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Sakai Newsletter October 15, 2009

Sakai NewsletterOctober 15, 20091.  From the Executive Director2.  Sakai 2.6.1 Released3.  Fluid Infusion 1.1.2 Released4.  Josh Baron's Article "Innovating Teaching and Learning with Sakai" Now Online5.  Thanks to the TWSIA Committee!6.  eLearning Africa 2010 -- The Call for Papers is Now Open!7.  Moving Along -- Antranig Basman8. Students Who Worked on the Sakai 2.6.1 - IBM's Websphere and DB2 Project in IBM Poster Competition9. Do You Have a LinkedIn Account? -- Join the Sakai Community Group There10. Information Regarding Deprecating Foundation Support for Older Sakai Versions11. Unicon to Address Technology Challenges of Exploding Enrollments in Community Colleges

Sakai 2.6.1 maintenance release available

Release Date: 15 October 2009

The Sakai 2.6.1 maintenance release provides a set
of bug fixes, language/locale updates and performance enhancements that
improve upon the Sakai 2.6.0 release. Over 200 issues have been
addressed by 2.6.1. Roughly half involve bug fixes while the remainder
involve textual updates to language translation property bundles. In
particular, important fixes have been applied to the assignment, chat,
portfolio, Tests & Quizzes and site-manage modules while updates
for Catalan, French, Russian, Spanish and Swedish translations have
also been provided.

[Invitation] Educause 2009 - Open Source Reception - please RSVP

Educause Open Source Reception

Please
join your colleagues in the open source communities of Sakai, Jasig,
Duraspace, and Kuali. This reception will give you an opportunity to
talk to colleagues from schools that may be considering joining these
communities and to learn more about the projects themselves.Please RSVP: <http://sakai.pingg.com/EducauseOS2009>

Search 1.2 beta01 released

Hi All,

The latest framework release ahead of 2.7 is the search service. Search
1.2-beta01 features:

Upgrade to the latest Lucene release (2.9.0) - SAK-17105
Store digested documents separately to index - SAK-16034
Use of POI to digest OOXML docs SAK-13752

A full list of fixes in the release can be seen here.

Sakai Kernel 1.1.0-beta03 released

Hi All,
Due to a problem with the 1.1.0-beta02 release, namely that the
test-harness artifacts where not included in the release I have perfomed
another release of the kernel - 1.1.0-beta04. This should be the only
difference between the 2 kernels. Please do not reference the beta02 kernel.
As always the release site can be found at:
http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/kernel/1.1.0-beta03/Regards
David
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2.7 Framework: commons and edu-servise 1.0.0-beta01 released

Hi All,

We're proud to announce the first of 2 framework releases in support of
the upcoming 2.7 release. The creation of these bundles aims to
rationalize our dependency tree and enable a more modular approach to
Sakai releases.

Commons 1.0.0-beta01
The commons package contains common services depended on by a
number of Sakai tools, but outside the scope of the Kernel. The
services included are:

SakaiPerson Service (profile data)
Type Service
privacy service
archive service
import service

The project site can be viewed at:
http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/common/1.0.0-beta01/

Sakai QA Director

I'm writing to let you know that as of December 18 Pete Peterson,  
currently Sakai QA Director, will be returning to his duties at UC  
Davis.
This will leave a vacancy on the Sakai staff. I'm using this moment to  
rethink the role to some degree at least. The QA process has typically  
benefitted from an individual paying close attention to the details of  
the many Jira issues and svn commits that make up the release. The  
volume of issues and attention to detail required are both relatively  
high. At the same time I also believe that we are ripe for a strategic  
rethinking of how we manage QA in Sakai and to help the community  
institute new processes and, especially, to implement a variety of  

Kernel 1.1.0-beta02 released

Kernel 1.1.0-beta02 has now been released. This is a technology preview
release aimed at supporting the upcoming 2.7 Sakai release.
Fixes since the beta01:
http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL/fixforversion/11613Highlights include:
SSL & TLS support in the email service (KNL-253 & KNL-253)
Test harness is now in kernel (KNL-288)
The site for this release can be found at:
http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/kernel/1.1.0-beta02/(note: experimental site so no Sakai specific skin etc)
David

Josh Baron's article "Innovating Teaching and Learning with Sakai" is now available online

Josh Baron's article is now available online at: http://bit.ly/2mdoL2Campus Technology Magazine "Innovating Teaching and Learning with Sakai"
Excerpted from Courseware Management: The Official Guide, By Josh
Baron, 10/14/09
"...It was from a desire among the Sakai Teaching and Learning
interest group to highlight and share these more inventive
applications that the Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award Program,
initially sponsored by IBM and the Sakai Foundation, was born. The
program is not aimed at identifying technically complex uses of Sakai
but rather to find those uses of the technology, even very simple
ones, which are driving true innovation in how instructors are

Sakai Foundation Bylaw revisions

The voting members of the Sakai Foundation recently approved amendments to the Fopundation Bylaws regarding the constitution of the Board of Directors, and removing the requirement that the Board approve conference chairs.
The change in the Board composition allows the Board itself to appoint up to 2 individuals to the Board.    * Any appointed Board member would serve 2 year terms.    * Any appointed Board member could serve up to 3 consecutive terms.
    * The total number of Board members would remain from 7 to 11 with no maximum on the number of elected members.