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

[Adrian Fish]

Did you know that the word 'sakai' in Malay is offensive and means 
'subservient' or 'slave'? I got told that a while ago when we were 
rolling out some services to Malaysia.

Cheers,

Adrian.

csev wrote:
> 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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Lancaster University
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