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Sakai Newport 2007: The State of the Union
Six months ago, following the Amsterdam conference, I was highly encouraged by some of the signs of progress I was seeing in the Sakai community. In an exchange with a commenter on that post, I wrote, The question I’m trying to answer in this blog post is, given these sorts of concerns, how much progress […]
Greetings from the Sakai Conference
The third post in my series on D2L’s competency system is going to have to wait a bit, since I am at the Sakai conference for the week. (I’ll try to finish it up after I return home and have had a chance to recover from my trip.) I’m not one for live-blogging, but I’ll […]
Usability Absolutely Does Matter for Adoption
Chris Coppola has a good post up regarding Sakai adoption. Chris, in turn, is responding to a comment from Trace Urdan in Education Signals: Sakai adoption is not meaningfully hampered by usability issues, but by obstacles to the risk/rewards of an open source solution to begin with. Wider Sakai adoption, we think, is more likely […]
More on Software Licenses and Patents
Since my last post, I’ve gotten some good feedback from folks who are knowledgeable about the issues. I hope to write about this topic in more detail after I’ve gotten back from EDUCAUSE and had some time to do a little more research, but in the meantime, I want to at least mention two of […]
Backward University IP Polices Force Convoluted Sakai License
A couple of weeks back, I was somewhat disturbed to read a post by Unicon’s John Lewis on the forthcoming Version 2.0 of the Educational Commons License (ECL), which is used by both the Sakai and the Kuali projects. While pointing out some significant improvements over the previous version, John notes correctly that the proliferation […]
Apparent Progress Toward a More Usable Sakai
Sakai has had some fairly serious usability problems since its inception. The development community has been aware of these problems for some time; however, the efforts toward improving the situation have been sporadic and fragile to date. Today, I’m happy to point to some tangible signs that this is changing, and that we have a […]