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Sakai contributor profiles on Ohloh

By Anthony Whyte on Tue, 20 May 2008 01:26:36 GMT

There's a thread on the Sakai pedagogy list called "Content Authoring" that's morphed into a discussion regarding Sakai's relative openness as an open-source project.  During the exchange there was a mention of Ohloh by Chuck Severance which drew a response from one participant in the discussion asking to see richer Ohloh profiles of Sakai core/contrib committers.

Since we started enlisting Sakai projects on Ohloh, 71 core and 87 contrib contributors have been tracked (the latter group also contribute heavily to Sakai core projects).  Only a fraction of the profiles listed include any information beyond the basic developer X as represented by a portion of their email address has made Y commits since Month Z.

Creating an account permits developers to provide additional inform ... Read More »

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Gert Sibande College joins the Sakai Foundation

By Anthony Whyte on Fri, 09 May 2008 05:22:28 GMT

Gert Sibande College (GS), located in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa has joined the Sakai Foundation as a member institution following deployment of Sakai as GS’s enterprise collaboration and learning platform.  This is exciting news as Gert Sibande is both the first Sakai adoption and foundation member among Further Education and Training colleges (FET)—academic institutions that provide vocational and occupational training vital to South Africa's economic development.

Gert Sibande has campuses located in Ermelo, Evander, Mpuluzi and Standerton.  GS's Sakai installation is intended to serve all four locations, although bandwidth and connectivity issues—a general South African challenge at present—prevent full access to the system.  Nevertheless, the provisioning of course sites with content is now underway, faculty workshops ... Read More »

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