[Building Sakai] Leadership for Morpheus Effort

[Neal Caidin]

Mark your calendars.

The Morpheus Webinar is Wednesday, April 29 at noon Eastern/ 4 pm GMT / 5
pm BST.

Details at :

https://www.apereo.org/content/2015-webinar-series


On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Charles Severance <csev at umich.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I want to give you a quick update on the Morpheus project.   As you all
> know, the iframe-free responsive Morpheus portal is the default and only
> portal in the current trunk of Sakai (i.e. Sakai-11).  This is a tremendous
> step forward and will give Sakai-11 the best LMS user experience in the
> industry.
>
> We owe a great debt of gratitude to Mark Reilly and New York University
> for the leadership and significant resources that have been dedicated to
> this effort for well over a year.
>
> But many of you might already know that Mark Reilly has left NYU and is no
> longer working in the edtech industry.  He remains on this list (Hi Mark!)
> but will not have time to be our leader to continue to improve and evolve
> Morpheus and the rest of the Sakai tools to become responsive across the
> board.
>
> We are fortunate to already have new leadership that is ready to pick up
> where Mark left us and take us to the next level.   While we all are
> responsible for moving the Sakai user experience forward together it is
> especially important to have clear leadership in the areas of UI/UX that
> can listen to all the ideas in the community and find a "middle path"
> through all of those ideas and produce a consistent, beautiful, and
> functional user experience.
>
> These are the folks who have volunteered to make a significant long term
> effort for Morpheus and the rest of the UI/UX of Sakai:
>
> Eduardo Rey Jara (University of Murcia)
> Juan Jose Merono Sanchez  (University of Murcia)
>
> Udaya Ghattamaneni (Marist)
> Antoni Sousa (Marist)
>
> There are already plans for a webinar on Morpheus and work / ideas are
> already in process for evolving Morpheus over the next month or so.
>
> So join me in welcoming our new UI/UX leadership.
>
> Charles Severance
> Sakai PMC Chair
>
>
>
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