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<\/a>Preface<\/b><\/p>\nWriting software that supports teaching, learning and collaboration is far more than just a job. Since teaching and learning are some of the most fundamental human activities, we all have a vested interest in teaching and learning software. Discussions about the design of teaching and learning software can evoke passions from virtually everyone involved in the process. Passions run high and the stakes are high. On most college campuses, the software to support teaching and learning (Blackboard, Moodle, Sakai, etc.) is used more often than any other campus software. Student and teacher lives revolve around the software. A significant outage of a course management system in the last few weeks of class is likely to produce howls of anger from students, teachers, and administrators alike.<\/p>\n
Building an open source product and community around the Sakai Learning Management System was far from a mere technical activity. In retrospect, the technical problems were relatively mild challenges compared to the challenges of so many people being brought together as a community where we generally made the rules as we went along. This book is about that journey of making open source software and deriving and changing the rules as to how we would make that software as we went along. It is about software developers, managers, designers, and end users all dropped into a crucible and put under pressure to make something great and do so in record time.<\/p>\n
This book is about that battle for Sakai.<\/p>\n
Charles Severance
\nwww.dr-chuck.com
\nAnn Arbor, MI, USA
\nMarch 6, 2010<\/p>\n
Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n If you want more updates on the book, follow me (@drchuck) on Twitter or come back to my blog again. I hope to have the book for sale in both electronic and hard-copy by May of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I finished version 0.0.2 of my book titled, “The Battle for Sakai: A Retrospective Diary”. The book is now 230 pages long and covers the time period through December 31, 2006. I am now going to print the book and send copies to a few reviewers for comment and see where I go from there. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\r\n1 Before Sakai 1 \r\n2 Forming the Sakai Coalition 11 \r\n3 The Sakai Project Begins 19 \r\n4 The First Summer of Sakai 31 \r\n5 The Big Meeting 39\r\n6 The Little Project That Could 45 \r\n7 Framework II - The Sequel 49 \r\n8 The Devil is in the Details 59 \r\n9 Sakai 2.0: A Star is Born 81 \r\n10 Lost in Transition 91 \r\n11 The Great Beyond 107 \r\n12 Finishing on a High Note 123 \r\n13 Beyond the Mellon Grant 133 \r\n14 Sakai Foundation Executive Director? 147 \r\n15 Onwards, Upwards, and Down Under 155\r\n16 V-Day 173 \r\n17 Family \u201cVacation\u201d Time 179 \r\n18 Educational Community License 187 \r\n19 U.S. Patent No. 6,988,138 203 \r\n20 The Fall 209 \r\n21 The Winter 227\r\n<\/pre>\n