1) Check out trunk
2) check out
svn co https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/portal/branches/charon_velocity_portal/
vi pom.xml
– <module>portal</module>
+ <module>charon_velocity_portal</module>
vi osp/pom.xml
– <module>portal</module>
+ <!– <module>portal</module> –>
<module>presentation</module>
mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true -Dmaven.tomcat.home=/Users/csev/dev/apache-tomcat-5.5.20/ clean install sakai:deploy

I used this quote in a recent note where someone (one more time) suggested that a vote be the way we allocate volunteer resources in Sakai (setting me aflame as usual).
I apologize in advance to its somewhat offiensive nature :)
Some in America (myself included) look at “votes” as the mindless polling of poorly educated individuals who have been programmed by watching endless commercials interspersed in between soft-core porn reality shows – so that we can have the perception that there is democracy

Blackboard has made a legal non-revokable non-assert patent pledge which formalizes their position on patents with respect to open source course management systems like Moodle, ATutor, Sakai, and many others. For many months Bb has said “they had no intention to sue universities” and the community has asked Bb to put that in writing – this pledge is “in writing”. :)
The patent pledge is available at:
http://www.blackboard.com/patent
Sakai and Educause have prepared a statement which should hit the web sites of Sakai and Educause soon. I attach the final version below.

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