[DG: Teaching & Learning] [DG: User Experience] [Management] Sakai Open Academic Environment confirmed as official Sakai Foundation project

[Ian Dolphin]

Bruce

I don't have a great deal to add to the points made by Michael F and David G. I've never known a product naming conversation provoke anything other than strong feelings, and the reason for sharing the name at this point was precisely to secure feedback from the community. Thanks for providing the honest feedback you have, and I'll certainly ensure it gets to both Project Steering Group and Board.

We're currently updating the OAE vision statement. That'll be available for community and public review and comment, together with screenshots and screencasts. When these become available, I'll make sure details are posted to the Announcement and other relevant lists.

Best

Ian

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On 29 Oct 2010, at 14:37, David Goodrum wrote:

> Hi Bruce,
> 
> You make an excellent point that each institution that adopts Sakai gives it it's own name. At IU we call Sakai 2 "Oncourse"; we haven't begun to think yet what we might call our future service. (Probably very few of our users even know or care that Sakai is our engine.) I am always amazed at the creativity and diversity of names as each installation finds some expression that fits their own academic culture. 
> 
> The sakaiproject.org site has consistently described the current Sakai offering as a "Collaboration and Learning Environment" (CLE).
> 
> As the steering group struggled to indicate something rather different, we had that original Sakai designation in the back of our minds. It leaves room again for that local creativity. 
> 
> 2 cents - David
> 
> On Oct 29, 2010, at 9:18 AM, "Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Adam Marshall
> <adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> I see the point but everybody knows there's a thing on the way code-named 'Sakai 3' - why bother undoing all the publicity that is already out there?
> 
> I agree totally with Bruce. Calling it "Sakai 3 - Open Academic Environment" would work for me.
> 
> And further, I find the OAE name cold, antiseptic, boring.
> Notwithstanding the awkwardness I previously noted, I really hope this
> is a code name that goes away.
> 
> To be clear, I have no pretense to believe that I could do any better.
> But if you all do revisit this again, at Miami, the team here did
> something that worked out pretty well I thought: we had a naming
> contest for our Sakai implementation and then voted on the finalists.
> The entire university community was free to submit suggestions, and to
> vote on the final name. The result of that process was actually pretty
> good: Niikha, a word that means "friend", from the Myaami language. So
> it's unique, evocative, catchy.
> 
> This could have the benefit of encouraging community participation
> from a wider sphere of actual users (students, faculty)*, and may
> result in a better outcome. So put up "an essence of OAE" page with a
> list of core principles, and maybe a few good screenshots, and ask
> your future users for they'd like to call it.
> 
> Bruce
> 
> * something I think the Sakai world needs to work on going forward
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