[sakai2-tcc] post conference TCC meeting?

[Matthew Jones]

Yea, nobody *needs* to know old school Sakai development unless they want
to do maintenance (and if that's the case we could talk to them outside of
this session). I agree that administration of Sakai CLE and integration
with external tools is still a useful area and something that's often
overlooked in the regular sessions. John Leasia used to give a good
configuring Sakai presentation in the past at and before Boston [1], and
Kara at rSmart picked it up at Denver [2] but I don't think anyone did
anything as indepth at L.A. The only people that know are the ones who have
been working in the software for a long time, and most of those Admin pages
haven't gotten any easier.

The integrations are a good idea because there are a lot of them out there
in the contrib space, and even more available via LTI that I'd bet most
people don't even know about. And it's much easier to integrate your app
with LTI (if you only need simple grading or what can be provided via
EB/WS) in your app. Building that out and adding more external features
would be nice. There were a bunch of contributed patch tickets for adding
more external interfaces that the release team noticed doing these reviews
that had been hanging out there too for various tools.

I don't think this is something one person can/should take over, and the
'expert panel' has seemed a good idea in the past.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/jleasiaum/configuring-sakai-boston09
[2] http://www.slideshare.net/raraweez/configuring-sakai2010denverconference

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Aaron Zeckoski <aaronz at vt.edu> wrote:

> It was actually me who organized those before Anthony took over in
> Boston conference (since I could not attend that one) but I, like
> Anthony, was hoping someone else would take them over though
> realistically it doesn't seem too likely. That bootcamp has evolved
> from developer java training to RSF training to general developer
> training to integration focused to admin/integrator focused (which is
> where it should be at this point IMO). I put in a proposal for a half
> day session on installing/configuring/integrating with Sakai CLE which
> I am hoping to get some help with.
>
> -AZ
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com>
> wrote:
> > Yea, I'd be interested in this too. In the past, Monday has mostly beem
> half
> > day or day long seminar's (like CLE/OAE boot camp). This was something
> > Anthony organized and I think he was hoping someone else (from here?)
> would
> > pick up, but I don't even know the status of that. I wonder if these were
> > moved to Sunday or not going to happen this year. These seem to be well
> > attended still, but I wasn't sure what people wanted to know about
> anymore.
> >
> > The conference last year seemed much less technical focused and much more
> > use focused to me, at least for the sessions I was in. This feels
> different
> > from the first conference I attended in Boston which had a lot of
> technical
> > focus. Maybe it's just the people that are presenting and submitting
> > proposals, or maybe it's just a sign of there being significantly more
> users
> > in the community than developers. The technical stuff seemed to happen in
> > the backrooms or at the BOF's. I didn't submit any proposals (yet) for
> this
> > year, though it feels like there would still be good topics to talk
> about.
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Seth Theriault <slt at columbia.edu>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Aaron Zeckoski wrote:
> >>
> >>> The problem with Sunday is that there are workshops and seminars that
> >>> day and some folks might be teaching or attending those.
> >>
> >>
> >> Has anyone seen an actuall overall schedule? Somthing other than the
> vague
> >> "Sundy - Thursday" announcements? For example, is Monday a real
> conference
> >> day?
> >>
> >> Seth
> >>
> >
> >
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