[cle-release-team] FW: OSP 2.6 help and beyond

Tue Mar 6 07:51:23 PST 2012

OSP has help files? :)

I wonder if this is a tool that Alan/Rebecca would be interested in
updating? It looks like the sakai help/documentation effort gets pretty
good attendance? It doesn't look like any people on this list make those
calls.

https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/ESUP/Help+Files+2.9+Content+Project

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:39 AM, May, Megan Marie <mmmay at indiana.edu> wrote:

> Hey Team,
>      *This* is the email I meant to forward.   Can we talk about this on
> Thursdays call?
>
> Megan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ward, Lynn E.
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 10:09 AM
> To: May, Megan Marie
> Cc: Bolte, Jonathan M; Jan Smith; Venstra, Elizabeth; Stephen Marquard
> Subject: Re: OSP 2.6 help and beyond
>
> Hi Megan,
>
> A while back, the OSP community made a concerted effort to update the help
> files for the OSP tools.  We got started before 2.7 was released, so they
> files are current as of 2.6.  The help files that are currently distributed
> with 2.8 and 2.9 are much older---really only accurate as of OSP 2.2.
>  Elizabeth Venstra has updated the Sakai KB with the newer help but some
> development work is needed to get them added to the 2.7, 2.8, and
> 2.9 builds.  Stephen Marquard normally does this work, but he doesn't have
> the time and suggested that we take the issue to the TCC.  Can you get this
> item on a TCC agenda and find out whether someone can merge the updated
> help files into these releases.  Stephen's note below indicates where to
> lcate the synchronization scripts.  Let me know if you need additional
> information.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Lynn (and the OSP community and IU KB team)
>
> ==========================
>
> Lynn Ward, Principal Systems Analyst
> Instructional Technology Systems and Services University Information
> Technology Services <http://uits.iu.edu/> Indiana University Information
> Technology and Communications Complex (IT 342J)
> 535 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202
> Phone: 317-278-5713  E-mail: leward at iupui.edu
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 3/6/12 2:25 AM, "Stephen Marquard" <stephen.marquard at uct.ac.za> wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Unfortunately I haven't had the time assist with this for the last
> >while, and as I am currently filling the Director role in our
> >department while we await the appointment of a new one, I'm unlikely to
> >have time in the near or medium future.
> >
> >I'd suggest that you ask the Sakai TCC to identify someone else who can
> >do this work. The scripts used for synchronization between the IU KB
> >and Sakai svn are all checked in to:
> >
> >https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/help/trunk/util/
> >
> >I'm happy to answer technical questions on these to help someone else
> >get up to speed.
> >
> >Regards
> >Stephen
> >
> >Stephen Marquard, Acting Director
> >Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town
> >http://www.cet.uct.ac.za
> >Email/IM/XMPP: stephen.marquard at uct.ac.za
> >Phone: +27-21-650-5037 Cell: +27-83-500-5290
> >
> >
> >
> >>>> "janice.smith" <janice.smith at threecanoes.com> 3/5/2012 7:57 PM >>>
> >Thanks, Elizabeth, for reaching out to Stephen.
> >
> >Stephen, We in the OSP community really need an updated version of Help
> >for the portfolio tools to be available sooner rather than later. Can
> >you move this task up on your to-do list, please?
> >
> >Janice
> >
> >Janice A. Smith, Ph.D.
> >Three Canoes LLC
> >1204 Laurel Avenue
> >Saint Paul, Minnesota 55104, USA
> >651-642-9069, 207-841-6262 (cell)
> >janice.smith at threecanoes.com
> >http://threecanoes.com
> >
> >
> >
> >---- On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:57:18 -0600
> >Venstra&lt;erytting at indiana.edu&gt; wrote ----
> >
> >
> >  Janice,
> >
> > I emailed Stephen on October 27 asking him to implement the KB docs as
> >the OSP help files for 2.6 and later, and haven¹t heard back.  I¹m
> >copying him to see if he can shed any light on what¹s feasible at this
> >point.  Stephen?
> >
> > Best,
> > Elizabeth
> >
> >   From: janice.smith [mailto:janice.smith at threecanoes.com]
> > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 11:26 AM
> > To: Venstra, Elizabeth
> > Cc: Ward, Lynn E.
> > Subject: OSP 2.6 help and beyond
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  Hi Elizabeth,
> >
> > Can you please give us an update on the progress in integrating the
> >Help documents the OSP Community created for 2.6 into versions 2.6.
> >2.7, 2.8, and even 2.9?
> >
> > We are concerned that the large amount of work that went into this
> >project may not yet be usable. The 2.6 documents are not perfect for
> >use in more recent versions but they go a long way toward describing
> >the current status of the portfolio tools in Sakai.
> >
> > When we last communicated, you were working with Stephen Marquard to
> >get the documents loaded into the community KB.
> >
> > Can you please let us know the current status? We would like to notify
> >institutional users that the revised Help documents are available.
> >
> > Janice
> >
> > Janice A. Smith, Ph.D.
> > Three Canoes LLC
> > 1204 Laurel Avenue
> > Saint Paul, Minnesota 55104, USA
> > 651-642-9069, 207-841-6262 (cell)
> > janice.smith at threecanoes.com
> > http://threecanoes.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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