Caddywampus communication in Sakai
There was an OSP 2.4 planning session in Phoenix this week. Representatives from the University of Michigan, IUPUI (by phone), Virginia Tech, the University of Amsterdam, Portland State University, IBM, rSmart, ASU and Syracuse University attended the meeting where we spent two days looking at what would be in the scope of the OSP 2.4 release, due out in May 2007.
While Syracuse has meager resources to contribute to OSP’s next release, we will be doing some documentation and some XML development to create example forms and templates to ship with the software. I was pleased to see the value that many schools are finding in the Goal Aware Tools and that there was sufficient interest in them to get that tool set integrated into OSP. We have been happy to let them sit in the contrib area of confluence and subversion up until now, but as this round of grants wind down, it is a great to find a place for that to land. What a great way to disseminate!
I’ve done a fair amount of talking at each of the last three conferences, documented the effort in confluence and written it about it periodically here in this blog (aggregated at planetsakai). We have been doing this work for over a year. Even so, many schools probably will be surprised when they learn about this tool set and what it is intended to do.
During a brief tangent during our meeting, it was suggested that more community coordination is needed to raise awareness within the community about important developments. The comment spoke to the difficulty that the community has with existing sharing information with new members and new information with old members Even schools that are heavily involved in the Sakai community have a tough time keeping up with everything. The organization of information in mailing lists, confluence spaces, jira and the project web site makes it difficult for new developers, faculty and project leads to readily find the information they need. Those who have been in the community for a while acknowledge the problem, but have found ways to get the information they want. In a truly open source fashion, we acknowledge that it is a resource issue and that if someone has resources, talent and a will to change it, they can feel free to do so. I'd love to see some money be made available to make that happen.
While Syracuse has meager resources to contribute to OSP’s next release, we will be doing some documentation and some XML development to create example forms and templates to ship with the software. I was pleased to see the value that many schools are finding in the Goal Aware Tools and that there was sufficient interest in them to get that tool set integrated into OSP. We have been happy to let them sit in the contrib area of confluence and subversion up until now, but as this round of grants wind down, it is a great to find a place for that to land. What a great way to disseminate!
I’ve done a fair amount of talking at each of the last three conferences, documented the effort in confluence and written it about it periodically here in this blog (aggregated at planetsakai). We have been doing this work for over a year. Even so, many schools probably will be surprised when they learn about this tool set and what it is intended to do.
During a brief tangent during our meeting, it was suggested that more community coordination is needed to raise awareness within the community about important developments. The comment spoke to the difficulty that the community has with existing sharing information with new members and new information with old members Even schools that are heavily involved in the Sakai community have a tough time keeping up with everything. The organization of information in mailing lists, confluence spaces, jira and the project web site makes it difficult for new developers, faculty and project leads to readily find the information they need. Those who have been in the community for a while acknowledge the problem, but have found ways to get the information they want. In a truly open source fashion, we acknowledge that it is a resource issue and that if someone has resources, talent and a will to change it, they can feel free to do so. I'd love to see some money be made available to make that happen.
Anonymous:
Sean Keesler:
Indiana had an entire team of folks attending via phone and provided a breeze session. Thanks for the reminder.