hi Tony (Hiroki, Geoff, and others) - this sounds like a good approach. I agree with the points from yesterday's meeting about needing to innovate (something we will all be doing in the next years), and also Scott's point that not every tool or system needs to be developed as a collaborative system. Basically, we need to make sure our stuff works together, and adheres to a common architectural format.
This will be especially important as other outside groups adopt SAIL (the whole purpose of SAIL). They will be building tools and systems that depend on SAIL and maybe even contributing new features and developing aspects of SAIL. So its very important that we define the various layers of SAIL carefully, and don't change the lowest ones unless we absolutely have to. We do have a governance model and SAIL Board in place for this, which was established by unanimous vote by that board at the TELS retreat in July, 2005. PAS Researcher Pack is an open source project that has been promised by all of the TELS leaders at every one of the most important academic meetings in our field (ICLS, CSCL, AERA, EARLI, AAAS). We have repeatedly said that we were going to make this available as "The TELS Accelerator" to anyone who wanted to adopt it. After 5 turbulent years, with some mud on our faces, we are finally testing something like an alpha version this week. This is not sunk cost. this is progress. Slow, turbulent progress. But anyway - we promised this to the world and to the NSF, and I would like to make sure that TELS delivers it. This is my job. I hired two full-time programers here in Toronto and burned every last dollar of my startup funds to get a portal ready, and to develop an open source community platform (ENCORE). And I think we are getting there. The authoring system is the final piece, so I would definitely vote on getting something that works into a release form, and getting it up onto the ENCORE community site before this summer's academic meetings. So: June 1, 2008. It really doesn't seem like rocket science, to build an open source version of WISE + Concord models, authoring and reporting, and portal, based on a common java framework. But maybe its harder than rocket science, because it sure has been a trial. Anyway, Tony's e-mail here seems like a reasonable response that recognizes the potential of integrating the Concord UDL approach within PRP. We can talk it over at next week's meeting. jim On 15-Feb-08, at 8:18 PM, Anthony Perritano wrote: > > Hiroki, Geoff and I discussed the possibility of using the UDL > authoring tool as the base for the Pas Authoring Tool. We like many of > the features of the UDL tool. Moving to this has a lot of unknowns and > is not a trivial change. > > Heres where we are at: > > Right now, we are committed to meeting our deadline of having an > authoring tool for April 1/Spring time frame. This deadline is very > important for not only for getting it in front of our researchers here > but also creating a PRP 1.0 deliverable for the community and for our > European research partners. > > Heres the plan: > > Continue to integrate the PO-Otrunk based model into the current Pas > Authoring Tool while investigating the feasibility of using UDL > authoring. We really like the fast wizzy-wig features of UDL and that > is something we want to move toward. > > This feasibility can be investigated by maybe trying to get a pas step > author-able in the UDL environment with some simple navigation > authoring or some other scenario? This will help us get familiar with > the code, familiar with the design and gage what aspects of the system > need to implemented/refactored. > > Maybe next steps are to start wiking and come up with some scenarios? > > -Tony > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SAIL-Dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SAIL-Dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
