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At some later point, when you become comfortable with the standard tools, you may wish to see other, more experimental tools that are available for Sakai. The Sakai distribution includes provisional tools that are still maturing, but can already serve needs in innovative ways that the standard ones do not. These extra tools require additional steps to enable, so that system users will not stumble across them inadvertently if that's not desired, but you are encouraged to evaluate them for your own deployment.
Where to Learn More
User information has yet to be fully consolidated. Attempts are underway to gather and present this information in a more uniform way but in the interim a tourist's guide of the landmarks may be in order.
About the Project
The sakaiproject.org site offers the best background and orientation to the project and its goals, but chances are you've already seen it. For more particular information on the progress and roadmaps of certain tools or other initiatives, see the relevant Confluence spaces.
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The four main Sakai community lists are:
Announcements (announcements@collab.sakaiprojectannouncements@apereo.org) - items of community-wide interest in Apereo, including Sakai (receive newsletter every two weeksnewsletters; learn about conferences and deadlines; follow general progress on upcoming releases; partipipate participate in calls for community input). A low-volume, read-only list, which everyone should join.
Building Sakai (sakai-dev@collab.sakaiproject.org) - designing, developing, testing, and documenting Sakai (learn about the technical details of building tools or integrating services; find guidelines for design and development of tools and services; locate technical specifications; learn about plans for future releases). For designers, programmers, developers, and quality assurance.
Using Sakai (sakai-user@collabPedagogy (pedagogy@collab.sakaiproject.org) - teaching and learning, collaboration, and other uses of Sakai (learn about best practices; share experiences; connect with user communities with similar interests, K-12, Higher-Ed, Portfolios). For teachers, staff, students, researchers, instructional designers, instructional technologists and end-user support staff.
Deploying Sakai (production@collab.sakaiproject.org) - implementing, installing, configuring, and supporting Sakai (find release documentation; learn about performance tuning; browse suggested hardware and software configurations; share examples of training, tutorial and support materials). For sysadmins, DBAs, and technical support staff.
There are also a vareity variety of smaller, topic-specific working groups that use email lists, which you may also find of interest as you get more involved with the community.
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