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

[Speelmon, Lance Day]

Small correction - it was Josh Ryan, not Josh Baron.  :) Best, L


Lance Speelmon
Scholarly Technologist

On Jul 24, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Ray Davis 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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