I arrived in Paris late Thursday afternoon, so Friday was my first full day in the city. The hotel is very nice although everyone staying here seems to be either American or German–very few French folks choose the Marriott, I suspect, but it is the only hotel with conference facilities in the area. I have [...]
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Last week, by invitation of Jason Cole (author of Using Moodle), I attended the Moodle Moot in South San Francisco. The highlight was Martin Dougiamas’ keynote on Tuesday morning. He led the audience (around 225, I think) back to the origins of Moodle in 2001 (Moodle is a few years older than Sakai) and his [...]
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In case you didn’t see the announcement on the email lists, we’ve just enabled the “Sakai Faces” functionality on the conference website. If you’re registered for the confrence you can see a list of everyone else who is currently registered (except those that requested their information not be made available). You can update your profile, [...]
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I’ve met Jason Cole (author of Using Moodle) on a couple of occasions. He’s also attended at least one Sakai Conference and I’m sure many in the Sakai community know him. In any case, I saw Jason recently and he invited me to attend the upcoming Moodle Meeting (called a ‘Moot’) in San Francisco, which [...]
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In case you didn’t see the announcement on the email lists, the 2008 Sakai Fellows have been selected. We had a large set of qualified nominees, a real testament to the size, quality and diversity of the community.
In alphabetical order, the Sakai Fellows selected for 2008 are:
Alan Berg, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Nuno Fernandez, Universidade Fernando Pessoa
David [...]
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Saturday was the first (annual?) SF Bay Area Sakai BBQ, held at my house in Berkeley. About 30 folks showed up including, as you might expect, people from Berkeley, UC Davis and Stanford. Patty Sullivan from IBM was there as was Steve Schoen from Agilearn. We met a new member of the community, Stephen Ryan, [...]
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Sakai Courseware Management: The Official Guide is now available from Packt publishing. The publisher is paying a percentage of every book sold directly to the Sakai Foundation. And Alan and I are donating all royalties directly to the Sakai Foundation.
