[Contrib: Evaluation System] Community Call for Sakai EVALSYS information session
Sean DeMonner
demonner at umich.edu
Thu May 7 13:16:06 PDT 2009
A big thank-you to everyone who responded so quickly to this meeting
request. It turns out the best meeting time is also the soonest, so I
grabbed it: Monday 5/11 9-11 am Eastern (GMT-0500). I've reserved the
Sakai Bridge 001 for this call:
Name: Sakai001 - Scheduled
Telephone: +1-812-856-7060
Internet:156.56.240.9
Conference Code: 348#
PIN: 72524#
Talk to you all then.
SMD.
On May 7, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Sean DeMonner wrote:
> All,
>
> As you may have heard, the University of Michigan suffered
> significant performance problems during our recent Winter 09 end-of-
> term evaluation period. Unfortunately, we eventually had to
> discontinue evaluation data collection in order to ensure
> availability of CTools (our Sakai instance) during finals week.
>
> We have made substantial progress in reviewing logs, operational
> timelines, system configuration settings, and some aspects of the
> code in the last couple of weeks. We have found a number of areas
> in CTools generally that can be improved from a performance
> perspective, and we have also found a few places in the EVALSYS
> tool itself that may need attention (some of these are U-M
> customizations and some are in EVALSYS trunk).
>
> I would like to convene a meeting of the EVALSYS community to
> review our findings to date and to solicit input on possible issues
> and proposed changes.
>
> Here is a draft agenda:
>
> 1. Background
> - What happened at U-M
>
> 2. Brief overview of initial findings
> - Sakai/CTools general issues; list of suspects
> - Possible EVALSYS issues
> - U-M customizations
> - Trunk code
>
> 3. Next Steps
>
> I have set up a Doodle meeting request here to gather availability
> responses from participants:
>
> http://www.doodle.com/c3u9mmwq5fe8bwvy
>
> Please indicate your availability to participate in a conference
> call in the near future. We are particularly interested in hearing
> from Aaron Z, and reps from other institutions running EVALSYS in
> Production.
>
> Thanks,
>
> SMD.
>
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> Sean DeMonner, IT Senior Project Manager, CTools Implementation Group
> Digital Media Commons @ The Duderstadt Center, U-M (734) 615-9765
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Sean DeMonner, IT Senior Project Manager, CTools Implementation Group
Digital Media Commons @ The Duderstadt Center, U-M (734) 615-9765
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