[Using Sakai] [Building Sakai] Small dream of mine

Diego del Blanco Orobitg diego.delblanco.sakai at gmail.com
Tue Jan 6 10:03:45 PST 2015


If in you institution the LMS is called "My classroom"  people don't
understand when the system says Sakai... what is Sakai????? They only know
"My classroom".    That's the reason for this.

2015-01-06 11:02 GMT-07:00 Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org>:

> From a marketing perspective, doesn't it make sense to give the brand
> "Sakai" some visibility? Is there room in this strategy to do that still?
>
> -- Neal
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Diego del Blanco Orobitg <
> diego.delblanco.sakai at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree.
>> The second option is very easy with the new tools we are using to
>> translate. We can search easily all the strings with the Sakai word on
>> them. And I think they are some, but not a very very large number.
>>
>> The first option about use the name in the properties file, requires more
>> developing. But once we have all the strings located... maybe it deserves
>> the effort.
>>
>> I vote for a mixed way. Try to remove it for the strings where this is
>> not absolutely needed and use the "complex" approach in the ones that we
>> definitively need to say the name of the system. I must say that I think
>> that we can avoid most of them or all.
>>
>> Diego
>>
>> 2015-01-06 9:59 GMT-07:00 Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk>:
>>
>> Wouldn't it be great if the word "Sakai" didn't appear in any of the
>>> onscreen test. Every single institution will have to change this to the
>>> local installation name - thing of the Sakai-man-ghours spent doing this.
>>>
>>> One solution is to use the "ui.service" property instead of the string.
>>> The other is to remove the word Sakai and, if necessary, replace with a
>>> generic word or phrase such as "this system".
>>>
>>> adam
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> ** Note change of email address to adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk **
>>>
>>> Dr A C Marshall, WebLearn Service Manager, University of Oxford.
>>> IT Services, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford. OX2 6NN.
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> *Diego del Blanco Orobitg*
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*Diego del Blanco Orobitg*
Spain & LATAM Regional Manager (*ANI Sakai <http://www.anisakai.es/>*)
Apereo LATAM Representative (*Apereo Foundation <http://www.apereo.org/>*)

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