Anthony Whyte's blog

December 2009 was a short but productive month. I worked with the Karen Tsao (Stanford) on Test & Quizzes, Nuno Fernandes (Universidade Fernando Pessoa) on SiteStats, Megan May (Indiana) on Messages and Forums, Chuck Severance (Michigan) on BasicLTI and Steve Swinsburg (Australian National University) on Profile2/profile classic. My contribution involved refactoring each project's Maven pom files and adding an assembly module in order to automate the generation of stable tags and binaries.

A number of Sakai Community members are participating in the formation of a Sakai maintenance team in order to better address issues in the Sakai code base as well as provide a mechanism by which institutions can reclaim a portion of their development resources after the delivery of production-ready code. Insitutional contributions involve pledging a named contributor or a set of hours for a specified period of time.

Occasionally, people wonder what the Sakai Foundation staff do in support of the Sakai Community.  Below is a summary of my work since the Sakai Conference held in Boston in July 2009: