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[Announcements] Sakai Newsletter May 14, 2009
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Sakai Newsletter May 14, 2009 1. 10th Sakai Conference Update: Early Bird Registration Discount Ends Soon 2. Boston Sakai Pre-Conference Workshop: Building a Portfolio for Your Institution 3. Boston Sakai Session on a New Vision for the Open Source Portfolio in Sakai 3.0 4. DSpace + Fedora Commons = DuraSpace 5. Blackboard Catalyst Award Winners: Jim Pease and Michael Morrison 6. 9th Annual Cyber Teachers' Institute -- Registration is Open! 7. Identity Services Summit 8. Marist College Has Made 2 New QA Servers Available to the Sakai Community 9. Poll: Personnel Assigned to Sakai 10. rSmart Job Opening: Senior Software Engineer 11. Recent Email Group Discussions 12. Events ------------------------------ 1. 10th Sakai Conference in Boston Update: Early Bird Registration Discount Ends Soon This is a quick reminder that the Early Bird Discounted Registration for the 10th Sakai Conference ends on June 5. If you have not already registered for the conference, please do so using the link below. In addition, the discounted hotel rate of $199 per night (including free internet access) ends on June 5. After that date, the rate will increase and rooms will be available on a space-available basis. Conference Registration: https://educonference.com/sakai/boston/registration/index.php Hotel Registration: https://resweb.passkey.com/go/65705248 We look forward to seeing you in July! Mary Miles mmiles@... ------------------------------ 2. Boston Sakai Pre-Conference Workshop: Building a Portfolio for Your Institution Using Sakai The Open Source Portfolio Community is pleased to offer a full-day pre-conference workshop at Boston Sakai entitled: "Building a Portfolio for Your Institution Using Sakai" Tuesday, July 7, 2009 Morning and Afternoon At the workshop, faculty, instructional technologists, and web developers will collaborate on a simple portfolio project. Participants will receive step-by-step guidance on building OSP data structures, a chance to do it yourself with hands-on activities, and the opportunity to get your questions about building portfolios answered. The hands-on activities in this workshop will allow your team to return to your campus to build your first implementation of OSP! We encourage you to: - Send your faculty and instructional technologists to the morning session to learn how the OSP tools work together to enhance teaching and learning, and to get hands-on practice in creating matrices, wizards, and forms. - Send your web developers and XML gurus to the afternoon session to focus on technical knowledge and best practices for building OSP data structures to implement a given portfolio design. If you plan to attend the Teaching and Learning workshop in the afternoon, please come to the OSP workshop in the morning and ask the web developers from your institution to participate in more technical activities in the OSP workshop in the afternoon. For more details and the workshop schedule, please refer to the Three Canoes Consulting website at: http://www.threecanoes.com/2009-boston-workshop Once you are registered for Boston Sakai, there is no additional charge for this workshop. The OSP Community hopes to see you there! Janice A. Smith, Ph.D. Three Canoes Consulting janice.smith@... jasmith@... ------------------------------ 3. Boston Sakai Session on a New Vision for the Open Source Portfolio in Sakai 3.0 Dear OSP, Teaching and Learning, and Sakai UX Communities, The OSP Community is pleased to announce that it will host a "blue sky" discussion session on redesigning OSP for Sakai 3.0 at the Boston Sakai Conference in July 2009. This session will draw on previous work done at Sakai Amsterdam, Sakai Paris, and weekly OSP community calls, to focus on preserving and enhancing the core portfolio functions of Guide, Collect, Reflect, Document, Tag, Associate, Evaluate, Present, Share, Assess, Report, Flow, Customize, and Preserve. We invite you to join us to discuss ways our communities could collaborate to address areas of common focus in Sakai 3.0. Janice A. Smith, Ph.D. Three Canoes Consulting janice.smith@... jasmith@... ------------------------------ 4. DSpace + Fedora Commons = DuraSpace In case you haven't heard by now, DSpace and Fedora Commons have joined forces to create DuraSpace. From their press release: "Fedora Commons and the DSpace Foundation, two of the largest providers of open source software for managing and providing access to digital content, have announced today that they will join their organizations to pursue a common mission. Jointly, they will provide leadership and innovation in open source technologies for global communities who manage, preserve, and provide access to digital content. "The joined organization, named 'DuraSpace,' will sustain and grow its flagship repository platforms -- Fedora and DSpace. DuraSpace will also expand its portfolio by offering new technologies and services that respond to the dynamic environment of the web and to new requirements from existing and future users. DuraSpace will focus on supporting existing communities and will also engage a larger and more diverse group of stakeholders in support of its not-for-profit mission. The organization will be led by an executive team consisting of Sandy Payette (Chief Executive Officer), Michele Kimpton (Chief Business Officer), and Brad McLean (Chief Technology Officer) and will operate out of offices in Ithaca, NY and Cambridge, MA." You can read the full press release here: http://tinyurl.com/pdraod Congratulations to both organizations! Michael Korcuska Executive Director, Sakai Foundation mkorcuska@... phone: +1 510-931-6559 mobile (US): +1 510-599-2586 skype: mkorcuska ------------------------------ 5. Blackboard Catalyst Award Winners: Jim Pease and Michael Morrison Jim Pease (jmpease@...) and Michael Morrison (memorr02@...) of Syracuse University have won a Blackboard Innovative Development award for developing a "Sakai Learning Environment Connector" between Blackboard and Sakai. You can read more at the following site: http://blog.vcu.edu/blackboardfaculty/2009/05/bb_announces_catalyst_award_wi.html ------------------------------ 6. 9th Annual Cyber Teachers' Institute -- Registration is Open! You are invited to participate in the 9th Annual Cyber Teachers' Institute (CTI)! CTI has served as a meeting place for great teachers to learn, unlearn, and relearn how to make effective use of web technologies to support online teaching, learning, and collaboration. The engaging dialogue on teaching principles and best strategies is the highlight of CTI. CTI is offered entirely online in an asynchronous format, delivered through Etudes (based on the Sakai software). It consists of the following professional development courses: - CTI 100: You CAN Teach Online - CTI 101: CLASSIC Cyber Teachers' Institute - CTI 102: ADVANCED Cyber Teachers' Institute Registration is now open! The courses are offered in June, July and August. The first course in the CTI series starts on June 1, 2009. If you are interested, please register ASAP: http://etudes.org/training-schedule-cti.htm Each course is scheduled for three weeks. Many participants take all three courses and enjoy moving through the experience together, as a community. As per ex-participants, CTI is most valuable, rewarding, engaging, and fun. "The courses challenged me to question my old habits more intensely than I have done in the past. I have experienced an exponential growth in those things I need to teach (and learn) in the future." - Russ "I am going on my third year of teaching so I am considered new to academia. However, I have learned more in these short weeks than my three years of teaching." - Mark For more information, see: http://etudes.org/cti/ We hope to "see" many of you in CTI this summer! Vivie Sinou Executive Director, Etudes, Inc. http://etudes.org/ sinou@... ------------------------------ 7. Identity Services Summit Jasig is co-sponsoring an "Identity Services Summit for Higher Ed Open/Community-Source Projects" at the Internet2/EDUCAUSE annual ACAMP event in Philadelphia on June 18th and 19th. At this "Advanced CAMP," architects, developers, and deployers of higher ed open/community-source software projects will explore Identity and Access Management issues and challenges. Participants will work together to identify common approaches to creating a more coherent IAM environment across these projects. For information about program, registration, and hotel accommodations, please visit http://net.educause.edu/content.asp?Section_ID=434. Jonathan Markow jjmarkow@... ------------------------------ 8. Marist College Has Made 2 New QA Servers Available to the Sakai Community Marist College is pleased to announce the availability of two additional QA servers: QA10-US and QA11-US. As part of Marist College's joint activities with IBM, rSmart, and the Sakai community to enable Sakai on Websphere and DB2, they have added these two servers. QA10 provides Websphere/DB2 on the System z mainframe environment for testing the latest tag releases of 2.6.x; and QA11, Websphere/DB2 environment on the System z mainframe is for testing trunk releases. These two servers are the first-ever hosted Sakai applications on a System z. This takes the total number of QA servers hosted by Marist for use by the community to a total of five. For any questions concerning these test instances, please contact me. Adam Hocek Information Technology Marist College Adam.Hocek@... ------------------------------ 9. Poll: Personnel Assigned to Sakai I am curious as to the number of people assigned to running and maintaining Sakai, and their roles. And so is my boss, and his boss, and so on. It would be great if you could take a moment to list the people assigned to Sakai at your institution along with a very short description of what each person does. The installations list is a great resource, but it doesn't say much about personnel: http://sakaiproject.org/portal/site/sakai-home/page/29186420-3b36-4381-9d53-bba4d17b6f1f I'll start: UC Merced: 1 employee, 4500 users 1. Full-time, general (programmer, sysadmin, dba, help desk) Thanks for any and all responses! Joshua Swink UC Merced joshua.swink@... ------------------------------ 10. rSmart Job Opening: Senior Software Engineer We are looking for an energetic and motivated Java Engineer to join our team working on open-source web applications used by colleges and universities around the country, specifically on our Sakai CLE offering. The principle focus of this position will be integrating new versions of the open source software into our product, developing enhancements, and working directly with the Sakai community to further enhance the application. This position will report to the Software Development Manager. Duties and Responsibilities: - Design, develop, and implement web-based Java applications based on Sakai. - Resolve technical issues for our clients through debugging, research, and investigation. - Merge defect resolutions and enhancements between code bases. - Work collaboratively with a diverse team of developers, web designers, QA staff, and functional experts. - Represent rSmart within the Sakai community, possibly including community development time working on version 3.0 - Follow the company's software development processes and standards. You can read the full job description here: http://www.rsmart.com/news/open-position-sr-software-engineer-sakai If you are interested or know anyone interested please contact me directly. John Bush Development Manager 602-490-0470 john.bush@... ------------------------------ 11. Recent Email Discussion Groups OSP stylesheet question http://n2.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--OSP-stylesheet-question-td2901954.html#a2901954 Change the wiki ? http://n2.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--Change-the-wiki---td2908649.html#a2908649 Sakai components modification http://n2.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--Sakai-components-modi-fication-td2898570.html#a2906659 Remote Eclipse over X-Terminal http://n2.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--Remote-Eclipse-over-X-Terminal-td2889805.html#a2889805 FCKeditor improvement? http://n2.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--FCKeditor-improvement--td2893338.html#a2893338 Setting up Sakai development environment http://n2.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--Setting-up-Sakai-development-environment-td2890177.html#a2890177 Import available users from a file to Sakai http://n2.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--Import-available-users-from-a-file-to-Sakai-td2883200.html#a2883200 Large Scale Quizzing http://n2.nabble.com/-Using-Sakai--Large-Scale-Quizzing-td2884599.html#a2884599 about insert data in the database http://n2.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--about-insert-data-in-the-database-td2870624.html#a2870624 performance storing resource bodies in SQL database vs network-filesystem http://n2.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--POLL%3A-performance-storing-resource-bodies-in-SQL-database-vs-network-filesystem-td2867234.html#a2867234 Portfolio Share & Notify http://n2.nabble.com/-Portfolio--Portfolio-Share---Notify-td2789573.html#a2789573 USER Poll: Any Sakai folks here using VoiceThread? http://n2.nabble.com/-Using-Sakai--Poll%3A-Any-Sakai-folks-here-using-VoiceThread--td2886764.html#a2886764 Group assignments behaviour when a student out of that group http://n2.nabble.com/-Using-Sakai--Group-assignments-behaviour-when-a-student-out-of-that-group-assignment-drops-the-course-td2871630.html#a2871630 Is anybody storing resource bodies...in MYSQLdatabase? http://n2.nabble.com/-Using-Sakai--Is-anybody-storing-resource-bodies...-in-MYSQL-database--td2846937.html#a2846964 Is everything content in Sakai 3? http://n2.nabble.com/Re%3A-Is-everything-content-in-Sakai-3--td2100598.html#a2100598 Proposal: create new Jira issue type: proposal http://n2.nabble.com/-DG%3A-User-Experience--Proposal%3A-create-new-Jira-issue-type%3A-proposal-td2789784.html#a2826951 ------------------------------ 12. Events eLearning Africa May 27- 29, 2009 Le Meridien President Dakar, Senegal www.elearning-africa.com. 2009 MoodleMoot San Francisco and 2nd Sloan-C Symposium on Emerging Technology in Online Learning June 17-19, 2009 Hyatt Regency San Francisco San Francisco, California http://moodlemoot.org/course/view.php?id=9 http://www.emergingonlinelearningtechnology.org/ Advanced CAMP: Identity Services Summit for Higher Ed Open/Community-Source Projects June 18-19, 2009 Radisson Plaza-Warwick Hotel Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania http://net.educause.edu/content.asp?Section_ID=434&bhcp=1 10th Sakai Conference in Boston July 8-10, 2009 Cambridge Hyatt Cambridge, Massachusetts http://www.sakaiproject.org/portal/site/sakai-news/page/04ed2fa2-77e2-40da-8100-e0a08b9fea15 AuSakai '09 September 17-18, 2009 Charles Sturt University Bathurst Campus Bathurst NSW, Australia http://www.csu.edu.au/division/landt/ausakai09/ausakai09.htm Assessment Institute in Indianapolis October 25-27, 2009 The Westin Indianapolis Indianapolis, Indiana http://www.planning.iupui.edu/institute Online Educa Berlin 2009 December 2-4, 2009 Hotel InterContinental Berlin Berlin, Germany http://www.online-educa.com/the-conference _______________________________________________ announcements mailing list announcements@... http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announcements TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send email to announcements-unsubscribe@... with a subject of "unsubscribe" |
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