Preliminary Reports
Alan Berg
I am in the midst of writing the official Sakai book co-authored with Michael Korcuska. This effort involves the writing of 100,000 words and interacting with around 50 members of the Sakai community. I have donated one working day of my own time and the University of Amsterdam donated 2 days per week.
Further, I have also supported a Software Engineering Master student, Johan Flint during his study of Sakai code quality. His defence of the thesis is in March. I expect to publish one or two papers on this subject later with Johan Flint and Charles Severance.
I am in the midst of negotiation tutoring of two more Software Engineering students. However, that effort has not been finalized. I wish to pursue the analysis of code quality and the automation of processes. However, due to the focus on the book I have only a minimal amount of time to do so.
I have been in discussion with UPMC (Paris) about collaborating on building a uPortal 3 to Sakai connection. This work is at an early stage.
I am also involved as a QA server admin. However, currently the work does not take much time up.
In the coming months, I hope to finish the book and back to automating processes.
David Horwitz
Not yet submitted.
Nuno Fernandes
- Development of SiteStats 2.0: a lot of changes have been made to accomplish what instructors typically desire. Most desired features are now available from start page and a lot of new features have been added. This have been the main goal over the last months;
- Participation on Sakai the community, as time permits:
- Reporting of new bugs
- Fixes/patches for existing bugs
- Localization of 2.6.x
- QA 2.6.x (as possible)
Beth Kirschner
I've continued my work supporting the OSP ePortfolio effort by leading weekly conference calls between at least eight institutions, facilitating requests, implementing/resolving enhancements and bugs. In the past 6 months, the ePortfolio group has leveraged Nathan Pearson's design work to revamp the portfolio tool, accept patches and fix numerous problems.
I've also continued my work with Sakai localization, facilitating requests, updating confluence pages, and leading internationalization workshops at the last Sakai conference. In the last 6 months, I've checked in two or three dozen bug fixes and translations including:
- Updates to Swedish, Arabic, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese translations
- New Basque and Traditional Chinese translations
Maggie Lynch
Not yet submitted.
Stephen Marquard
Not yet submitted.