There’s a nice story on The Open Road about the increasing recognition major technology industry analysts (IDC, Forrester, Gartner) are paying to open source. It’s worth a read.
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Sakai Release Process Proposal
Posted on July 30, 2009 by Michael Korcuska
Clay Fenlason, the newly installed Sakai Product Manager, has been busy. Following conversations at the 10th Sakai Conference, he has drafted a release process proposal, which focuses on the release process for 2.x over the next 10-12 months. From an email on July 24th, Clay says:
My plan is to continue to develop/refine this proposal with [...]
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Proposed Sakai Foundation By-law Changes
Posted on July 29, 2009 by Michael Korcuska
The Sakai Foundation Board of Directors is proposing two changes to the existing by-laws. To change the by-laws we need to circulate the proposed changes to the community for 30 days of commentary. In addition, for one of the changes we need approval of the Sakai Foundation Membership.
You can read all about the changes and [...]
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End game in Bb-D2L patent fight?
Posted on July 27, 2009 by Michael Korcuska
So Blackboard has lost another battle in its patent war with Desire2Learn. The original patent claims been invalidated by the USPTO and the courts and yet, at the same time, there are still four other fronts open (see the good summary on D2L patent blog).
As things move forward, the question increasingly becomes “what is Blackboard [...]
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Sakai 2.6.0 Released!
Posted on July 27, 2009 by Michael Korcuska
I’m very pleased to announce that Sakai 2.6.0 is now officially available! Source, binary and demo distributions are available for download. For more information on what’s included in the release, see the release summary (in powerpoint) and the documentation page (in its fancy new format!).
This release is the second time we’ve taken Sakai through a [...]
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Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA)
Posted on July 17, 2009 by Michael Korcuska
Last year the Sakai Teaching and Learning Community establiblished the Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA). This year the second set of winners were announced at the 10th Sakai Conference in Boston. A big thanks go to the award sponsors: IBM, rSmart and John Wiley & Sons. The Sakai Foundation also provides financial support to [...]
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10th Sakai Conference Highlights
Posted on July 14, 2009 by Michael Korcuska
I just got back to Berkeley after an amazing week in Boston at the 10th Sakai Conference. It was an exhausting week for me, starting with Project Cooridnation meetings on Monday, a Sakai Foundation Board meeting on Tuesday, the Newcomer’s Reception Tuesday evening, the main conference and associated receptions and dinners from Wednesday – Friday [...]
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Ian Boston named Sling Committer
Posted on July 13, 2009 by Michael Korcuska
One of the fundamental “cultural” ethos behind the Sakai 3 effort is to adopt other open source projects (and work with their communities) when we could rather than writing our own code. To make this work, of course, we need have reasonable confidence that the future direction of any of these projects is compatible with [...]
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10th Sakai Conference Content Sharing
Posted on July 9, 2009 by Michael Korcuska
If you’re not already following (or contributing to!) the amazing outpouring of videos, pictures, slides and especially tweets from the 10th Sakai Conference in Boston, just check out the Sakai Conference Social Networking and Content Sharing information page.
That’s all….
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Sakai Foundation New Staff Members
Posted on July 7, 2009 by Michael Korcuska
As a result of a strategic review of its goals and activities, the Sakai Foundation has recently introduced some important changes to the Sakai Development Process. The introduction of this process and an examination of the role the Sakai Foundation should play in supporting the community resulted in the creation of two new staff positions: [...]
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