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JA-SIG Conference: Phil Windley Digital Identity Keynote

Jun

25

2007

Listening to Phil’s keynote. Will be trying to post video and audio at some point — in the meantime, there’s a good thread about reputation and privacy. *Update:* Posted very rough audio recording of the keynote, also available as part of the podcast.

Sakai Conference: Moving from a Commercial Env. to Sakai

Jun

12

2007

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: Portal Options

Jun

12

2007

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

Jun

11

2007

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: Arrival

Jun

11

2007

The flight into Amsterdam from Newark was about an hour late, unsurprisingly. Once here things were pretty smooth — the train to Amsterdam Central Station was very nice. Once I got to Central station, I spent a few minutes trying to sort out the right tram to take to the Movenpick for the Sakai conference, ...