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Sakai Conference: Moving from a Commercial Env. to Sakai

Jeshua Pacifici talked a bit about his experiences migrating from Blackboard to Sakai. Very broad detail focused, less information on the technical and detail sides of migrations (e.g. how to get Courses/Projects out of Blackboard). High level overview of some benefits, caveats, and others.

Sakai Conference: Easing Data Recovery

Indiana has built a database structure that has triggers (in Oracle) to copy changes to db tables into backup schemas (per table/schema). This allows them to recover deleted, or other data, by retrieving it and copying it back into the appropriate table. Resources on the file system are handled via snapshots (on a NetApp?) Some ...

Sakai Conference: Portal Options

Chuck Sev. is doing a demo of some of the new features that have been ported into Charon Portal in trunk. Additional hooks in Ian’s new portal Impl support multiple Velocity ### Features * **Hierarchy** – sub sites, **NO INHERITED AUTHORIZATION**, velocity templated * **Single Tool View** – edit Page order, and the toolbar/nav disappears ...

Sakai Conference: Content Hosting & Resources

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 ...

Sakai Conference: U-Camp

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? ...