For Newcomers
- Former user (Deleted)
Documentation and Book
Please note that the unqualified term "documentation" often refers to the Release Notes, for deployment and development, rather than the user manuals and instructions sought by faculty.
See the public SakaiProject page for such documentation and for the Sakai Courseware book that serves as a comprehensive guide for all users.
Confluence Pages for Newcomers
New to Sakai? (Also mentioned below.)
A Quick Guide to the Sakai Community (retitled from "Getting Involved with the Sakai Community for Dummies," mentioned below)
Pages suggested in an e-mail discussion of Summer 2008:
From: Ellis, Richard rwellis@umich.edu
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 3:21 PM
To: markjnorton@earthlink.net
Cc: sakai-dev Developers; Sakai User; portfolio@collab.sakaiproject.org; pedagogy@collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: Why would anyone want to work on Sakai?
>I don't feel that Sakai is very welcoming of new comers. There isn't much in the way of support,
mentorship, or even ways to break in easily. (Mark Norton)
I don't know if it's helpful, but I took a shot at a "New to Sakai" page
http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=27807
Dick
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 08:59:10 -0400
From: "Plourde, Mathieu" <mathieu@udel.edu>
To: "'Ellis, Richard'" <rwellis@umich.edu>
Hi Richard,
I created a similar (but way less detailed) page for the Teaching and Learning group.
I agree that the barrier to entry is pretty high. I think the first issue we should tackle to get newbies
involved is to work on the Sakai project website. This is where most newbies will end up first, so it should
direct people to useful resources and be kept up to date as much as possible.
Best Regards,
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Mathieu Plourde, MBA
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 09:09:51 -0400
From: Anthony Whyte <arwhyte@umich.edu>
To: "Plourde, Mathieu" <mathieu@udel.edu>
Have a look at
http://oli-sakai.optimizedlearn.com/portal
It's the new sakaiproject.org site running as an instance of Sakai.
I've got a minor bit of tiding up to do on it relative to some pages
and I plan to add the timeline tool to record Sakai history. The UFP
newsfeed tool is not working at present but I plan to refresh the
code as soon as 2.5.2 is out the door.
It could also use a touch of imagination (and work) relative to its
graphical treatment but I think once we clean up a couple of pages we
could go live with it replacing the old Joomla instance.
Cheers,
Anth