integration | Jason E. Shao

JA-SIG Unconf: Recap

Nov

18

2007

So, the JA-SIG un-conference (even the working sessions) is over, giving me a chance to do some thinking and reflection about the event and its aftermath. Overall, the attendance, interest, and excitement demonstrated by all of the participants was pretty overwhelming. We had both more individuals, institutions, and organizations represented than we ever would have ...

EDUCAUSE Community Source Reception

Oct

31

2007

At the Community Source reception cosponsored by JA-SIG, Sakai, Kuali it was uplifting to see the number of people participating. CIOs, managers, developers, vendors were all present in abundance. It was also clear from conversation at the reception that open-source in the Higher Ed is breaking into new areas. While there’s no question infrastructure and ...

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: U-Camp

Jun

11

2007

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? ...

Sakai: Powered by uPortal?

Jun

7

2007

[Single Mind Consulting – Summary of Sakai](href=”http://www.singlemindconsulting.com/files/white_sakai_described_v1.pdf) > Furthermore, Sakai is designed as a series of independent tools built upon a robust, standards-based framework (uPortal). > `` > Sakai’s uPortal is a powerful portal environment that utilizes the portlet specification to ensure interoperability. This particular perception – that Sakai contains an embedded uPortal instance which ...