Ian’s talking about plug-able back-end implementations for ContentHosting and the Resources tool. Looks like a VFS type layer that should support adding arbitrary backing stores - the example he gave was DSpace, but people are talking about other stores like AFS, iTunes, etc.
One of the comments that’s come up during the discussion is how do [...]
Caught the last half of U-Camp at Sakai — mostly a presentation on RSF, from a designer’s perspective. There are pieces of RSF that do look attractive — plain (X)HTML templates, Spring integration, etc. I still wonder if the world needs yet another component framework — especially one that’s essentially proprietary to Sakai/Higher Education. Tapestry? [...]
(at the last minute) I’m going to be in Amsterdam next week at the Sakai conference. I’d love to link up with anyone there — IM jayshao or drop me email through the contact form and let’s pick a time to get together.
Dutch Sakai News & Opinions: New Executive Director for Sakai Foundation “Sakai Foundation Board of Directors, has announced today that we have a new Executive Director: ‘After a thorough search I am pleased to announce, on behalf of the Board of Directors, that Michael Korcuska has been named Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation, effective July [...]
Sakai User Support Issues - Colin from the FLUID project is working to compile a list of outstanding UI/UE issues with Sakai, to target as FLUID gears itself up. Interesting list, though there’s a big project up ahead. Emerging themes seem to deal a lot with consistency and integration — not surprising considering Sakai’s architectural [...]
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