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An initial open discussion regarding Sakai 11 priorities was held at the Phoenix Apero Camp, 29 January 2014.  A straw man list of proposed improvements and changes surfaced during the discussion is outlined below.  Contributors are encouraged to add/edit items to the list.  However, no item below should be considered a Sakai 11 deliverable until firm development commitments are secured.

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New/Enhanced Capabilities

Specifications Compliance

• LTI 2.0+ grading and roster services - IMS spec not yet done
• LTI 2.0+ service registry for internal services
• LTI 2.1 - Likely will make Sakai 11
• IMS Sensor API (Caliper Framework) - IMS Spec not done
• IMS CC 1.3 (actually in 10.1)

Proposed Deprecations/Removals

• OSP / Warehouse / Metaobj - Deleted for 11
• PDA Portal - Deleted for 11
• Remove all "standalone" code Gradebook - Done for 11
• Remove all "standalone" code in Samigo - Not yet done
• Remove axis web services - Done for 11
• Remove XSLT portal SAK-29179 - Done for 11
• Remove support for HSQLDB 1.8.

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   Some tools currently aren't working with this old version and nightly is still running it, new nightly will be just Oracle and MySQL. It's possible H2 or HSQLDB 2 could be used in it's place

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  but old .sql scripts (mostly in kernel) wouldn't be useful. 
  • Leave unit tests for now, ideally upgrade these.

Uncertain status

• rWiki (stealth); uncertain status. General consensus is to keep rWiki alive through Sakai 11 but this may take some work.
  • Based on Apereo Wiki BOF there will be an investigation of possible integration of xWiki with Sakai.

Infrastructure Changes

• Transition from SVN to Git; host repos at Github (Summer 2014); single sakai "core" repo;
•  Contrib projects encouraged to migrate but not a hard requirement

Stretch goals

• Project Keitai Phase 2
• LTI resource picker button for CkEditor (csev)
• Gradebook rubrics
• Consistent gradebook linking between tools
• Grading: new front-end (NYU) - Done for 11
• Portfolio: Karuta services
• Tomcat standard deployment - no volunteer currently per Sakai core team 10/30/2014. 
• Google calendar integration (UMich) - available as a Contrib tool.
• Forums: tool simplification - NYU has interest but not a priority at the moment. 
• Integration: Google Groups and Drive - affects resources and Settings > Manage Groups (NYU) (aiming for Sakai 12)
•   rWiki: Perl conversion script to replacement wiki - This is intended as conversion scripts to move content, but we do not have a new wiki defined yet. 
• Events: refine event tracking for enhanced analytics. Nobody assigned yet.
• Embed forum topics across Sakai - Does this mean that entity picker allows you to go directly to the Forum? Do we have this already in Sakai 10 (needs to investigate).
• Students have access to their own activity in Statistics - nobody expressing much interest on Sakai core team call 10/30/2014. 
• Add support for PostgreSQL? MySQL and Oracle both owned by the same company. (Lots of great, promising MySQL forks though)  . Seems very unlikely. MariaDB seen as risk mitigation.

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• Select multiple files / folders and download to desktop as a.zip (

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•   Connect to cloud file storage like Google Drive, Dropbox, S3 from Resources   
• Thumbnail view of Resources that are Images - currently not planned for 11 - Steve Swinsburg 11/3/2014 .

• "Search (this site)" box at top of portal so it shows on every page  

• Improve groups management to allow people to paste in group memberships
•   Exploit Entity Broker interfaces by writing plugins for CK Editor, eg, resource listing widget, embed poll in iframe widget. Might be worth revisiting per Sakai core team meeting 10/30/2014.  start from another open source picker project and add entities.
•   Filter out duplicate events in the collated view of a user's calendars in My Workspace (esp. term dates)
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  ) URL as a student submission type to Assignments - ie. Submit a domain of somene's own as the assignment artifact http://something.com or a journal/blog post http://mfeldstein.com/villanova-distance-learning-task-force-attribution/
• Add calculated itemized marking rubric to Assignments' Supplement Items
• allow assignments to be set with no close and accept until date
• allow anonymous posting to forums, ie, don't display poster's name
• allow 'my active site' list to be reordered using drag and drop OR make most accessed sites appear at the top, ie, rank the list. Already exists? (per Sakai core team meeting 10/30/2014). 
• help with printing iframe - place printer icon at top of iframe. Still may be an issue after iFrame removal. Printer specific CSS. investigation needed. Could be a useful feature for Sakai 11. 
• Option for watermarks in Samigo for forensics on sharing screenshot'ed questions. If resources available, sure. However not seeming to be a priority based on Sakai core team meeting 10/30/2014. 
• D3 http://d3js.org/ into Forums tool instead of SNAPP - Changed from SNAPP since Java Applets are no longer a good idea.  From Sakai core team notes 10/23/14.
  
  

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