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

[csev]

On Jul 25, 2009, at 4:26 AM, Victor Maijer wrote:

> I know that Googlers and people from the Sakai community have been in
> contact with each other. I assume that this hasn't led to any (coding)
> activities. Maybe I wrong.
>
> I'm under the impression (from the Googlers) that Google wants to help
> Sakai to establish some kind of integration like they did with Moodle
> (they like Open Source).  All they need is some guidance from the
> Sakai Community.
>
> Victor
>
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Ray Davis<ray at media.berkeley.edu>  
> wrote:
>> 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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