### Sakai Framework - whats good and bad about it.

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Using CamTools / Sakai - some thoughts

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### Meetings

We intend to have 6 1 hour meetings over the next 2 weeks ( 21/11/2005 - 5/12/2005) to develop the thought process and messages. You are encouraged to contribute and think about the issues we uncover.

- MondayMeeting20051121-1400
- TuesdayMeeting20051122-1600
- ThursdayMeeting20051124-1400

### For Monday 28 Nov

Compelling arguments for each of

- UCSCIO
- UCS Developers/Implementors
- UCS Support Staff
- Departmental COs
- Research Communities in the University
- Teaching Communities in the University
- Caret
- Intro to Sakai - overview of sakai from the perspective of a reasonable technical person in educational IT. Mainly because of Ian Lewis' visit tomorrow. In the (rough) form of a presentation, though not intended to be delivered as such!

### Why Sakai

### Why Spring

### Why Hibernate

### Why SOA

### Other Notes

What early adopters say about CamTools

Carol Dippel's thoughts re Sakai QA

### Tasks

We need to address the 'free' cam access issue - yes, students can attend any lecture, but does this translate to allowing everyone to see everything (including other student's discussions or first draft Wiki)? This should be agreed at a University level, and not be agreed by default by the University Computing Services, CARET or whoever has technical permissions. Oxford's report on why they chose Bodington gave 'open access by default' and the ability 'to edit permissions by individual' (i.e. not 'pigeonhole' people in roles), as major reasons for choosing Bodington over commercial VLEs.

How does this fit with Phytopedia's request for release dates on Wiki pages?

HT Having said all this, I (an ex-Eng Lit student) have just spent a happy half-hour on the Phytopedia site finding out how plants survive in deserts. If things go the way of Phytopedia, I wonder if we will eventually end up with a wonderful academic resource which should be available to university members in the spirit of academic enquiry. I agree that students discussions or first drafts aren't in this category, but I think that perhaps lecture notes should be.

RW but teaching staff, esp hourly-paid ones, may assert rights over their material. Also, breaches of copyright would become much more visible. This is a bigger battle....

HT very true, Rhiannon, and I think we need to contemplate both of these. I wonder whether the Wiki needs some sort of 'copyright' note on it?

Have we come to a decision on this? We do need to!

Current problem: on following a link to a specific page (not main login page) eg wiki page, user is directed straight to Raven without any way of logging in as Friend. IB thinks it might be possible to direct user by cancel mechanism from raven to friends login.

Wiki Home page for the new rwiki development site

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