Hola,
Per qui ho desconegui, Sakai �s un projecte de creaci�
d'una plataforma de gesti� de l'aprenentatge (campus virtual)
de lliure distribuci�.
El projecte va ser fundat pel MIT, l'Open Knowledge Initiative i
les universitats d'Stanford, Michigan i Indiana. Ara mateix hi
ha altres 70 universitats apuntades, entre d'altres la de lleida,
on ens hem encarregat de fer la internacionalitzaci�.
Crec que �s una bona not�cia.
Salutacions,
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David Barroso Iglesias david at asic.udl.es
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�rea de sistemes d'Informaci� i Comunicacions
Universitat de Lleida
Information and Communications Systems Service
University of Lleida
P�a. V�ctor Siurana,1 25003 Lleida
Tlfn: 34 973 702040
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FYI
April 26, 2005
Contact: Nancy Connell, (734) 764-7260, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*IBM joins educational open-source Sakai Project
*ANN ARBOR---The Sakai Project and IBM announced Tuesday that IBM has
become a Sakai Commercial Affiliate (SCA).
IBM will contribute to the development of the Sakai code and help in the
rapid commercial adoption of Sakai. IBM also will work on standards
development and provide products and services based on open-source Sakai
software.
The Sakai Project is an open-source project that is building and
releasing online course management, collaboration and research team
support software. The project involves more than 70 schools around the
world. The Sakai software is currently running in production at the
University of Michigan and Indiana University and is running in pilots
at a number of others. The 2.0 version of the Sakai Collaboration and
Learning Environment (CLE) will be released around the same time as the
June 8-10 Sakai Conference in Baltimore.
The Sakai Commercial Affiliates are companies that work to provide
support for the development of Sakai software, and support customers
using it.
Joseph Hardin, Sakai Project board chairman, and a faculty member at the
University of Michigan, welcomed the involvement of IBM as another
significant partner who adds to the growing value of the Sakai project
to higher education: "IBM has a lot of experience in working with
open-source efforts like Linux and Apache. We are very pleased they see
the Sakai Project as a keystone in the learning and research
infrastructure for higher education, and thus deserving support." Hardin
is director of the Collaborative Technologies Laboratory in the U-M's
Duderstadt Center, and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of
Information
Patrick Carey, IBM Business Consulting Services' higher education
leader, said, "IBM believes the Sakai Project holds great promise for
higher education. We believe in Sakai's vision and want to help build
the community or 'ecosystem' as we like to call it, that will enable the
long-term success of Sakai."
To provide a comprehensive support model for Sakai, IBM is working
closely with its commercial open-source application software partner in
higher education, The R-Smart Group. IBM and R-Smart are actively
combining the talents and resources of both organizations for the
success of the Sakai project as well as a short list of other
open-source projects. The R-Smart Group's Chris Coppola, vice president
for community development, states "Our goal is to help drive legitimacy,
widespread adoptions, and sustainability of open source applications in
education---just as IBM and Red Hat have successfully driven these same
results globally for Linux."
Hardin said, "The Sakai Project is founded on the need to rapidly
propagate the innovations in teaching, learning and research that are
constantly coming from our faculty, students and learning technologists.
Cool tools built at Stanford or Cambridge should immediately be
available to faculty and students at the University of Michigan, indeed
at all schools. Building on totally open source with open standards in
an open community makes that possible. IBM gets that."
Carey noted, "Embracing Sakai fits with IBM's overall business model,
which is focused on open architecture, open standards and open source as
the keys to faster innovation in all industries. IBM wants to enable
faster innovation for all our clients. The Sakai Project is an ideal
vehicle for rapidly advancing innovation for our clients in higher
education."
"IBM believes the open-source movement is leading to the next major
paradigm shift in the software industry," Carey said. "We think it is
important to view the role of open source in the more holistic form of
an 'open approach' overall. Together, open source, open standards and
open architecture form a powerful combination for the creation of the
next generation of applications."
Brad Wheeler, Sakai Project vice chairman and Indiana University Dean of
IT, said, "IBM's extensive global engagement in higher education makes
them an ideal Sakai Affiliate as demand for open source software grows
globally. IBM's global reach further enhances an already strong group of
commercial affiliates."
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The Sakai Project welcomes inquiries from potential commercial partners
who are interested in moving the Sakai software and community forward,
and supporting services based on Sakai. For more information, contact
Brad Wheeler at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Sakai Project conference is being held in Baltimore, Md., June 8-10
as part of Community Source Week. The _Sakai Project_, the _Open Source
Portfolio Initiative_, and _uPortal by JA-SIG_ invite you to attend
their respective conferences that are consecutively scheduled as part of
Community Source Week. Join other academic technologists,
administrators, developers, faculty, and companies as we gather in
Baltimore to press ahead with open source projects for higher education.
See _CommunitySourceWeek.org
_*About Sakai
*The Sakai Project, a landmark venture to create open-source course
management, collaboration and online research support tools for the
higher education community, involves more than 70 universities, colleges
and institutions of learning around the world. The project, begun
through with a collaboration involving the University of Michigan,
Indiana University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford
University, the Open Knowledge Initiative and the uPortal Project, and
funded by the Mellon and Hewlett Foundations, has released the 1.0 and
1.5 versions of its software and plans to release its innovative 2.0
version this summer.
*About IBM
*IBM, the world's largest consulting, services and information
technology company, helps improve education throughout the world. For
more than 80 years, IBM people and solutions have been helping schools
and institutions of higher education innovate for greater achievement,
productivity and efficiency. IBM draws on its world-class portfolio of
services, software and hardware solutions to help clients realize the
full potential of their technology investments. For information about
IBM's solutions and experience in education, please visit:
_www.ibm.com/industries/education_
<http://www.ibm.com/industries/education>. For more on IBM's support of
the open source movement, please visit:
_http://www-130.ibm.com/developerworks/_
<http://www-130.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource>_opensource
<http://www-130.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource>_. For information on
partnering with IBM, please visit: _www.ibm.com/_
<http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld>_partnerworld
<http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld>_.
*About R-Smart
*The R-Smart Group is a commercial open source application software
company serving the higher education market. R-Smart packages,
certifies, deploys, and supports a suite of enterprise financial and
collaborative learning applications for colleges and universities. This
suite of software is developed in cooperation with a well-established
community of educational institutions under an open source license. This
collaborative approach allows R-Smart to offer colleges and universities
open source applications that break their dependence on traditional
proprietary software vendors. See _http://www.rsmart._
<http://www.rsmart.com/>_com
<http://www.rsmart.com/>_[ibmsca]
To contact News Service
By fax: (734) 764-7084
By phone: (734) 764-7260
By mail: 412 Maynard, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1399
By Internet: http://www.umich.edu/news
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Joseph Hardin
Director, Collaborative Technologies Lab,
Duderstadt Center
Clinical Assistant Professor,
School of Information
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~hardin/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(734) 763-3266
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