Jason E. Shao

Using Sakai in multiple institutional research settings - AERS

Case Study: Adult Literacy - used resources for file storage and as a documentation store, and diary entries stored as discussion entries. Teams liked the ability to contribute entries/discussions asynchronously, and despite being in many separate locations. Site Stats showed that most visits were content reads (~75%) [...]

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.

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 so that you’re focused on only [...]

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.