[Building Sakai] Why Sakai is so called? Any story behind?

[csev]

The Sakai project was named after this person:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Sakai
http://www.hotelsbycity.net/images/blog/hiroyuki_sakai.jpg

If you look in the WikiPedia entry at the bottom - you see the reference to the Sakai project.  :)

While you are pursuing fun details about Sakai to help you better understand it, you should take a look at this web site as well:

http://www.sakaiger.com/

It speaks of the legend and history of the Sakaiger.  Of course that brings up a question as to why there is no WikiPedia entry about the Sakaiger... Hmmm.

There is a "Sakaiger Dance" that is loosely based on a relative of the Sakaiger called the "Kenya Tiger":

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/kenya/

Hope this helps with your analysis :)

/Chuck

On Mar 22, 2010, at 10:20 AM, fstkhv at umac.mo wrote:

> 
> Dear Sakai Community,
> 
> I am writing to seek help in understanding why Sakai is so called. My
> colleagues and I are interested in knowing any story behind calling Sakai
> as it is. I am looking forward to hearing from you. Oh, indeed, we are
> planning to test-drive Sakai as our e-Learning platform to explore the
> practice of outcomes-based assessment in our general education program. We
> are also excited to observe so much new ideas in Sakai 3.0.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Kam
> 
> Kam H. Vat (Mr)
> University of Macau, Macau
> Center for Teaching and Learning Enhancement
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