[Using Sakai] [Building Sakai] Benefits of 2.9 upgrade?

[Beth Kirschner]

Hi Keli,

That's great that your working on a "why upgrade to 2.9" list -- please do share what you have when you've finished! Bear in mind that the Dashboard project is a contrib tool, so not part of the core 2.9 release. Here's some additional reasons to upgrade to 2.9:

1) New features and functionality (e.g. Lesson Builder, NeoPortal, CkEditor)
2) Bug fixes and Security Fixes 
3) End-of-life for Java 1.5 (Sakai 2.9 supports Java 1.6, Java 1.5 is past EOL)
4) End-of-life for Tomcat 5.5 (Sakai 2.9 supports Tomcat 7, Tomcat 5.5 is end-of-life Sept 2012)

Thanks,
- Beth

On Feb 8, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Keli Sato Amann wrote:

> Thank you Chuck, this is great summary and gives us a sense of where things might be headed. We are excited about the nav improvements in the neoportal. Just saw some of the mockups for the dashboard and contacted Jim and Beth to learn more about that aspect of this project but if you wanted to comment offline or on a separate subject dashboard, would welcome that.
> 
> Keli Amann
> User Experience Specialist
> Academic Computing Services, Stanford University
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "csev" <csev at umich.edu>
> To: "Keli Sato Amann" <kamann at stanford.edu>
> Cc: "Sakai Dev" <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>, sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org, "pedagogy Learning" <pedagogy at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 3:00:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Benefits of 2.9 upgrade?
> 
> Here is a start:
> 
> http://www.slideshare.net/csev/sakai-29-and-sakai-210-portal-and-plans
> 
> I would verify things in Nighty as plans sometimes change.
> 
> /Chuck
> 
> On Feb 8, 2012, at 4:29 PM, Keli Sato Amann wrote:
> 
>> Hello
>> Our UX group is being asked to describe what's in 2.9 and the benefit it provides--we'll create this to sell our users on it (i.e. not a list of JIRA items). Has anyone started something like this for 2.9? If not, I guess we'll just start reviewing whats up on nightly. Perhaps we could start making notes somewhere on Confluence jointly. If you have started something or also need to do something similar, let us know.
>> 
>> Thank you
>> Keli Amann
>> User Experience Specialist
>> Academic Computing Services, Stanford University
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