1. Sakai Special Interest Group NL December 5th, 2007 Newport Beach, CA http://sakai-nl.blogspot.com http://sakai-nl.blogspot.com Dutch Sakai SIG

2. What is Sakai SIG NL? Informal community, started in July 2006, hosted by SURF Foundation Coordinator (1 day/week) ~ 6 meetings annually Work plan: communication, PR, exchange of experiences, shared roadmap, facilitating networking, localization of software Website / weblog: just to inform those that do not know (yet)

3. Meetings In Utrecht, @ SURF Foundation Usually ~15 attendants Education Institutions and commercial companies ‘Fixed’ agenda items: –Round table of participating organisations –Presentations of Pilots, Production environments –Sakai related announcements

4. Sakai at our institutions Education University of Amsterdam (Sakai & OSP) University of Utrecht (evaluating Sakai) Saxion (Piloting Sakai) Hotel school The Hague (Piloting Sakai Leidse Onderwijs Instellingen (LOI) Academia Vitae Lib Arts (evaluating Sakai) > 20 community colleges (!!)

5. Sakai at our institutions Commercial Portfolio4u (OSP) A new spring (Sakai ASP, development) Stoas (Sakai OSP) Edia (Sakai tools, development) Omix (Sakai ASP, development) Koopal Advies (Consultancy)

6. Dutch facts and figures VLE in primary and secondary education: very fragmented market Higher Ed: large market share of Blackboard (~ 50 %), plus local players HE: Total of ~60 institutions, 500 k students Within HE: some 3-5 institutions that are evaluating Sakai Commercial interests in Sakai, high activity and production

7. Results Sakai SIG NL –QA (UvA) – Localization & Internationalization (I18N & L10N) –General requirements for tools –Requirements and standards for OSP –European (Dutch) requirements: Bologna, Lisbon –PR, workshops & seminars by SIG –Cooperation between commercials and educational institutions (!) –Some tool development

8. Sakai SIG NL – open issues Tool localization Convincing decision makers to adopt to Sakai O.S.

9. Challenges Sakai SIG NL ‘Hesitation’ for O.S. in Higher Ed. Management Legacy VLE’s STRONG competition of MS Sharepoint The role of Surf Foundation…(Financing and Microsoft Promotion) Resources: Finding dedicated Sakai- professionals 2 nd ‘big’ university choosing Sakai

10. What’s next Check out: –http://sakai-nl.blogspot.comhttp://sakai-nl.blogspot.com –Wiki: http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/dis play/EUROSAKAI/Home http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/dis play/EUROSAKAI/Home –Collab: DG: Euro SakaiDG: Euro Sakai Let’s talk: leave your business card / email address