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
When will Sakai 3 be “ready”? When is a good time to migrate? If I’m under pressure to migrate in the short term, what should I do? Should I go to Sakai 2 and migrate later? Or is that like trying to leap the Grand Canyon in two hops? These are tough questions, in large part because they depend a lot on the specifics of your institution. I’m going to do my best to provide some guidelines here and, in the process, provide some context about what Sakai 3 is as well as how the Sakai community is working together on it.
Enkele weken geleden is de nieuwe internationale Sakai website gelanceerd door de Sakai Foundation. En die ziet er beslist zeer goed uit!I’m very pleased to announce that Sakai 2.6.0 is now officially available! Source, binary and demo distributions are available for download. For more information on what’s included in the release, see the release summary (in powerpoint) and the documentation page (in its fancy new format!).
This release is the second time we’ve taken Sakai through a revised process we originally put in place for 2.5. This process took the release through several beta and release candidate stages. While there will always be bugs in large complicated software packages like Sakai, we’re certain that the extra effort an attention that the community put into this process has resulted in a significantly higher quality release. In fact this process caused some significant delays to the release date as we found important bugs that needed to be fixed before the software was released (more on this below).
The Sakai community builds up a lot of energy during the now annual international conference, so I took upon myself to champion the idea (people on the weekly conference call could hardly stop me from yapping... sorry about that!) of getting as much information out of the conference to the rest of the community who could not make it, including my UD colleagues. It all started with a call for volunteer Citizen Journalists about a week before the conference (..).
Last week the Sakai Foundation distributed (it went to Sakai Foundation member reps initially) the first installment of a Sakai Executive Brief that we plan to publish every 6 months. It is focused on providing organizational managers and executives with a brief overview of what has been and what will be happening in Sakai. Those who already follow Sakai closely won’t find a lot new in here but, even Sakai insiders may find it useful for communicating with stakeholders on campus.Het document is een mooi vormgegeven PDF document, met links naar belangrijke documenten en websites. Erg handig! Zegt het voort, zou ik zeggen.
'Communities (of practice) are everywhere and people generally participate in a number of them', according to Etienne Wenger (http://www.ewenger.com/).
The UvA communities (University of Amsterdam) aims to place this important observation in the context of the 21st century University, by creating a ubiquitous community platform that is able to stage a number of different communities and users, including individuals from outside university. Within one system, users can become a member of one or more communities, and communities may be formed around a number of topics, ranging from a general field of studies to an ad hoc problem area.
Unlike most information systems in educational organizations, UvA communities (http://www.communities.uva.nl/)is open to the public and is free to use. It's very purpose is to allow people from outside the university organization to connect within the realm of the university and to give insiders means to easily connect outside university, all having access to the same set of tools and services, which are extensible with tailor-made functionality. People from many different cultural and scientific backgrounds collaborate on a variety of topics and take on multiple roles in multiple communities.
UvA Communities started as a pilot project in the autumn of 2006 at the institute of interdisciplinary studies. Together with a small company Edia ,the
I’m pleased to announce that John Norman (Cambridge) will be continuing as a Sakai Foundation Board member and Stephen Marquard (Cape Town) will be joining the Sakai Foundation Board of Directors.
This year’s slate of candidates was impressively accomplished and diverse–a real testament to the vibrancy of the Sakai community. I want to thank all of those who were willing to serve the Sakai community and in congratulating John and Stephen. The transition officially occurs with the first board meeting in 2009, currently scheduled for January 15th.
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