job Openings
9. Recent Email Group Discussions
10. Events
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1. Jasig to Host New Open Source Community of Practice
"The 2-3-98 Project" to Provide a Forum for Higher Education Managers,
Administrators
Jasig, the non-profit consortium sponsoring open source, higher
education technology projects, has announced the launch of a new
community of practice, "The 2-3-98 Project".
The 2-3-98 Project will provide self-support for college and
university administrators, managers, and practitioners wishing to take
best advantage of open initiatives, in order to reduce costs and
increase choice. The project will deploy mailing lists, wiki, white
papers, and events to define, assess, and articulate practices
promoting success for higher education adopters.
Jasig announced the new project at SUNY Delhi's third annual 2-3-98
Conference, an event promoting open source in higher education.
Patrick Masson, Chief Technology Officer at UMassOnline, and former
Chief Information Officer at SUNY Delhi, and Ken Udas, UMassOnline
CEO, are organizers of the new Jasig project.
"The 2-3-98 Project reflects a growing recognition that openness is
becoming part of a broader dialogue within many organizations," said
Udas. "I believe that Jasig is doing something quite unique and
valuable by providing a venue to help explore the relationships
between OSS and the organization. It is my feeling that the
exploration will lead well beyond the formal information and
technology functions and extend beyond software to OER, open access
research, and to open governance."
"Considering that the value of open source software, and even the
ideas around openness, remain the subject of much debate, I would hope
that the 2-3-98 Project can foster discussion, contribute
understanding, and advance technology development and adoption
throughout higher education," said Masson. "I am very excited to be
working with Jasig. Jasig's years of experience supporting open
source projects and the communities that contribute to their
development, as well as their focus on higher education, will provide
tremendous resources for 2-3-98 and advance an honest dialogue around
open initiatives. Considering the success of Jasig's other projects,
I know we have a lot of hard, and fun, work ahead."
"By looking together at the risks, rewards, challenges, and methods of
implementing open source applications, we hope to create a dialog that
will provide insights and practice guidelines to help campuses be
successful," said Jonathan Markow, Jasig Executive Director. "The
2-3-98 Project is a great fit with Jasig's values of peer support and
collaboration. We believe that providing a forum and resources for
this initiative fills an important, unmet need in the higher education
community."
Jasig has created a mailing list for The 2-3-98 Project. To
subscribe, visit the Jasig wiki at:
https://wiki.jasig.org/display/JSG/2-3-98
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2. Sakai 2.8 Release Activity Schedule
Colleagues,
The release activity schedule has been drafted, commented upon and
accepted. The TCC would like to take a moment to draw your attention
to a few important milestones for the 2.8 release:
21 September 2010 -- Code Freeze @ 23:59 UTC. The 2.8.x branch will
be created, alpha tags will be produced every two weeks on TUESDAYS
and test plans are in progress or complete.
02 November 2010 -- Beta tags begin on two week cycle, test plans are
due, string freeze date & help documentation changes have been made.
Translations begin.
30 November 2010 -- Outstanding bugs in JIRA are reviewed on
project-by-project basis. Bugs that are no longer issues are closed,
any bug that must be resolved for the 2.8 release (i.e., a Blocker) is
marked as such and tagged correctly in JIRA.
11 January 2011 -- Release Candidate tags begin.
25 January 2011 -- Translations for the 2.8.0 release are checked in
and merged to the 2.8 branch.
15 February 2011 -- Release Readiness Decision Point: The Sakai 2
Technical Coordination Committee will vote on whether or not the
release is ready.
1 March 2011 -- Sakai 2.8 is released by the Sakai Foundation.
A more detailed schedule is available on Confluence at
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org//x/8RkhB.
Sakai 2 Project Leads - The TCC is in the final stages of scoping the
Sakai 2.8.0 release. There are currently a number of Confluence pages
with wish lists, discussions and updates from midsummer
(http://confluence.sakaiproject.org//x/pCYhB &
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org//x/RwghB). Seth and I will be
collecting and creating a document with a list of all changes in the
release. Can you please take a moment to let us know your plans?
It would be helpful if you could tell us if there are no changes, bug
fixes only, list of any API changes and a list of enhancements (w/
JIRA #'s). Please indicate if any of these are still in progress and
we'll touch base with you just prior to code freeze.
All the best,
Megan May
mmmay at indiana.edu
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3. Teaching & Learning Group Priority Initiatives
Following work at the 2010 Sakai Conference in Denver, the Sakai
Teaching and Learning (T&L) group has identified priority initiatives
for the upcoming year. During the year leading up to the 2011 Sakai
Conference in Berlin, the T&L group will focus on the following four
areas:
- Expanding the Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA)
- Continuing advancement of the learning capabilities design lenses
- Sharing best practices and resources for the use of Sakai for
distance learning
- Increasing student engagement in the Sakai community
- Enhancing the current functionality of OpenEdPractices.org
Structurally, the T&L group has formed an initiative group for each of
these categories that will meet on a regular basis. The full T&L group
will hold a call together each month to share progress across the
initiatives. Each quarter, the T&L group will also host a virtual
community gathering to share the work that has been accomplished on
these initiatives and to create opportunities for discussion, feedback
and additional input.
To learn more about the specifics of each of these groups and their
current initiatives please visit the Sakai Teaching and Learning (T&L)
group page: http://bit.ly/SakaiTL.
To Join our the mailing lists or to see the meeting calendar visit the
T&L Communications Page: http://bit.ly/TLCommunication.
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4. REMINDER: Call for Judges -- Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award
The Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA) committee is seeking
distinguished individuals to serve as judges for the fourth annual
competition for this international award. We are looking for judges
who have a passion for teaching, and whose life-long work includes
championing effective learning opportunities first, and technology
second but who are not currently involved in the Sakai community.
The purpose of the award is:
- To drive innovation on teaching and learning within the Sakai community
- To share best practices, understandings and experiences among
faculty members and between faculty and other Sakai community members
- To communicate the goals and issues of the teaching and learning
community to contributors in Sakai including developers, user
interface, system administrators, documentation, support, and quality
assessment
Judges will select the finalists using the award evaluation rubric and
through interviews with the finalists, which are conducted through
web-conferencing technology during the Spring 2011 semester. If you
know anyone who might be interested or whom you would like to
nominate, we would be delighted to hear from you to discuss this
further and answer any questions.
Past entries, finalists and the rubric can be found at
http://openedpractices.org/twsia.
Please email any nominations or questions to Sue Roig
(Susan.Roig at cgu.edu) no later than Friday September 24, 2010.
Read the FULL CALL FOR JUDGES Announcement at:
http://openedpractices.org/twsia-2011-call-for-judges
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5. Presentations on Distance Learning Best Practices: Sakai T&L
Distance Learning Group
Originated at the Sakai 2010 Denver Conference, the Teaching and
Learning (T&L) Distance Learning group was created to explore the
following:
- Share best practices in distance learning and for faculty development
- Build a repository for distance learning
- Create faculty development courses
- Explore Sakai's strengths and weaknesses for distance learning
Starting with our September 16, 2010 call we will begin sharing brief
presentations on Distance Education and Faculty Development in the
area of Distance Education.
If you would like to join us to view the presentations or to join the
conversations of the group please see: http://bit.ly/SakaiDL.
Our full meeting calendar and email list signup can be found at:
http://bit.ly/TLCommunication
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6. TWSIA: Participation Needed To Support New Initiatives and Expansion
As part of these changes, the 2011 TWSIA (Teaching With Sakai
Innovation Award) committee has proposed Award Categories for
submissions, from which winners will be selected. This replaces the
current process of selecting 1st and 2nd place winners and honorable
mentions from all submissions.
The new Award Categories are:
- Fully Online/Hybrid Courses
- K-12 (primary and secondary education)
- Traditional Higher Education (including web-enhanced courses)
- Non-Traditional/Non-Course Sites (including Project Sites, Student
Sites, Portfolios
The committee has also provided a definition of innovation that will
be used for the Award, revised the TWSIA Rubric to reflect aspects of
the new categories, and is refining a new judging process.
While we have accomplished a lot, there is still a significant amount
of work to do.
We are asking at this time for additional support from members of the
Sakai community. In order to determine if there is a better meeting
time we are setting up a Meeting Poll through Doodle
(http://www.doodle.com/saribz6k3pni4bdw ). If you are able to
participate on the TWSIA committee, please indicate your availability
by participating in the poll, or sign up for our TWSIA email list at
http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/twsia ).
Help to the committee can be in many forms:
- Helping Write (Press Releases, Flyers, Text for Website)
- Publishing (Flyers)
- Preliminary Judges
- Participating in the Committee (Helping shape the Award)
- Communication (Spreading the news about the Award around your institution)
- Nominating a Final Judge
- Applying for the Award
Additional information about the TWSIA including past entries and
award winners is available at http://openedpractices.org/twsia
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions,
Rob Coyle
2011 TWSIA Committee Chair
rcoyle at jhu.edu
http://openedpractices.org/twsia
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7. Job Opening at Oxford: Senior Programmer - Sakai Developer
Do you have:
- extensive knowledge of Java, Tomcat, Spring, SQL, Hibernate, XML and
version control systems?
- enthusiasm for designing and building new software for learning?
- proven ability to work well with senior academics and IT specialists?
- excellent communication, presentation, planning and organisational skills?
- experience of developing the Sakai collaborative learning environment?
If so, you may be the person we are looking for to join our VLE
(WebLearn) team.
You will work alongside other VLE developers and learning technology
support officers in the Learning Technologies Group (LTG) within
Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) to develop the service and
support the requirements of our growing user community.
As an experienced developer you will be responsible for planning,
managing, designing, testing and documenting major software
developments.
If you have a track record of successful Open Source code development
and the enthusiasm to keep abreast of new developments, please submit
your application.
The LTG forms an important section within Oxford University Computing
Services (http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk), and is home to many interesting
initiatives to support teaching and research. Benefits include
flexible working, a good pension, excellent career prospects and
holiday provision.
Title -- Senior Programmer - Sakai Developer (Java)
Salary -- £36,715 -£43,840 (If no suitable applicant is forthcoming,
an appointment on the scale £28,983 - £35646 [with an appropriate
adjustment of duties] may be considered.)
This post is offered for one year in the first instance -- it should
be possible to offer this as a "year-long secondment". Please obtain
further details and an application form from:
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jobs/
and
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jobs/sakai-developer.xml
Completed applications must be received by 12 noon on Monday 27th
September 2010. Interviews will be held on Monday 11th October 2010.
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8. Miami University Job Openings
Applications Analyst
Miami University
Oxford, OH
Miami University is currently seeking an Applications Analyst to
provide support to clients by analyzing, defining, developing,
implementing, training and maintaining computer applications. Require
Bachelor's degree in Systems Analysis, Computer Science or a related
field earned by date of hire, or Bachelor's degree in another field by
date of hire and 2+ years full-time work experience developing
web-based applications, or 4+ years full-time work experience
developing web-based applications. Demonstrated experience (either
work experience or educational experience) developing web-based
applications. Demonstrated experience (either work experience or
educational experience) developing applications using database
management systems. Any equivalent combination of education and/or
experience providing the knowledge/skills/abilities listed above may
be substituted. Experience in these knowledge/skills/abilities may be
earned concurrently. Miami University is an EOE/AA employer with
smoke-free campuses. Campus Crime and Safety Report:
www.muohio.edu/righttoknow. Hard copy upon request. Employment will
require a criminal background check according to University
guidelines. For this search, applications will be accepted online
only. www.miamiujobs.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=51180
Learning Systems Coordinator
Miami University
Oxford, OH
Miami University is currently seeking a Learning Systems Coordinator
to provide learning systems support through working with the faculty
governance group, helping to develop strategic understanding of
Collaborative Learning Environment, CLE, roadmap and helping implement
solutions based on input from faculty and IT advisory boards. Assist
in determining the strategic direction of the CLE; recommending and
planning upgrades, etc. Require Bachelor's degree earned by date of
hire. Demonstrated experience in planning, designing, and delivering
learning systems must be shown. Demonstrated experience in project
management must be shown. Any equivalent combination of education
and/or experience providing the knowledge/skills/abilities listed
above may be substituted. Experience in these
knowledge/skills/abilities may be earned concurrently. Miami
University is an EOE/AA employer with smoke-free campuses. Campus
Crime and Safety Report: www.muohio.edu/righttoknow. Hard copy upon
request. Employment will require a criminal background check
according to University guidelines. For this search, applications
will be accepted online only.
www.miamiujobs.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=51200
Systems Analyst
Miami University
Oxford, OH
Miami University is currently seeking a Systems Analyst to participate
in multiple levels of computer application development; including
analysis, design, requirements definition, development, testing,
implementation, training, and production support. Require a
Bachelor's degree in Systems Analysis, Computer Science, Business, or
related field required earned by date of hire, or Bachelor's degree in
another field by date of hire and 4+ years full-time work experience
developing web-based applications, or 6+ years full-time work
experience developing web-based applications. 2+ years work
experience using database management systems in application
development. 2+ years work experience in web-based, application
development. Any equivalent combination of education and/or
experience providing the knowledge/skills/abilities listed above may
be substituted. Experience in these knowledge/skills/abilities may be
earned concurrently. Miami University is an EOE/AA employer with
smoke-free campuses. Campus Crime and Safety Report:
www.muohio.edu/righttoknow. Hard copy upon request. Employment will
require a criminal background check according to University
guidelines. For this search, applications will be accepted online
only. www.miamiujobs.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=51179
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9. Recent Email Group Discussions
[DG: User Experience] Sakai 3 Technical Architecture Documentation?
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Re-DG-User-Experience-sakai-nakamura-KERN-934-Was-Planning-for-W-C-2010-08-16-td5455405.html#a5544046
[Building Sakai] Tomcat x 2
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Tomcat-x-2-td5543316.html#a5543316
[Building Sakai] graphical display of polls tool results
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-graphical-display-of-polls-tool-results-td5542008.html#a5542008
[Building Sakai] New Sakai Build
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-New-Sakai-Build-td5542472.html#a5542472
[Building Sakai] Site Info Add Participants, role names not sorted in 2.6.2
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Site-Info-Add-Participants-role-names-not-sorted-in-2-6-2-td5540498.html#a5540498
[Building Sakai] Mneme on sakai 2.7.0
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Mneme-on-sakai-2-7-0-td5541964.html#a5541984
[Building Sakai] Restoring deleted files from drop box
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Restoring-deleted-files-from-drop-box-td5540047.html#a5540047
[Building Sakai] Jira upgrade: 3.13.2 -> 4.1.2
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Jira-upgrade-3-13-2-4-1-2-td5539597.html#a5539597
[Building Sakai] LDAP Account information mapping with Sakai
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-LDAP-Account-information-mapping-with-Sakai-td5541386.html#a5541386
[Building Sakai] Site Info Add Participants, role names not sorted in 2.6.2
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Site-Info-Add-Participants-role-names-not-sorted-in-2-6-2-td5540498.html#a5540498
[Building Sakai] Had a possible strange tool issue resulting in a DoS
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Had-a-possible-strange-tool-issue-resulting-in-a-DoS-td5540022.html#a5540022
[Building Sakai] [WG: Accessibility] Proposed PDA Portal Wording
Change - SAK-19061
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Proposed-PDA-Portal-Wording-Change-SAK-19061-td5534890.html#a5534890
[Building Sakai] Kernel and bug with en_DEBUG locale
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/WG-Sakai-QA-Kernel-and-bug-with-en-DEBUG-locale-td5537532.html#a5537532
[Building Sakai] T&Q Export not exporting questions in 2.7.0
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-T-Q-Export-not-exporting-questions-in-2-7-0-td5536359.html#a5536370
[Building Sakai] Sakai Build
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Sakai-Build-td5535067.html#a5535067
[DG: Teaching & Learning] Significant Changes - Pre-Announcement:
Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Significant-Changes-Pre-Announcement-Teaching-With-Sakai-Innovation-Award-td5544155.html#a5544155
[DG: Teaching & Learning] HEC Montreal and Sakai
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Portfolio-HEC-Montreal-and-Sakai-td5543833.html#a5543833
[Portfolio] Suggestions for XML/Oxygen training
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Portfolio-Suggestions-for-XML-Oxygen-training-td5543291.html#a5543360
[Portfolio] info on transitioning from TaskStream to Sakai
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Portfolio-info-on-transitioning-from-TaskStream-to-Sakai-td5528135.html#a5528135
[DG: User Experience] [DG: Teaching & Learning] micro-commentary use
case for gradable content in Sakai 3?
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/DG-User-Experience-micro-commentary-use-case-for-gradable-content-in-Sakai-3-td5523745.html#a5523745
[DG: User Experience] Proposal: There should be (a) reserved
super-user account(s)
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/DG-User-Experience-Proposal-There-should-be-a-reserved-super-user-account-s-td5488093.html#a5488093
[Using Sakai] University of Montreal is leaving Sakai
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Using-Sakai-University-of-Montreal-is-leaving-Sakai-td5540292.html#a5542597
[Using Sakai] Assignment : error at bulk upload on nightly build
http://sakai-project-mail-list-archives.1343168.n2.nabble.com/Building-Sakai-Assignment-error-at-bulk-upload-on-nightly-build-td5518745.html#a5518745
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10. Events
Sakai 2011 Conference
June 14 - 16, 2011
Ramada Hotel Berlin -- Alexanderplatz
Berlin, Germany
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