Paris 28-29 June 2008

Paris Project Coordination Meeting

The Paris Project Coordination Meeting will be held 9AM-6PM, Saturday and Sunday, 28-29 June 2008, at the conference hotel, the Marriott Paris Rive Gauche Hotel and Conference Center. This meeting provides an opportunity for those directly invested in Sakai development to share their progress and plans and to discuss and address issues that reach across multiple project areas in Sakai.

We have two rooms set aside, the primary room is Les Invalides, and the second room for breakouts is Saint Germain des Prés (hotel floor plans).

If you are planning on attending, please add your name to the Attendee list below by Monday, 2 June 2008.

  • Agenda
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Agenda

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We will be meeting 9AM-6PM, Saturday and Sunday. A selection of beverages will be provided for the mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks, however, you will be on your own for lunch and dinner. Please note that a full breakfast is included in the conference rate for rooms at the conference hotel. There is a restaurant and bar on-site in the hotel as well as nearby restaurant options for lunch.


Saturday

Time Topic 1 (Saint Germain des Prés) Topic 2 (Les Invalides)
9:00 – 10:45 General Session
  • Introductions and Agenda Review
  • Note taking and community communication
  • Project Updates (5-10 mins!)
    • UX Initiative
    • Fluid
    • Kernel
    • MySakai
    • Assignment 2
    • Gradebook
    • Entity Broker
    • Static code review
    • Security
N/A
10:45 – 11:00 Break Break
11:00 – 12:00 Release timelines and goals for 2.6 and beyond
  • This is not intended to be a "Forever for Sakai" discussion.
  • It is intended to define the major activities for the next 12 - 18 months.
N/A
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch on your own Lunch on your own
1:30 – 3:00 M & M releases after 2.5.1 (Notes):
  • How can we manage maintenance branch bug fixes to streamline release process?
  • Small functional additions that would come out in "rapid" succession (minor releases)
Kernel 1 and 2 (Notes):
  • Working/discussion group for K1 and K2 scope and possible timelines.
3:00 – 3:30 Break Break
3:30 – 5:00 Provisional/Contrib/Core (Background and Pre-Conference Discussion) (Treated as a follow-on to morning's release discussion, see Notes there.)
  • What are the goals of these distinctions? Do they serve us well today?
Previously "Large Scale Sakai". This was moved to Sunday to continue Kernel discussion.
5:00 – 5:30 Brief summary and revise agenda for Sunday N/A

Sunday

Time Topic 1 (Saint Germain des Prés) Topic 2 (Les Invalides)
9:00 – 10:00
  • Summarize Saturday sessions
  • Intro new folks
 
10:00 – 10:30 Break Break
10:30 – 12:00 Beyond 2.6 (Notes)
  • A working group for major functional priorities for the next major release.
Subversion & Maven (Notes)
  • mSub proposal
  • Release versioning (M2, SNAPSHOT, etc.)
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch on your own Lunch on your own
1:30 – 3:00 Content/Page Authoring
  • Demos of current tools, discussion of how to move forward.
Static Code Review/Large-scale Sakai Background and Pre-Conference Discussion
  • Discussion and action plan on static code review
3:00 – 3:30 Break Break
3:30 – 4:15 Archive/Delete/Export/Import (Discussion postponed to BOF.)
  • Requirements definition and use cases for this category of functionality.
Internationalization (Notes)
  • Working group for internationalization priorities.
4:15 – 5:30 Final gathering. Scheduling of BOFs during conference. N/A

Attendees

Anyone that is a Sakai partner is welcome to observe the meeting, however, space is limited. If we run out of room, we may have to ask those not directly invested in the active discussion topics to entertain themselves otherwise (a trip to the Louvre?)

# Name Affiliation Project (s) Days
1 Peter A. Knoop Sakai Foundation, and
University of Michigan
Sakai Project Coordinator Both
2 Jim Eng University of Michigan Many things content hosting related
3 Anthony Whyte Sakai Foundation / University of Michigan release management among other topics Both
4 Lance Speelmon Indiana University Product management, Framework release
5 David Haines University of Michigan release management, Large Scale Sakai, incremental patch and feature releases Both
6 Raúl E. Mengod López Univ. Polit. Valencia Large Scale Sakai, ContentAuthoring Sunday
8 Stephen Marquard University of Cape Town Polls, Help, QA Both
9 David Horwitz University of Cape Town 2-5-x branch manager, Polls, Reset Password, QA
10 Michael Korcuska Sakai Foundation content authoring, process issues Both
11 John A. Lewis Unicon Sakora Both
12 Ray Davis U. California, Berkeley Component Management, Providers, Testing, Fluid Both
13 Ryan Lowe Indiana University Gradebook, Assignments2, Feed
14 Lydia Li Stanford University Samigo Both
15 Michael Feldstein
Oracle Just a groupie
16 Daphne Ogle U. California, Berkeley
Fluid
17 Mark J. Norton Nolaria Consulting Sousa Sat. maybe Sun.
18 Jean-François Lévêque (old account) U. Pierre et Marie Curie Sakai enthousiast Both
19 Michelle Wagner Indiana University Gradebook, Messages & Forums, Assignment2 most of Sat., Sunday
20 Stuart Freeman Georgia Tech Assignment2, BlogWow  
21 Carl Hall Georgia Tech Assignment2, Mailtool  
22 Megan May Sakai Foundation / Indiana University Release Mgmt, QA Both
23 Shoji Kajita Nagoya University I18n and L10n
24 Ryuichi Matsuba Kumamoto University I18n and L10n
25 Hiroshi Nakano Kumamoto University I18n and L10n
26 Beth Kirschner University of Michigan I18n/L10n, ePortfolio/OSP Sat., maybe Sun.
27 Jess Mitchell Fluid Fluid Both
28 Seth Theriault Columbia University Large Scale Sakai, mSub, QA servers Both
29 Linda M Place University of Michigan QA - Performance Testing Both
30 Kevin M. Brokamp Indiana University UX most of Sat., Sunday
31 Oliver Heyer UC Berkeley Fluid, TBD Both
32 Nathan Pearson Sakai Foundation UX Improvement Sunday Only
33 John Norman University of Cambridge Product Roadmap Both
34 Alan Berg University of Amsterdam QA, Static code review Sunday
35 Jason Shao CampusEAI Consortium   most of Sat., Sunday
36 Ian Boston University of Cambridge   Both
37 Steven Githens Caret, Cambridge   Both
38 Colin Clark University of Toronto Fluid Both
39 Clay Fenlason Georgia Tech   Sat. afternoon, all Sunday
40 Noah Botimer University of Michigan ePortfolio/OSP, content authoring, tool interop Both
41 Robert Gérin-Lajoie
Université de Montréal - Sakai Québec
  Both
42 Kirk Alexander University of California, DAvis Gradebook, SCORM Both
43 Nicolaas Matthijs CARET, University of Cambridge UX Improvement Both
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