[Using Sakai] Sakai 2.8 - Which institutions have upgraded already?

[Jean-Francois Leveque]

Hi Alan,

Frederic Dooremont did an upgrade last Tuesday at Université du Littoral 
Côte d'Opale (another French institution using Sakai).

He had an issue with Announcements and I told him to use the fix in 
https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-20560 which is the solution for 
this issue.

He has not reported any other issue to me yet and I don't know if he's 
set his configuration to use CKEditor, but doubt he's tried anything 
experimental.

I'm working on both an infrastructure and version upgrade for Sakai for 
UPMC this summer. It's not over yet.

I'm not aware of any other issue. I don't think I'm gonna use CKEditor.

Cheers,

Jean-Francois Leveque
Australe CTO (local Sakai CLE)
University Pierre and Marie Curie
France

On 30/06/2011 19:39, Regan, Alan wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> At Pepperdine University, we'd like to adopt Sakai 2.8 for the fall,
> with an upgrade tentatively scheduled for early August.
>
> We understand that both Rutgers and Univ. of Delaware have adopted Sakai
> 2.8 already. Is anyone else currently running Sakai 2.8 in production? I
> see Mathieu Plourde's note about a Samigo issue, and wanted to get
> feedback from others about key items to be aware of.
>
> I'm also curious to know who is using the new CKEditor in 2.8 instead of
> the FCKEditor. The "pain" of MS Word junk in Forum posts, etc. is an
> issue for our community. We notice, though, that some features, like
> Melete, "Word Count" in the Forums tool, and some other features aren't
> working currently with the new CKEditor, but can be addressed. The new
> CKEditor seems to be a better choice for usability, accessibility, and
> the simple fact that it strips out the MS Word junk without forcing the
> user to know about and use the "Paste from Word" tool. So, is anyone
> using the experimental CKEditor option right now?
>
> For others, we are likely to trail blaze the Elluminate integration for
> Sakai 2.8, with the help of our hosting partner, Longsight. We'll share
> the outcome with Elluminate so other institutions can benefit in the future.
>
> Anyway… I'd love to hear experiences with Sakai 2.8 in production or
> roadmaps to adopt. Things to watch for, etc.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Alan Regan, MFA
>
> Manager, Technology and Learning
>
> Information Technology
>
> Pepperdine University
>
> (310) 506-6756