[Announcements] Sakai Newsletter November 22, 2012
Margaret Wagner
mwagner at umich.edu
Wed Nov 21 11:15:25 PST 2012
Sakai Newsletter
November 22, 2012
1. Sakai CLE 2.9.0 Released
2. First Apereo Conference - 2013 Volunteers Needed!
3. EuroSakai Conference Reminder
4. Announcing Project Keitai
5. iSyllabus Code Contributed by UVa
6. Sakai OAE Progress Update
7. Sakai OAE 1.4.3 Maintenance Release Now Available
8. Sakai Foundation Appoints Charles Leonhardt Treasurer
9. Result of Sakai and Jasig Merger Vote
10. Seeking Sakai Administrator for Private University in North Carolina
11. Events
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1. Sakai CLE 2.9.0 Released
Dear All,
I am pleased to announce, on behalf of the community, the release of Sakai
CLE 2.9.0.
The Sakai CLE 2.9.0 builds on previous releases by refining and stabilizing
the 2.x feature set. It offers dozens of new features and improvements to
key areas like accessibility, internationalization, performance, and
security.
Sakai CLE 2.9.0 sports a new updated interface with a beautiful new skin
and improved efficiency for users, for example by reducing the number of
mouse clicks on common operations in the portal. The Lessons tool, formerly
known as Lesson Builder, is now a core Sakai tool. Many new features have
been added and detailed release notes are posted at:
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+CLE+2.9+release+notes
Thanks to all in the worldwide community for your contribution to the
development, testing, and documenting of the release.
More technical information about the release will be posted to the Sakai
development email groups.
Best regards,
Neal Caidin
Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org
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2. First Apereo Conference - 2013 Volunteers Needed!
The First Apereo Conference will take place in San Diego, California
between Monday June 3rd and Thursday June 6th.
Following the successful organization of the Jasig-Sakai 2012 Conference,
we are asking for volunteers for two committees to help plan the event.
Program Committee Chair, Alan Regan, Pepperdine University
- Will advise and assist organize on the development of the conference
program, specifying content and marking submissions.
Planning Committee Chair, Jim Helwig, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Will advise and assist organize conference logistics, including social
activities.
We want the conference to represent the best traditions and experience of
Sakai and Jasig. Please consider volunteering!
Best,
Ian Dolphin
Executive Director, Sakai Foundation
iandolphin at sakaifoundation.org
Patty Gertz
Interim Executive Director, Jasig
ed at jasig.org
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3. EuroSakai Conference Reminder
The 2013 EuroSakai Conference, in association with ESUP and Jasig, will be
held in Paris between January 28th and 30th. The conference will be hosted
by University P.M. Curie (UPMC-Sorbonne Universités) at the Jussieu Campus.
An ESUP Days event will follow on January 31st, at University
Paris-Descartes - only 900m from the EuroSakai event.
The website is available at:
http://www.congres.upmc.fr/sakai2013
The call for papers for the 2013 European Sakai and Jasig Conference, held
in conjunction with ESUP Days, is now available at:
http://www.congres.upmc.fr/sakai2013/call-for-papers.html
The deadline for submissions is December 7th.
See you in Paris!
Best,
Ian Dolphin
iandolphin at sakaifoundation.org
+44 7737 862863
Twitter: d iandolphin24
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4. Announcing Project Keitai
The proposal to develop a mobilized Sakai is now an official project of the
Sakai Foundation. A steering committee made up of representatives from the
University of Florida, Leaning Forward Technology LLC, University of Notre
Dame, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and Oxford University
will provide oversight for the project.
With funding provided by the University of Florida, the mobile project
targets four goals: 1) To improve Entity Broker support for communication
and integration across all Sakai CLE tools as well as communication to and
from external services, especially mobile devices; 2) To enhance Core and
selected Contrib tools to enable effective use of the Entity Broker for
full functionality of Sakai on mobile devices of all kinds; 3) To
contribute all code developed under this project to Sakai 2.10 with
possible back-porting to 2.9; 4) To evaluate and maintain submitted code
in future CLE point releases (2.11+).
Programming work will be contracted through Flying Kite, LLC with a target
date of Summer 2013 for completion of the programming and submission of all
code into community repositories.
For more information go to:
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/MOBILE/Home or contact Doug
Johnson, wanderer at ufl.edu
Regards,
Ian Dolphin
Executive Director, Sakai Foundation
iandolphin at sakaifoundation.org
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5. iSyllabus Code Contributed by UVa
The University of Virginia has contributed code for "iSyllabus linking and
link migration," in https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22283.
We presented this topic at the 2012 Sakai/Jasig Conference in Atlanta:
https://wiki.jasig.org/display/JCON/2012-06-13+Link+Migration%3A+UVa%27s+Solution+to+Re-Using+Site+Content
Trisha Gordon
UVaCollab User Support Manager
University of Virginia
psg3a at virginia.edu
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6. Sakai OAE Progress Update
Hi everyone, The second Sakai OAE progress update report can be found at
[1]. It includes performance testing results, updates on UI integration,
widget development, search, file storage, preview generation, etc., as well
as development goals between now and the end of the year. The team has also
set up a development blog at [2], which contains a copy of the progress
report. In the coming weeks, you'll be able to find smaller and more
frequent updates on there about search, performance testing, cost
calculations, etc.
[1]
https://oae-community.sakaiproject.org/p/n43R3MIaa/Sakai%20OAE%20Progress%20Report.pdf
[2] http://oae.sakaiproject.org/
Kind regards,
Nicolaas Matthijs
nicolaas.matthijs at caret.cam.ac.uk
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7. Sakai OAE 1.4.3 Maintenance Release Now Available
The Sakai Community is pleased to announce the release of the Sakai OAE
version 1.4.3.
RELEASE DATE: 30 October 2012
WHAT'S NEW
Sakai OAE 1.4.3 is a tightly scoped maintenance release that provides a new
Russian translation and updates to the existing French translation of the
UI. It has been produced at the request of piloting institutions in both
France and Russia. Other than the translation and Maven pom version
changes, it is indistinguishable from OAE 1.4.2.
DOWNLOADS
OAE 1.4.3 Web Start (one-click download/run for Demos):
http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/oae/1.4.3/webstart/sakaioae.jnlp
If you previously sampled our web start be sure to check your /home
directory and remove the /sling folder and, if desired, the /store folder
if you previously added content and want to start fresh.
Users of Apple OSX Mountain Lion have reported start up issues when using
the webstart. For a workaround, review the Stackoverflow thread:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11136805/java-applet-with-self-signed-certificate-on-os-x-mountain-lion
OAE 1.4.3 Binary (org.sakaiproject.nakamura.app-1.4.3.jar)
Anthony Whyte
arwhyte at umich.edu
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8. Sakai Foundation Appoints Charles Leonhardt Treasurer
The Sakai Foundation is pleased to announce the results of the search for a
new Foundation Treasurer. Charles F. Leonhardt, Chief Technology Officer at
Georgetown University, was appointed to the position at the October meeting
of the Foundation Board. The Foundation Treasurer plays a critical role
both in monitoring financial performance, and informing strategic
priorities. Ian Dolphin, Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation said:
"The Sakai Foundation and community is fortunate to have someone of Mr.
Leonhardt's breadth and depth of experience joining us in this role. I look
forward to working with him to further strengthen strategic approaches not
only to our financial health, but the further development of the Sakai
community as a whole."
Charles Leonhardt said: "The Sakai Foundation has truly been a leader in
collaborative development of successful open source solutions for
education. I'm very pleased to work with Ian and the foundation's board to
continue the exciting work ahead of us".
Mr. Leonhardt succeeds Jim Farmer, Foundation Treasurer 2010-2012, and Seth
Theriault, of Columbia University, who has served in an interim role for
several months. "Organizations such as Sakai depend very much on the
commitment of volunteer effort," added Ian Dolphin. "We offer our profound
thanks for those who have contributed so much to the community in the past."
Charles F. Leonhardt - Profile
Charles F. Leonhardt is the Chief Technology Officer at Georgetown. He
serves as primary advisor to the Vice President for Information Services
and CIO, UIS staff and the University administration, on technology issues.
His work centers around strategic and tactical planning for key enterprise
initiatives, technology architecture, business continuity readiness, and
emerging technologies. A recent successful project was the initial rollout
of Georgetown Mobile to serve the University community.
Mr. Leonhardt has primary responsibility for Georgetown's R&D activities in
Federated Authentication and Authorization. This includes serving as the
Campus Executive for InCommon and providing leadership and support for the
Common Identity and Trust Collaborative, the core Shibboleth development
team, and the Thebes Middleware Consortium. Charlie led the successful
completion of middleware development and implementation for Project
Sentinel, a major bioinformatics project sponsored by the National Library
of Medicine.
In prior roles at Georgetown, Charlie created a flexible group to build and
support Scholarly Information Services that directly support teaching,
learning, and research. The Scholarly Systems Group integrates course
management, interactive media, synchronous collaboration, lecture capture,
and administrative functions into a rich and flexible online platform to
support teaching and learning. Charlie has also worked to expand the
University's "directory-driven" computing strategy in creating and managing
the Information Access (IA) group. IA built new customer-enabling services
including the Enterprise Data Warehouse, Access+ and MyAccess (personalized
web-based access to Georgetown's core business systems), an enterprise
identity management system (NetID), and an e-commerce infrastructure.
Mr. Leonhardt is Georgetown's primary liaison to technical organizations.
He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the
Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC) and co-chairs PESC’s
Enterprise Authentication and Authorization (EA2) Working Group. He is
immediate past Coordinator of the Common Solutions Group (CSG) and a member
of the CSG Steering Committee. He actively participates in the activities
and meetings of CSG, PESC, Educause, Internet2, InCommon, the IMS Global
Learning Consortium, Gartner Group, the ShareStream Product Advisory Board,
Sakai/JA-SIG, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the
Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities Conference on IT Management
(AJCU-CITM). He served as a member of the Mellon Foundation planning grant
team, which validated and proposed the development of the Kuali Student
Services System.
Mr. Leonhardt received the Distinguished Service Award from PESC in 2011
and the Award for Exemplary Practices in Information Technology Solutions
from Educause in 2000.
Charlie earned an M.S. in Information Systems from American University and
a Bachelor's in Economics and Philosophy from Georgetown. He currently
teaches as an Adjunct Professor in the Master’s in Technology Management
program at Georgetown.
Ian Dolphin
Executive Director, Sakai Foundation
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9. Result of Sakai and Jasig Merger Vote
I would like to report the results of the recent ballots on the merger of
the Sakai Foundation and Jasig.
Sakai
58 Members voted for the merger, 3 voted against, and 3 abstained. 13
Members did not register a vote.
Jasig
40 Members voted for the merger, 1 voted against, and 1 abstained. 5
Members did not register a vote
Thanks to organisational representatives in both organisations who took the
time to appreciate the issues and cast their vote. Minutes of the
teleconferences, which took place last week, together with a voting record,
will be made available shortly.
We will now proceed with the remaining legal steps to bring the two
organisations together as the Apereo Foundation. Further announcements of
progress will be made in coming weeks.
Regards,
Ian Dolphin
Executive Director, Sakai Foundation
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10. Job Opening: Sakai Administrator for Private University in North
Carolina
Sakai Administrator will be responsible for administering, configuring and
managing the university Sakai application.
Key Functions:
- Responsible for the administration, maintenance, operational support, and
configuration management of university Sakai applications.
- Works closely with internal and external customers to serve as Sakai
expert.
Required Skills:
- Bachelor's degree
- Advanced knowledge of and experience with higher education applications,
including but not limited to the following:
---- Working knowledge of LINUX/UNIX and Windows operating systems.
---- Oracle 11 database development
Qualified candidates please send resume in Word to maclean at recruitwise.jobs.
Claire Pesek Waiksnoris
Account Executive
claire at recruitwise.jobs
maclean at recruitwise.jobs
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11. Events
First Apereo Conference - 2013
June 3 - 6, 2013
San Diego, California
2013 EuroSakai Conference
In association with ESUP and Jasig
Jussieu Campus, University P.M. Curie (UPMC-Sorbonne Universités)
Paris, France
January 28 - 30
January 30 - ESUP Days at University Paris-Descartes
http://www.esup-portail.org/display/ESUP/Bienvenue+sur+le+site+du+consortium+ESUP-Portail+%21
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