Getting Involved in Sakai Peter A. Knoop Project Coordinator Sakai Foundation/University of Michigan 8th Sakai Conference4-7 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 – Lists – Multiple Audiences – Sakai Newsletter – Building Sakai – – Using Sakai – – Deploying Sakai – – Multiple Audiences –

Where to get started? Following Sakai… Overviews: – Project Summary Tables Roadmaps Directory of Activities Detailed Information: – Confluence spaces (Wiki) – Collab sites ( Archives) – Jira

Project Summary Tables

Roadmaps

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 List “Moderators” – Summarizing list traffic – Guiding 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 QA – Megan May Information Architecture – Anthony Whyte

What are your skills and how can we help you put them to use? Design – DG: User Interaction (User Experience) – – Develop – DG: Sakai Development – QA/Testing -- WG: QA – – Document – WG: Documentation – User Support – DG: User – Graphic Artist – Icons, Images, etc. for Sakai, Website, Conference logos, Hosting – QA Servers – Sakai Foundation Servers Other… – Project Coordinator:

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