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

[Mark Norton]

This explains a great deal.  All those late nights slaving over broken 
Sakai code....sigh.

Adrian Fish wrote:
> 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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