[Announcements] Sakai Newsletter May 10, 2012

[Margaret Wagner]

Sakai Newsletter


May 10, 2012

1. The Sakai-Jasig Conference Program

2. Sakai OAE est Disponible en Français

3. Announcing our 2012 Sakai Fellows

4. AuSakai 2012 18 - 19 September

5. LMS (Sakai) System Support Position at Pomona College

6. Events


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1. The Sakai-Jasig Conference Program

Take a look at the exciting program for the first ever Sakai-Jasig
Conference -- taking place between the 10th and 15th of June in Atlanta,
Georgia -- over at:

http://bit.ly/jasigsakai12program (full program listing)

or

http://bit.ly/jasigsakai12matrix (schedule view)

Tracks include Teaching, Learning, Portfolios and Research, Leadership and
Future Directions, Getting Started, Awareness and Advocacy, Design and
Development, Deployment and Integration, Expanded Solutions and Technical
Management. There will be many opportunities to learn and share throughout
the week. Please note that this program may be subject to minor
modification in coming weeks.

More information about the conference, including links to registration, is
available at:

http://www.jasig.org/jasig-sakai-conference-2012

Join us in Atlanta!

Regards,

Ian Dolphin Executive
Director, Sakai Foundation
iandolphin at sakaifoundation.org


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2. Sakai OAE est Disponible en Français

Hey everyone,

I want to bring to your attention that Sakai OAE is now available in French
[1].All this was made possible by a big contribution [2] by Frederic
Dooremont (frederic.dooremont at univ-littoral.fr) from l'Université du
Littoral Côte d'Opale [3] in Dunkirk.

Merci Frederic,

Christian Vueringsvueringschristian at gmail.com

[1] http://cl.ly/GKwv (screenshot)
[2]
https://github.com/sakaiproject/3akai-ux/commit/12645a1c3f10460be2bbd83047bb391a93873dcc
[3] http://www.univ-littoral.fr/


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3. Announcing our 2012 Sakai Fellows

A great deal of the work of Sakai relies on the contributions of community
members -- both institutions and individuals. Every year we celebrate the
individuals who have made an exceptional contribution to the community in a
variety of areas by recognizing them as Sakai Fellows. The contribution
made by Fellows ranges from sharing best practice in learning, teaching or
research, technical development and design, to community coordination. The
Fellows Programme provides a modest financial allowance to Fellows to help
offset the cost of their Sakai-related activity.  It's our way of
recognizing, encouraging, and spreading good practice.

On behalf of the Sakai Fellows Selection Committee I am happy to announce
the Sakai Fellows for 2012.  Six Fellows were selected by the committee.
 Please join me in congratulating each of them!

Ian Dolphin
Executive Director, Sakai Foundation
iandolphin at sakaifoundation.org

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Lucy Appert (New York University)

Lucy Appert has been a member of the Sakai Community since 2008, when she
and Bob Squillace developed a Sakai CLE-based portfolio for their liberal
arts program at New York University that was funded by a National Endowment
for the Humanities grant.  She subsequently became the co-chair of NYU's
Sakai/ATLAS Working Group, a joint faculty and IT task force formed to
develop Sakai OAE at NYU.

Lucy has also been the organizer of the User Reference Group (URG) for the
Sakai OAE Project since 2010, a member of the Sakai OAE Steering Group, and
an active volunteer on the Sakai Conference Program Committee. Within the
Sakai Community, NYU and larger academic communities, she has worked to
raise faculty awareness of and support for the new direction in academic
technology represented by Sakai OAE.

Lucy is the Director of Educational Technology in the Liberal Studies
Program at NYU, where she works with the program's more than 2000 students
and 130 faculty members in New York, London, Paris, Shanghai, and Florence
on creative instructional technology solutions. She holds a PhD in 17th &
18th c. British literature and has twenty years of teaching experience,
twelve of them at NYU.


Chris Maurer (Indiana University)

Chris has authored over 900 code commits in support of Sakai CLE
development since joining the project in 2004.  Early on he was involved
primarily with the Portfolio community (OSP); his responsibilities now
include serving as the lead developer for Oncourse, Indiana University's
branded installation of Sakai.

Chris is also a member of the Sakai Community's Infrastructure Group and is
the lead systems administrator for the Sakai CLE Subversion code repository
(source.sakaiproject.org), nightly build server (nightly2.sakaiproject.org)
and qa3-us quality assurance server instance (qa3-us.sakaiproject.org).

Chris is a Principal Systems Analyst at Indiana University, where he has
worked for 8+ years. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Rose-Hulman
Institute of Technology.


Sam Ottenhoff (Longsight Group)

Sam filed his first Sakai JIRA ticket over seven years ago (SAK-93) and has
contributed to Sakai CLE development and QA ever since.  He was a member of
Megan May's QA group for the Sakai CLE 2.6 release and for the 2.7 series
provided QA support as well as code patches.  In 2010 he joined the
maintenance team and also the release management work group, helping triage
bug tickets and serving as a 2.8.x branch manager.  He was elected to the
Sakai CLE Technical Coordination Committee in September 2011 and currently
serves as release manager for the upcoming CLE 2.9 release.

Sam is a founding partner of The Longsight Group, a company created to
focus on supporting open-source applications for higher-ed.  Sam graduated
from Kenyon College with a BA in History and worked on an early generation
of campus web applications.  After college, Sam worked in New York City for
interactive learning company ACTV and then as an educational technologist
at Teachers College, Columbia University.


Sam Peck (Sakai OAE project)

Sam joined the Sakai Community in 2009 while working for a London-based
user experience firm.  As the creative lead of the Sakai OAE design team,
his work on interface and interaction design helps guide OAE's
user-centered, design-led development activities.

Sam is dedicated to ensuring that the Sakai OAE experience helps its users
grow and develop beyond what the traditional LMS can offer.  His remit is
to provide a user-friendly experience that promotes academic networking,
group collaboration and content creation, curation, discovery and sharing
-- all informed by the needs of educators, learners and researchers.

Sam has been a User Experience Consultant for over 5 years and a Creative
Director, Usability Consultant, Art Director and Designer for interfaces,
web, applications, devices and various platforms for over 10 years.  He has
worked with both start-ups and large corporations and government agencies
such as Billabong, eHarmony, IBM, Vodafone, Deutsche Bank, UK National
Heath Services, UK National Lottery and the UK Government (to name a few).


Lance Speelmon (rSmart)

Lance is a longtime Sakai contributor who has worked on both the CLE and
the OAE.  His recent development work includes leveraging IMS BasicLTI to
provide "hybrid" integration points between the OAE and CLE sites and
tools.  He also currently serves as a member of the OAE Technical Reference
Group.

His association with Sakai actually pre-dates the project's Mellon
Foundation grant (2003).  While at Indiana University he worked with
Stanford on the Navigo project (Samigo's predecessor) and later joined the
CLE architecture team headed by Chuck Severance and Glenn Golden.  He has
served as track lead on a number of Sakai Conference Committees and was
also seconded to the Sakai Foundation as a staff member during 2009-2010.

Lance now works for rSmart where he leads Sakai OAE and CLE development
efforts.  He particularly focused on developing Sakai OAE agile processes,
which rSmart is helping to mature and bring to market.  rSmart has
contributed new capabilities and bug fixes to OAE as well as an automation
suite around configuration, deployment, QA, and load testing.

Lance writes that "Sakai has been a game changer for me, and I am very
happy to be able to remain at the service of the community.  I look forward
to continued involvement with the community in as many capacities as I can
muster.  It is an honor to be selected as a Sakai Fellow. I am humbled."


Lynn Ward (Indiana University)

Lynn Ward has been actively involved with Sakai and Open Source Portfolio
Communities since 2006, first as an instructional design and technology
consultant with the IUPUI Center for Teaching and learning and more
recently as a business analyst with the teaching and learning division of
University Information Technology Services at Indiana University.  In her
current position she provides functional leadership for Oncourse CLE, IU's
local instance of Sakai.

Lynn is an active contributor to several Sakai working groups, including
the Sakai portfolio community, the portfolio visioning group and the
teaching and learning capabilities design lenses group.  Last year she
helped establish the Samigo working group, which she co-facilitates with
colleagues from Stanford, and in January of 2012 she worked with Jon Hays
(UC Berkeley) and Robert Squillace (NYU) to lay the groundwork for the
"Teaching and Learning with OAE", which now meets on weekly basis.

She also represents the portfolio community on the OAE User Reference Group
and leads an OAE User Needs Group at Indiana University.  She has given
presentations about Sakai CLE, OSP, and OAE at the annual Sakai Conference,
the annual meeting of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, (ELI), the annual
conference of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD)
Network, the Assessment Institute, and the annual conference of the
Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning
(AAEEBL).

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2012 Selection Committee

Nate Angell (Fellow 2010)
Alan Berg (Fellow 2008)
David Goodrum (Fellow 2010)
David Horwitz (Fellow 2008, 2010)
Beth Kirschner (Fellow 2008)
Nico Matthijs (Fellow 2009)
Megan May (Fellow 2011)
Janice Smith (Fellow 2009)
Anthony Whyte, chair


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4. AuSakai 2012 18 - 19 September

The AuSakai 2012 conference will be held on 18 - 19 September 2012 on the
Bathurst Campus, NSW, Australia and hosted by Charles Sturt University. The
conference will finish around 3pm on 19 September 2012.

The conference website is www.ausakai2012.com.au .

The theme for the AuSakai 2012 conference is "Sakai Futures: Openness and
Innovation!" The theme is intended to be broad enough to encourage interest
in people from the academic and wide-ranging administrative areas
supporting Sakai.

AuSakai 2012 will be comprised of the following three streams:
1. Learning and Teaching
2. Technical & Development
3. Research & Collaboration

The international keynote speakers are

-  Dr. Lucy Appert, an academic and also Director of Educational
Technology, New York University. Lucy is further the chair of the Sakai
Open Academic Environment user reference group.

-  Ian Dolphin, Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation.

Key Dates and Pricing:
Conference -- 18-19 September
Early Bird registration -- $180 closes Friday 17 August
Standard Registration -- $200 from 18 August - 18 September
The closing date for submission of proposals is 23 July.

Note the accommodation options listed on the home page as well as on the
online registration form.

We hope that you will be able to present/attend - see you at
www.ausakai2012.com.au!

Regards,

Philip Uys

Chair of AuSakai 2012 Organising Committee
Director, Strategic Learning and Teaching Innovation, and mLearning sponsor
Division of Learning and Teaching Services
Charles Sturt University
puys at csu.edu.au


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5. LMS (Sakai) System Support Position at Pomona College

Regular, full-time, 12-month position
Salary: Dependent upon qualifications

Pomona College is looking for a talented individual to join our
service-oriented department of Information Technology Services as a Senior
Academic Technology Specialist: Learning Management Systems. This position
has primary responsibility for the support and administration of the
Learning Management System (LMS) used by the member institutions of the
Claremont University Consortium (currently Sakai). This position provides
software application systems administration and systems administration
services focused on the operation, maintenance and improvement of the
consortial Learning Management System; provides administrative support for
the Learning Management System (LMS), mostly focused on tier 3 level
support; works with the LMS vendor as technical liaison to maintain the LMS
and manage the upgrade/patch process; plans and implements tools to monitor
production systems in support of LMS applications and services; performs
performance tuning and troubleshooting of the LMS system; builds and
maintains test systems to support application evaluation, troubleshooting
and testing; collects and assesses requirements and translates them into
technical implementation plans; documents server topographies, information
systems, process flows, data flows for the LMS system; designs and develops
automated approaches to systems management and maintenance.

The ideal candidate will have: a Bachelor's degree, a minimum of 4 years in
technical system support responsibilities in a higher education
environment; a minimum of 2 years experience with the administration and
support of a learning management system (Sakai preferred); an employment
history or educational background that reflects proficiency with various
software systems including LINUX, SQL and Apache; extensive professional
experience with Java and/or Javascript best practices and professional
experience developing web applications with Java and related technologies;
exemplary communication and interpersonal skills that enable effective
leadership, team membership and proactive initiative.

Review of applications began 15 May 2012 and the position will remain open
until filled. Please send cover letter, résumé, salary history, and list of
references to Pomona College, Attn: Human Resources, 150 E. Eighth St.
Claremont, CA 91711. Documents may also be submitted via email
atstaffjobs at pomona.edu or by fax at (909) 607-1726.

Mary McMahon
Director of Instructional Services
Pomona College ITS
mary.mcmahon at pomona.edu


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6. Events

Jasig/Sakai Annual Conference
Sunday, June 10 - Friday, June 15, 2012
Supplementary half-day Jasig and Sakai Seminars on Sunday, June 10
Westin Peachtree Plaza
Atlanta, Georgia
http://www.jasig.org/jasig-sakai-conference-2012

AuSakai 2012
18 - 19 September
Bathurst Campus NSW, Australia
Charles Sturt University
www.ausakai2012.com.au

I Congreso Iberoamericano de Sakai
16th and 18th October, 2012
Rio de Janeiro
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