St. Paul Project Coordination Meeting

A Sakai Project Coordination Meeting will be held in conjunction with the JA-SIG conference in St. Paul, MN. The meeting will take place after the JA-SIG conference, on Thursday and Friday, 1-2 May 2008; Thursday will be a full day, 9am-5pm, and Friday will be a partial day 9am-2pm in order to allow time for folks to fly home that evening.

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Agenda

If you have suggestions for appropriate agenda topics, please post them to the management list, or send them to the Project Coordinator (Former user (Deleted)).

Report outs on projects can serve as starting points for discussion topics, however, items that are just status updates on projects might be redirected to posts to the community, if we are time-limited.

Tentative Agenda:

9:00am - 9:30am (Room: Governors IV)

• Introductions
• Review Agenda

9:30am - 12:30pm (15-minute break in middle)

• Project Updates
  • Kernel Update (Former user (Deleted))
    • What is in the "kernel"?
    • When can/should it be released?
    • What plans are there for continuing with this effort?
  • Entity Broker (Former user (Deleted), Former user (Deleted))
  • Content Hosting Service and User Tools (e.g., Content Hosting Service, JCR, JSR-170, back-end to Resources, ...)
    • CHS (Former user (Deleted), Former user (Deleted))
    • 2.4 to 2.5 Migration Issues (Former user (Deleted))
    • JCR, JSR-170 (Former user (Deleted), Former user (Deleted))
    • Tools targeting JCR directly, instead of CHS (Former user (Deleted))
    • Resource Viewer/Content Viewer (Former user (Deleted))
  • Assignments2 (Former user (Deleted))
  • MyCamtools (Former user (Deleted))
    • development practices for building these tools
  • UX project (Former user (Deleted))

12:30pm - 1:30pm

• Lunch on your own.

1:30pm - 5:00pm (15-minute break in middle)

• Products and Project Management Thread
  • My Top 5 Priorities for the next release of Sakai (Former user (Deleted))
    • "Things I want", not necessarily "Things I'm working on." Can shared priorities be found?
    • 5 minutes per person
  • Exploration of new models which would provide resources to address priorities outside of institutional goals (e.g. how do we ever get around to normalizing all of the XML LOBs in the database when our faculty could care less about this?). (Former user (Deleted), Former user (Deleted))
  • Future of contrib-provisional-core track?
  • What would a stronger product management focus mean? Where what's included with the release might arise from a coherent product definition and trajectory rather than the sum of all things that developers have completed at a certain date.
  • Potential changes to the schedule that might come from releasing based on product goals rather than fixed dates?
  • QA (Former user (Deleted))
    • Possible changes to the sort of testing carried out during QA (e.g. performance testing as a standard matter?)
    • New position
    • Incorporating Static Code Review
    • Development of generic test environment
    • 2.5 Functional Test scripts

9:00am - 2:00pm (15-minute break in middle)

• Products and Project Management Thread (split group in to two tracks)
  • (track 1)Site Info
    • Who can contribute to the effort? what can they contribute?
    • What's the right way to re-factor it architecturally?
    • Focus for some of Sakai Foundation UX resources?
  • (track 2)Sakai Outreach – a continuing discuss on Sakai promotion/marketing efforts
  • (track 1)Content Authoring (e.g., Melete/Modules, Soussa, Sakaibrary SRG, Rich-Text Editor, Samigo, ePortfolio, ...) (Former user (Deleted), Former user (Deleted), Former user (Deleted))
  • (track 2) User Directory and Authentication integration. (Former user (Deleted))
    • Grouper

Postponed to mail lists, conference calls, and/or Paris Meeting?

• Large-scale Sakai issues - performance problems that come up when running Sakai with tens of thousands of users and thousands of sites; develop some best-practice guidelines for developers to leverage. (Former user (Deleted))
  • Will there be sufficient attendance for this topic? David Haines will not be attending. (If this topic is of interest to you, please let me know.)

Attendees

Please add your name to the list if you would like to come, indicating which aspects of this meeting you are most interested in. Also, please indicate whether you are attending or presenting at the JA-SIG Conference.