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Sakai Overview

Sakai Overview. Sakai Conference: June 12-14, 2007 Amsterdam, NL. http://www.sakaiproject.org /. Sakai in one Slide. Collaboration, Teaching, and Learning FOSS - 100% free to use, modify and contribute Sakai is 3 years old Non-profit Sakai Foundation January 2006

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Sakai Overview

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  1. Sakai Overview Sakai Conference: June 12-14, 2007 Amsterdam, NL • http://www.sakaiproject.org/

  2. Sakai in one Slide.... • Collaboration, Teaching, and Learning • FOSS - 100% free to use, modify and contribute • Sakai is 3 years old • Non-profit Sakai Foundation January 2006 • Financial support from 100+ Higher Education, 15 companies • Six paid staff members • 100+ people developing and testing Sakai releases • Nifty Web site www.sakaiproject.org • Sakai Community Google Map Mashup • Very cool “Sakai Overview” (10 minutes) Overview Video: http://www.dr-chuck.com/media.php?id=64

  3. The Sakai ProductA Collaboration and Learning Environment

  4. What’s in a name? • Sakai is named after Hiroyuki Sakai of the Food Channel Television program “Iron Chef”. Hiroyuki is renowned for his fusion of French and Japanese cuisine.

  5. What’s in a name? Sakai was born in 2004 - the year of the Monkey. • Perhaps a better name for this open source project would be Sikai, making use of the Chinese characters “Think Open”

  6. Placing the Sakai Product • A Collaboration and Learning Environment Teaching and Learning Collaboration / Groupware Portfolio Video: http://www.dr-chuck.com/media.php?id=73

  7. Sakai can be used for many applications • (at the same time on the same servers) Distance Education Teaching and Learning Small group Collaboration Community systems Portfolios eScience eScience Sakai has a very flexible role system so that Sakai “looks” right for each of the uses.

  8. News/RSS Podcasting Poll (*) Portlets Preferences Presentation Profile / Roster SakaiBrary Schedule Search Transformable WebDAV Wiki Announcements Blog (*) Calendar Drop Box Email Archive Resources Chat Room Forums Threaded Discussion Link Tool MailTool Message Center iTunesU Sakai 2.4 Generic Tools (*) indicates tool is provisional for release 2.4

  9. Sakai 2.4 Teaching and Portfolio Teaching Tools Assignments Gradebook IMS Common Cartridge Module Editor QTI Authoring (*) QTI Assessment (*) Section Management Syllabus Postem Portfolio Tools Forms (*) Evaluations (*) Glossary (*) Matrices (*) Layouts (*) Templates (*) Reports (*) Wizards (*) (*) indicates tool is provisional for release 2.4

  10. Contributed Area • Collaboration • JForum • Image Gallery • Image Quiz • Site Statistics Tracking • Agora Real-Time Conferencing • Open Courseware Export • JSR-170 Repository • Evaluation System • GuanXi / Shibboleth • Teaching and Learning • SCORM Support Contributed -> Provisional -> Full Release

  11. Comparing Features - www.edutools.org Teaching Video: http://www.dr-chuck.com/media.php?id=65

  12. Sakai in Production Text 20+ Full scale installations

  13. http://www.sakaiproject.org/sakai-map/

  14. Sakai in Production Text

  15. Sakai in Production Text

  16. Sakai in Production Text  3014 - Winter 07 class sites 16145 - Total class sites to date 11155 - Total project sites  1232 - GradTools student sites 86972 - My Workspaces to date

  17. The Sakai CommunityA group of people around the world working to build and share a common Collaboration and Learning Environment using a Community Source approach.

  18. Why Join Sakai? - I can write it myself Uploading Files Flexible Roles Chat Discussion Gradebook Testing

  19. Why Pick Sakai? - Actually not so simple iTunes U Publisher Data Import Lecture Recording Students E-Portfolio Students attending multiple schools Shibboleth Guan Xi Outsourcing hosting WebDav RSS Feeds iCal Export CalDav Support Collaborative Writing SMS integration Data Mining Knowledge Management NetVibes / Pageflakes Open CourseWare Integration Off Line data access PDA Integration Web Services Uploading Files Flexible Roles Chat Discussion Gradebook Testing Federated Authentication Google Scholar SCORM 1.2 SCORM 2004

  20. Albany Medical College Monash University University of California, Los Angeles Arizona State University Nagoya University University of California, Merced Australian National University New York University University of California, Santa Barbara Boston University School of Management Northeastern University University of Cambridge, CARET Brown University North-West University (SA) University of Cape Town, SA Carleton College Northwestern University University of Colorado at Boulder Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching Ohio Learning Network University of Delaware Carnegie Mellon University Ohio State University University of Hawaii Ceritos Community College Princeton University University of Hull Coast Community College District Rice University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Columbia University Ringling School of Art and Design University of Melbourne Cornell University Roskilde University (Denmark) University of Michigan Dartmouth College Rutgers University University of Minnesota Florida Community College at Jacksonville Simon Fraser University University of Missouri Foothill-De Anza Community College Stanford University University of Nebraska Franklin University State University of New York University of North Texas Georgetown University Stockholm University University of Oklahoma Harvard University SURF/University of Amsterdam University of South Africa (UNISA) Hosei University IT Research Center Syracuse University University of Texas at Austin Indiana University Texas State University - San Marcos University of Toronto, KMDI Johns Hopkins University Tufts University University of Virginia Lancaster University Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain) University of Washington Loyola University, Chicago Universitat de Lleida (Spain) University of Wisconsin, Madison Lubeck University of Applied Sciences University College Dublin Virginia Polytechnic Institute/University Maricopa County Community College University of Auckland Whitman College Marist College University of California, Office of the Chancellor Yale University MIT University of California Berkeley University of California Berkeley University of California, Davis Sakai Foundation non-Profit Members

  21. Sakai Community Metrics from ohloh.net • 800,00 Lines of Code • Core Sakai • $11 million dolars of investment • 42 Volunteer Developers • Contrib • 38 Volunteer Developers • $7.7 million dollars of investment Developer Video: http://www.dr-chuck.com/media.php?id=53

  22. Sakai Commercial Affiliates

  23. The Sakai FoundationSupporting and coordinating the work of the Sakai Community.

  24. Mission Statement • The mission of the Sakai Foundation is to hold ownership of the Sakai software and to guide and nurture the community of activity around the Sakai software. The Sakai Foundation seeks to as to maximize the positive impact of the Sakai software, technology, and community on teaching and research.

  25. SakaiFoundation Structure Executive Director Board of Directors Community Communication Software Coordination Requirements Process Conference Training Finance Membership Legal/License Marketing Connecting End Users with Developers Bug Tracking Release Mgt Documentation QA Architecture

  26. Development Structure K, Inc Sakai Foundation Sakai staff Sakai Paid Staff Sakai Volunteers U of Z U of X U of Y U of B J, Inc U of C All of the Sakai developers, designers, and QA are working for Sakai as volunteers.

  27. Project Coordination to Produce a Release Sakai (product) Framework Samigo Web Services Release Schedule rWiki Committer Blog O.S.P. Foundation Staff Release Release Project Provisional Project Contributed Project

  28. Sakai Release Timeline - Two Releases per Year Months Requirements Prioritization Kicking off 2.5 -10 2.4 December 2006 Coordination Meeting -5 2.4 March 2007 -2 QA Begins 0 2.4 May 2007 Release Maintenance “ends” 2-2-x, 2-3-x +12 2-1-x Community Maintenance ??

  29. Requirements Process • Requirements is how the user needs are communicated across the community • Mark Norton is Requirements Coordinator • Continuous Requirements Gathering - JIRA • Gathering and entering feature requests • Users, Developers, Technical Supoprt Staff • Formal requirements process runs once for each major release • Open requirements “roll over” from one phase to the next • Guided process to review, understand, document and prioritize requests into “requirements” • High level “directions” document produced to give community summary information.

  30. Sakai Requirements (Sample) • REQ-282 Users should have more information and control over site import • REQ-26 Emails Should Contain Site URL and Item URL • REQ-173 Chat should allow users to search for messages from a particular user • REQ-159 Graphical content in rich text editor • REQ-65 Email Archive should be deep-linkable/bookmarkable • REQ-375 Timed Release of documents/files in Resources tool • REQ-109 Search across site and sites • REQ-124 Add SCORM Player to Sakai • REQ-129 Support for Learning Design and other Work Flow Engines

  31. Community Requirement Summary for 2.4 • Assessment • Migration • Portfolio • Course Management • Statistics and Collection • Grade book and Grading Service • User Interaction • Support SQL Server • Resource Tool Improvements • Mail Tool Improvements • SCORM

  32. http://issues.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/f3

  33. Project Coordination • Peter Knoop is Project Coordinator • Charged with communicating and tracking progress on bugs and requirements • Tracking and communicating amongst volunteer developers • 29 Discussion and Working Groups • 89 Teams - Full Release • 10 Teams - Provisional • 18 Teams - Contrib • Project Management Meetings • June 9, 2007 - Amsterdam Coordination Video: http://www.dr-chuck.com/media.php?id=76

  34. Quality Assurance • Megan May is QA Director • Coordinates 60+ QA Volunteers - often technical support staff at adopting institutions • Full QA of major (2/yr) and minor releases (4/yr) • Reports to the Sakai Community and Board for each release • Significant transition in Sakai QA approach since 2.0 • QA drives release process and makes the final call • Significantly broadens community involvement in release in general Integration Video: http://www.dr-chuck.com/media.php?id=57

  35. Community Communication • Anthony Whyte is Community Liason • Foundation questions • RFQ Help • Security Officer • Mary Miles - Membership Coordination • Web / Communication Team • Susan Hardin • Margaret Wagner Commnuity Video: http://www.dr-chuck.com/media.php?id=74

  36. Security Procedures • Security bugs reported directly to security officer • Non-public Process (usually six weeks) • Threat/priority assessed • Security JIRA filed • Patch developed and QA • Patch distributed to known sites • Public Process • Announcement of the *existence* of a bug • Distribute patch to newly discovered sites • Informal polling of patch deployment • Check into source tree • Maintenance release

  37. Membership in Sakai Foundation • Costs • $10K per year for Companies • $10K per year for large Universities ($5K for small Universities) • Benefits • Support and increase the Foundation provided services • Training Director • Internationalization Coordinator • Support the Sakai Foundation Fellows selected from volunteers • Vote for the Sakai Foundation Board of Directors • Prioritize Requirements • Member-private commnuication channel for sensitive information and Security issues

  38. Sakai: More Information • Main site: www.sakaiproject.org • Bugs: bugs.sakaiproject.org • Sakai-wide collaboration area • collab.sakaiproject.org • sakai-dev@sakaiproject.org • sakai-user@sakaiproject.org Sakai Conference: June 12-14, 2007 Amsterdam, NL Sakai Workshop: Educause Australia April 29 - May 2 Melbourne, AU Text Sakai Track at JA-Sig Conference June 27-27, Denver http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/whereIsSakai/

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