[sakai-pmc] [Building Sakai] Sign up proposal for Sakai 10

[Steve Swinsburg]

Peter, would you be open to submitting this tool through the Apereo
incubation process?
http://www.apereo.org/content/incubation

That way we can ensure everything is in order.

Whilst I have worked on the tool considerably thanks to various
initiatives, and it is an extremely useful tool with some decent
integrations and features, a promotion to core is not a drop off point for
code to be maintained by others, as the core team of committers are
stretched as it is. If Yale was committed to its support for a while, that
would be ideal.

cheers,
Steve


On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Liu, Peter <peter.liu at yale.edu> wrote:

>  Proposal: Promote Sign-Up tool to Core status for Sakai 10
>
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> Rationale:
>
> The Yale Sign-up tool[1] <#142ed87ed329166f__ftn1> was initially
> introduced to the Sakai community at a BOF during the Dec. 2007 Sakai
> Conference in Newport[2] <#142ed87ed329166f__ftn2> after several months'
> consultation with partner schools on shared functional requirements.[3]<#142ed87ed329166f__ftn3> Sign-up
> was first offered as a contrib tool in 2008, and has since been broadly
> adopted by the worldwide community. Although we don't have data on the
> exact number of downloads, schools deploying the tool include Michigan,
> Indiana, Stanford, Yale, UNISA, Virginia, Texas, Florida, Oxford,
> Cambridge, UC Berkeley, Australian National, Charles Sturt, and Columbia.
> We also know that Asahi Net clients are actively using the tool.
>
>
>
> In last spring's 2013 Sakai Tool Survey[4] <#142ed87ed329166f__ftn4>, the
> Sign-up tool was the most actively used contrib tool, showing more than
> twice as much significant use (45% of the 70 schools polled) as all other
> contrib tools apart from Gradebook2 (35%).
>
>
>
> At Yale we have very limited resources to contribute to open-source
> community initiatives. The sole programmer for Sign-up, Peter Liu, finds it
> increasingly difficult to keep up with the community's requests for feature
> additions as the community grows larger.  Peter will continue to support
> maintenance and development of the tool however he can, and has recently
> put in considerable effort to add two new functions necessary for core
> inclusion (time zone conversion and "import from site"). But rather than
> risk being unable to maintain the foregoing level of tool support as usage
> increases, we hope that promotion of the tool to core will ensure its
> continued viability as a supported tool for the entire community.
>
>
>
> There is a growing programming community around the Sign-up tool, with
> Oxford, Michigan and rSmart contributing components of the code and
> supporting documentation in recent years.  Key Sakai partners such as Steve
> Swinsburg have offered assistance in promoting the tool to core.
>
>
>
> The tool follows Sakai CLE standards for localization and
> internationalization (we know of three English versions: American, British,
> Australian, and one Spanish version of the tool).  We are not aware of any
> security vulnerabilities. The tool has not yet been fully tested for
> accessibility compliance.
>
>
>
> We are in the process of getting the Apereo licensing agreement signed so
> that this promotion can be considered. Our local Sakai project lead (David
> Hirsch) has received verbal confirmation from Yale's Director of Technology
> Licensing that they have no objections to signing the standard Apereo CCLA.
>  ------------------------------
>
> [1] <#142ed87ed329166f__ftnref1>
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SIGNUP/Home
>
> [2] <#142ed87ed329166f__ftnref2>
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/CONF08/Sign-up+tool+BOF<https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/CONF08/Sign-up+tool+BOF?src=search>
>
> [3] <#142ed87ed329166f__ftnref3>
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SIGNUP/Requirements+Discussion
>
> [4] <#142ed87ed329166f__ftnref4>
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/TCC/Sakai+CLE+Tool+Survey+Results+Q2+2013
>
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>
> Special thanks for David Hirsh, who has worked on this proposal!
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------
>
> Peter Liu
>
> AITS, Yale University
>
> New Haven, CT
>
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