Sakai OAE design

I am very pleased to announce that Alan Marks will join the Sakai Foundation staff as project director for the Sakai 3 project. Alan’s hire is an important milestone for the project and for our community.

I am very pleased to be able to share an important update with the Sakai community regarding the ongoing efforts to create a flexible migration path from Sakai 2 to Sakai 3. I have been blogging recently [1] [2] about the development of a new Basic LTI widget for Sakai 3.

Last week we kicked off a new project to bring the next generation of Sakai software, Sakai 3, to full production release. I'll post information about the project in formal channels. In this forum, I'd like to share my thoughts about the effort.

David Goodrum asked me to provide an update to the Oncourse Priorities Committee [1] regarding the progress made towards Sakai 2->3 integration and migration. In doing so, it became clear that this kind of update might also be useful to the community at large.

I am happy to provide you with a status update on the progress that has been made since the previous post: Sakai 2+3 Hybrid pre-alpha. I think you will be most pleased with the outcomes and in many ways provides a better user experience than what is available in the Sakai 2 portal! The speed at which you can switch between tools is quite amazing. Check it out:

Christian posted this update to the Sakai  User Experience and Developer mail lists. Exciting progress on Hybrid mode...

"I assume that you've all seen the video from Lance [1] which showed some of the work we've done on the Sakai 2+3 hybrid mode. During the last few weeks we've made some changes which should make the overall experience better for the user."

This video gives you the first glimpse of the hybrid integration between Sakai 2 and Sakai 3. This is a very early look and is not showing finished product, but instead enough of the user interface to begin real discussion and refinement. Many thanks to: Ian Boston, Paul Bristow, Oszkar Nagy, Christian Vuerings.

I think I've (mostly) successfully rebalanced my Sakai time in the way I think I need to. My two main priorities are

In order to realize the integration of both Sakai 2 and Sakai 3, and sharing functionality between them, the following progress has been made: