Comments on: JA-Sig Spring 2008 Conference http://sakaiblog.korcuska.net/2008/05/05/ja-sig-spring-2008-conference/ Occasional thoughts and updates about Sakai Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:28:56 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Charles Severance http://sakaiblog.korcuska.net/2008/05/05/ja-sig-spring-2008-conference/#comment-563 Charles Severance Tue, 06 May 2008 15:36:56 +0000 http://mkorcuska.wordpress.com/?p=106#comment-563 I completely agree that this was an amazing success - because we did not also have a massive Sakai conference as a distraction - we were able to focus on the important issues. Also having the three days of JA-Sig before the Sakai meetings allowed much discussion to happen in hallways with small groups to explore ideas and options to bring into the larger meeting. As you say, having a Sakai track at JA-SIg was just enough presentations to allow us to outreach across open source higher education communities without having the stress of six tracks - all Sakai - all the time. The meeting in Paris in June will be great because it will be all about Sakai - but we will all be very busy during that meeting - it will be harder to get mind space to plan development. All in all - this was the most productive developer meeting that I can remember. I completely agree that this was an amazing success – because we did not also have a massive Sakai conference as a distraction – we were able to focus on the important issues. Also having the three days of JA-Sig before the Sakai meetings allowed much discussion to happen in hallways with small groups to explore ideas and options to bring into the larger meeting.

As you say, having a Sakai track at JA-SIg was just enough presentations to allow us to outreach across open source higher education communities without having the stress of six tracks – all Sakai – all the time.

The meeting in Paris in June will be great because it will be all about Sakai – but we will all be very busy during that meeting – it will be harder to get mind space to plan development.

All in all – this was the most productive developer meeting that I can remember.

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