Sakai Conference updates. Meeting on Friday: coup d'etat or nothing new? Confusion over independent release? Jan heard from Will and Sean. Sean said that OSP was being reclassified as a separate, "indy" project. Chuck Severance said that it is full of bugs. Have we been demoted to Contrib status? New adoptees could be put off if we're just contrib. Will heard from Chuck, who asked "What do you think of OSP being moved to Contrib." Noah yelled at them about this. Any reclassification of OSP has the possibility of sending the message that we've been demoted. Chuck is on the board, he shouldn't be making operational decisions. Problem that OSP isn't internationalized. There are several areas of OSP that have not been internationalized. There will be a summary about what the proposal is for independent release early this week.
Possible restructuring of this call? Should we have the functional perspective first, before the nuts and bolts. If people have specific proposals, email them to the list and we'll discuss them next week. Do we need more time, now that the Sakai 3 road map is in place with ambitious goals. After July 15th invite NYU to give a demo of their Sakai 3 work. Is biggest concern drawing more people/communities into the call, especially people working on Sakai 3. Switch off from week to week, functional first, then technical first.
Option for independent OSP release cycle? There are pros and cons. There will be an email going out with more details this week.
Switch back to video bridge or Adobe Connect for those outside of USA? Change the phone number. The video bridge gives priority to video over phone, so people were getting locked out. It is difficult for LOI to call out internationally, so Beth said she would look for an alternative. Adobe Connect is an option. Everyone would need to have a headset and microphone. Switching to purely VOIP is not something we should do lightly. Adobe Connect would allow us to record meetings.Whatever Marist used for T&L worked well. Should we give Adobe Connect a try? When two people are trying to talk, there is not interrupt function. You can have people raise their virtual hands. Keep voice and camera feed off until they are ready to talk.Beth will talk to Hugo about Skype v. Adobe Connect. When Hugo is ready to dial in, we can try out Adobe Connect.