Hello all, For the past 2.5 weeks I have been traveling in Australia talking Sakai with our Australian partners and friends of Sakai. I visited the following locations: MELCOE (Sydney), Macquarie University(Sydney), Charles Sturt University (Albury), Australian National University (Canberra), Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane), Monash University (Melbourne), and Melbourne University (Melbourne).
The main reason was to talk with James Dalziel about moving forward and getting Sakai to work better with LAMS 1.1. I made a Sakai Interview Video with James at:
http://www.dr-chuck.com/media.php?id=59
Most of the topic was about Sakai and eResearch. Most of the universities I visited are pretty happy with their current home grown and commercial LMS solutions.
I gave the following talk (over and over) – feel absolutely free to take these slides, and reuse them in any way you see fit (with or without attribution):
http://www.dr-chuck.com/talks.php?id=66
The talk got better as the trip went on – so make sure if I gave you a copy of the “overview” PPT earlier grab this one as well. If you are a Keynote user send me a note and I will send you the “real” version :) I also used the following PPT as well when talking about research:
http://www.dr-chuck.com/talks.php?id=65
http://www.dr-chuck.com/talks.php?id=64
I also talked a bunch about the eResearch paper (draft attached).
My cell phone photo blog starts here:
http://www.dr-chuck.com/images/2006/03/index.php?img=12-03-06_1514001.jpg
I need to give a hearty thanks to all the people who arranged this and made sure I was never allowed to get lost in the Outback and killed by poison toads: Mike Ribbechi, James Dalziel, Ernie Ghiglione, Fiona Malikoff, Matt Morton-Allen, Vic Elliott, Regina Obexer, Nathan Bailey, Claire Brooks, David Hirst, and many others.