UvA Communities (Sakai) in a COIN Universe

UvA Communities in a COIN Universe, post on collaboration of Edia & UvA intergrating Sakai in COIN, a project of SURFnet.

"SURFnet is taking the next step in online collaboration by initiating the innovative Collaboration Infrastructure project (COIN). In COIN, SURFnet and the higher education and research sector are developing an infrastructure based on open standards that will allow applications and systems to share information online."

link to blogpost:

http://bit.ly/aA2fbx

VU - FEW studenten per september van start in het SAKAI portfolio

"Vanaf eind september zullen studenten van o.a. Natuurkunde en Medische Natuurwetenschappen hun portfolio over 'Academic Core' klaar zetten in Sakai, een open source omgeving. Het unieke daarvan is dat de digitale omgeving door een internationale community van deelnemende hoger onderwijs instellingen ontwikkeld en onderhouden wordt. Hiervoor werd door FEW het Blackboard portfolio systeem gebruikt waar de VU per september 2011 van af zal stappen. Momenteel wordt hard gewerkt aan de voorbereidingen."

bron:ICT & Onderwijsnieuws VU

EuroSakai 2010 and call for Papers

This year the EuroSakai 2010 Conference will be in Valencia, Spain. Valencia is a lovely Mediterranean city with a warm weather.

The conference will consist of a BootCamp/Workshop on the 1st of March followed by 2 days of conference presentations and BOF meetings on 2nd and 3rd of March.

About PRESENTATION PROPOSALS
Please we need all your collaboration for the conference presentations. If you think you have any good experience to talk about, a new tool to show or any good practice you want to share, please think about doing a presentation in the conference.

Presentation proposals can be sent to the conference e-email address eurosakai2010@upv.es

About the BOOTCAMP/WORKSHOP
In the schedule it is included a Bootcamp/Workshop focused on configuration and maintenance for the sakai 2.x instance.
As you may know, sakai 3 is coming now strongly and may be you are interested also in a second and parallel BOOTCAMP for sakai 3.

Registration & Information
You can find all the information about the conference in the sakai website http://sakaiproject.org/sakai-european-regional-conference-2010

Registration and payment can be done in https://www.upv.es/pls/sosak/sic_eusakai.REGISTRATION?p_vista=poliformat&P_IDIOMA=i

The registration fee is 100 EUR and includes all the meals for the conference.

If you are from Europe or you are planning to attend this conference please visit the web site and register as soon as possible.