[Building Sakai] Any SAKAI09 interest in Google Apps / LMS integration issues?

[Ray Davis]

Thanks for bringing it up again, Nate. I was just talking to Oliver 
about this yesterday. Steve Githens was nice enough to talk with me 
about the experimental work he and Josh Baron did for Lance a while 
back. I suspect its starting point might have been around here:

http://www.nabble.com/Integrating-Sakai-with-Google-apps-td11376633.html

and I also suspect that Google's recent introduction of group 
provisioning might have been partly encouraged by their work:

http://code.google.com/apis/apps/gdata_provisioning_api_v2.0_developers_protocol.html

At the conference I asked Clay (very informally!) if he or Michael knew 
of any official Sakai Foundation efforts, but we've all been kinda busy 
since then. :)

This feels to me like one of those areas that Groups-n-Roles-3 should 
follow but can't actually drive. Unfortunately, I still don't have 
anyone in particular to follow. If Chuck Severance (of the IMS LTI) and 
Michael Feldstein (of the IMS LIS) happened to work at the same desk, 
I'd guess that would be a good spot.  :)

Best,
Ray

On 7/24/09 2:10 PM, Nate Angell wrote:
> Ray, I have interest in the Google Apps Education integration, but no 
> expertise to share. If you come to some conclusions, can you make sure 
> to share with me/this list?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> On Jul 6, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Ray Davis wrote:
> 
>> I suffer from a strong intuition that a number of issues we'll hit in
>> the Sakai 3 groups-and-roles project and with IMS LIS / Sakai
>> integration will overlap conceptually with Google Apps Education
>> Education integration. I've also been tasked to report back to
>> Internet2/EDUCAUSE on Google Apps authz integration abilities and needs.
>> But my home institution hasn't yet prioritized such an integration, and
>> I know a lot of community members are already exploring that territory:
>>
>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SAKDEV/Google+Integration
>>
>> Would any current domain experts be interested / able to fit in another
>> BOF at this week's conference? If not, would any be willing to chat with
>> me over beverage/food (my treat)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ray
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