1. Getting Involved in Sakai Peter A. Knoop Project Coordinator Sakai Foundation/University of Michigan 8th Sakai Conference4-7 December 2007Newport Beach

2. 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.

3. Where to get started? Participate in the Community Project Teams – Designers – Developers – Documenters – Testers Working Groups Discussion Groups

4. Where to get started? Following Sakai… Website – http://sakaiproject.org http://sakaiproject.org Email Lists (…@collab.sakaiproject.org) – Multiple Audiences – announcements@… Sakai Newsletter – Building Sakai – sakai-dev@... – Using Sakai – sakai-user@... – Deploying Sakai – production@... – Multiple Audiences – openforum@...

5. Where to get started? Following Sakai… Overviews: – Project Summary Tables Roadmaps Directory of Activities Detailed Information: – Confluence spaces (Wiki) http://confluence.sakaiproject.org – Collab sites (Email Archives) http://collab.sakaiproject.org – Jira http://jira.sakaiprojet.org

6. Project Summary Tables

7. Roadmaps

8. Activity Directory

9. http://confluence.sakaiproject.org

10. http://collab.sakaiproject.org

11. Got Skills? Got Time? Got Work! “Traditional” strengths of the community – Design – Development Community is expanding…

12. Got Skills? Got Time? Got Work! Project Teams – Documentation and Specifications Sakaipedia Editors – Contribute – Update – Archive Documentation Editors – Sakai Sys Admin Guide

13. Got Skills? Got Time? Got Work! Virtual User-Support Community – Answer (and post) questions on the lists – Dev, Production, User Email List “Moderators” – Summarizing email list traffic – Guiding email traffic to best list (e.g., from sakai- dev to production)

14. Got Skills? Got Time? Got Work! Information Architecture – Website – Conference website – Collab – Confluence – Jira

15. 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

16. 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

17. Where do I start? Who should I talk to? Peter Knoop (knoop@umich.edu)knoop@umich.edu QA – Megan May (mmmay@indiana.edu)mmmay@indiana.edu Information Architecture – Anthony Whyte (arwhyte@umich.edu)arwhyte@umich.edu

18. What are your skills and how can we help you put them to use? Design – DG: User Interaction (User Experience) – sakai-dg-ui@collab.sakaiproject.org sakai-dg-ui@collab.sakaiproject.org – http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/UI http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/UI Develop – DG: Sakai Development – sakai-dev@collab.sakaiproject.org sakai-dev@collab.sakaiproject.org QA/Testing -- WG: QA – sakai-qa@collab.sakaiproject.org sakai-qa@collab.sakaiproject.org – http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/QA http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/QA Document – WG: Documentation – sakai-user@collab.sakaiproject.org sakai-user@collab.sakaiproject.org User Support – DG: User – user@collab.sakaiproject.org user@collab.sakaiproject.org Graphic Artist – Icons, Images, etc. for Sakai, Website, Conference logos, Hosting – QA Servers – Sakai Foundation Servers Other… – Project Coordinator: knoop@umich.eduknoop@umich.edu

19. How Teaching Ideas and Collaboration Needs Become Sakai Tools and Services ImageQuiz Sparkline