Notes from Educause 2007 (part 1)

I spent last week at Educause in Seattle. With lots of warm sunshine and only one day of rain, Seattle delivered uncharacteristically beautiful October weather. Still, I spent most of the week inside. I’ve already written about the Sakai Board Meeting that took place on Monday the 22nd. Here are some [...]

Educause: Sakai Board Meeting

I thought I’d get a quick note out to everyone before Educause starts in earnest. Warning…this has no content related to teaching, learning or collaboration.
On Monday we held a Sakai Board meeting. There were no new Board resolutions coming out of this meeting, so there is little of real consequence to report. Mainly, I [...]

JISC and Sakai

I spent yesterday morning at Berkeley, which was hosting a delegation from JISC and HEFCE, both institutions that support higher education in the UK. Given the increasing presence of Sakai in the UK, I thought it worthwhile to explain a little about these organizations to the Sakai community. Others know more than I [...]

Seven to Three, Three to One

I have no way to connect this to Sakai. Enough said.

Socialism and Sakai Commercial Affiliates

 
I was recently having a glass of wine with someone who was unfamiliar with the notion of open source. She is a relatively new employee at a for-profit company in the Higher Ed space and, upon understanding the Sakai community source model, said “that sounds like socialism!” I wasn’t sure if the comment was [...]

Fluid and Sakai

I’m sure this will be the first of many entries about Sakai and Fluid. At least it should be if we’re both doing our jobs.
As you probably know, the Fluid Project is, in their own words:
…a worldwide collaborative project to help improve the usability and accessibility of community open source projects with a focus [...]