[Using Sakai] [Building Sakai] Sakai Portal 2.9 RoadMap and Sakai Course at University of Michigan

[Mathieu Plourde]

Hi Chuck,

I have some questions for you and the other folks on-list:

1) How many more years do institutions expect to run Sakai CLE (2.x)?

At Delaware, we are not eager to move to OAE (3.x) just yet. In fact, we're
probably going to be running Sakai CLE for at least another 3 to 4 years in
one shape or another (hybrid).

2) How are we gathering and addressing requirements coming from the
community?

2.1) I tend to create Jira tickets to request new features or suggest
improvements, but is the community even looking at those? (I'm not talking
bug-reporting here, but process changes and new tools or features)

2.2) Are there better ways to suggest improvements to the Sakai CLE?

2.3) Is it even worth suggesting improvements to Sakai CLE, or is the
developer community so tied-up in OAE developing and back-porting that no
extra work will be included anyway?

I'm asking these questions because we are about to create a Sakai Faculty
Advisory Committee that would look at Sakai and identify pain points and
potential improvements, but if we're not using the right channels or if no
one is listening, then we're just going to be wasting our time.

Any thoughts?

Mathieu
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Mathieu Plourde, MBA
Project Leader, LMS/Instructional Designer
IT-Client Support & Services
mathieu at udel.edu
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On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:08 PM, csev <csev at umich.edu> wrote:

> Hello all and happy new year - I just put up some slides that describe some
> of my rough plans for some improvements to the Sakai portal for Sakai 2.9.
>  We have 9 months before code freeze so I want to take advantage of that
> time and make some real UI improvements.   Here are some PowerPoint Slides
> that describe my effort around the portal for 2.9
>
> http://www.slideshare.net/csev/sakai-29-portal-road-map-plans
>
> At a high level, my plan is to take design elements from Sakai OAE and
> back-port them to Sakai CLE as well as integrate some more social features
> from Profile into the surrounding navigation and provide better integration
> for tools like Lesson builder into the portal.  he above slides give some
> ideas as to where this is going.
>
> Also, I am teaching a course at University of Michigan on Open Source
> Software Development that will focus on Sakai (CLE and OAE) and help me firm
> up and then execute this portal plan.   My class will be a combination of
> technical people and designers.   We will do all the design work in the open
> and on Sakai lists and in JIRA/Confluence so the community will be as
> involved as it wants to be.
>
> http://www.dr-chuck.com/si791-sak/
>
> I am working closely with Steve Swinsberg, Chuck Hedrick, Aaron Zeckowski,
> Adrian Fish, Gonzalo Silverio, and others so the overall intent of my course
> is to add resources to the community rather than start an isolated effort.
>  Your participation is welcome.
>
> The above course URL tells you how to join the course at Michigan in
> CTools.  The course will also use Edmodo (www.edmodo.com) as its LMS in
> addition to Sakai in order to expand our horizons a bit.  You can also
> become a member of our Edmodo site with instructions within Sakai.
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
> /Chuck
>
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