[Educause 2003] Sakai
Yesterday the University of Michigan, MIT, Universit of Indiana, Stanford, and the uPortal consortium announced a major new effort called Sakai.
The participating institutions intend to integrate and synchronize the software and specifications that have grown out of the Open Knowledge Initiative, the CHEF project at Michigan, and the uPortal framework. The intent is to coalesce this effort around the newly ratified JSR168 spec for Java portlets.
This could turn out to be a major advance for open source course tools, and one which we'll be following closely. Our major problem at the moment is how to take advantage of this effort in our current, Perl-based environment for the UW's Catalyst tools - and generalizing from this, how to open up this effort to developers working in non-J2EE environments.
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