A day-long, interactive session to craft a Sakai/OSP implementation plan tailored to your institution's characteristics, resources and needs. Each university considering Sakai and/or OSP is distinctive, but to ensure implementation success, each should prepare for issues common to any technology change, and a few issues unique to open/community source applications. Session leaders will help participants begin to develop a detailed implementation plan for their campus.
The Sakai Foundation is pleased to announce that the December 2007 Sakai Community Conference will be held in Newport Beach, California, USA, Tuesday-Thursday, December 4-7, with pre- and post-conference sessions and activities on Monday the 3rd, and Friday, the 7th. The site will be the Newport Beach Marriott. read more »
"Open Source Success," Campus Technology, 7/23/2006, http://www.campustechnology.com/article.aspx?aid=41086
7/23/2006
How to ensure a winning implementation on your campus. read more »
Have you heard the news? Harvard is changing its mission statement to read: "Harvard strives to create knowledge, to open the minds of students to that knowledge, and to enable students to take best advantage of their educational opportunities, supported by a pervasive open source technology environment." Just kidding. But why wait for Harvard? It's time to move open source beyond the machine room at universities and put it into the top-level institutional strategies that support their educational mission. Here's why: read more »
Co-Presenter: Allison Bloodworth, Senior User Interaction Designer, University of California, Berkeley read more »
Thanks to the University of London, I was able to try out a few open source portfolio systems, including Elgg, Mahara and Moodle. read more »
The funniest monkey and driving force behind DrupalEd, Bill Fitzgerald, just posted about a new feed aggregation demo via Drupal:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/7271 read more »
After 5 years as Portland State's Director for Web Communications, I've moved on to work for The rSmart Group, a commercial provider of open source technologies working mostly in the education sector with Sakai, OSP and Kuali. read more »
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