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Getting Involved in Sakai
Peter A. KnoopProject Coordinator
Sakai Foundation/University of Michigan
8th Sakai Conference 4-7 December 2007Newport Beach
Foundation and Community
• Sakai Foundation – Focus is coordination– 2008 Goals• Create the highest quality core software• Seek to engage new members of the community
• Sakai Community– Focus is the work– Volunteers designing, developing, testing,
documenting, using, supporting, collaborating, etc.
Where to get started? Participate in the Community
• Project Teams– Designers– Developers– Documenters– Testers
• Working Groups• Discussion Groups
Where to get started?Following Sakai…
• Website– http://sakaiproject.org
• Email Lists (…@collab.sakaiproject.org)– Multiple Audiences – announcements@…• Sakai Newsletter
– Building Sakai – sakai-dev@...– Using Sakai – sakai-user@...– Deploying Sakai – production@...– Multiple Audiences – openforum@...
Where to get started?Following Sakai…
• Overviews:– Project Summary Tables
• Roadmaps• Directory of Activities
• Detailed Information:– Confluence spaces (Wiki)
• http://confluence.sakaiproject.org– Collab sites (Email Archives)
• http://collab.sakaiproject.org– Jira
• http://jira.sakaiprojet.org
Activity Directory
Got Skills? Got Time? Got Work!
• “Traditional” strengths of the community– Design– Development
• Community is expanding…
Got Skills? Got Time? Got Work!
• Project Teams– Documentation and Specifications
• Sakaipedia Editors– Contribute– Update– Archive
• Documentation Editors– Sakai Sys Admin Guide
Got Skills? Got Time? Got Work!
• Virtual User-Support Community– Answer (and post) questions on the lists– Dev, Production, User
• Email List “Moderators” – Summarizing email list traffic– Guiding email traffic to best list (e.g., from sakai-
dev to production)
Got Skills? Got Time? Got Work!
• Information Architecture– Website– Conference website– Collab– Confluence– Jira
Got Skills? Got Time? Got Work!
• Fluid Project– Integrate components into your tools– Help with UX walkthroughs– Accessibility testing– User research– Contribute to vision for post-funding phase
Got Skills? Got Time? Got Work!
• QA– Develop Integration/unit tests– Jira bug verification– Develop use cases – Run through use cases– Help with testing documentation– Automated testing– Load testing– Local deployment testing– QA Servers
Where do I start?Who should I talk to?
• Peter Knoop (knoop@umich.edu)• QA– Megan May (mmmay@indiana.edu)
• Information Architecture– Anthony Whyte (arwhyte@umich.edu)
What are your skills and how can we help you put them to use?
• Design – DG: User Interaction (User Experience)– sakai-dg-ui@collab.sakaiproject.org– http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/UI
• Develop – DG: Sakai Development– sakai-dev@collab.sakaiproject.org
• QA/Testing -- WG: QA– sakai-qa@collab.sakaiproject.org– http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/QA
• Document – WG: Documentation– sakai-user@collab.sakaiproject.org
• User Support – DG: User– user@collab.sakaiproject.org
• Graphic Artist– Icons, Images, etc. for Sakai, Website, Conference logos,
• Hosting– QA Servers– Sakai Foundation Servers
• Other…– Project Coordinator: knoop@umich.edu
How Teaching Ideas and Collaboration Needs Become Sakai Tools and Services
• ImageQuiz• Sparkline