{"id":5509,"date":"2018-01-01T15:12:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T19:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/?p=5509"},"modified":"2018-01-01T18:16:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T22:16:53","slug":"a-happy-tsugi-new-year-a-look-back-and-a-look-ahead-to-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2018\/01\/a-happy-tsugi-new-year-a-look-back-and-a-look-ahead-to-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"A Happy Tsugi New Year – A look back and a look ahead to 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

I figured I should reflect on Tsugi as we move into the new year. It has been over six years since I started the code base that would become Tsugi in 2013.<\/p>\n

In 2017, we made a lot of progress so Tsugi<\/a> can be used by by a much broader audience. Some important Tsugi achievements include:<\/p>\n

– A place to host open source Tsugi tools at scale for free – www.tsugicloud.org<\/a> – this required new Amazon features and required improving the \u201cApp Store\u201d experience for tools-only servers. There is an app store with metadata and screenshots like any app store.<\/p>\n

– Adding support for Google Classroom<\/a> in addition to LTI for LMS integration. I heard that Google Classroom already owns >60% of the K12 market share. I think that over time Classroom will erode market share in K12 market and in time will begin to make inroads into higher education starting with Community Colleges \/ FE. So strategically, I want Tsugi to have an early presence in that new emerging market.<\/p>\n

– Cleaned up the existing tools in the \u201ctsugitools<\/a>\u201d repo – like the peer grader with an eye to making the tools more usable by folks other than me :)<\/p>\n

– Started to lay the legal groundwork to establish the first Tsugi Commercial affiliate. This is a lower priority activity – once the free\/open Tsugi \/ TsugiCloud is solid – I will progress a commercial offering. If demand emerges for a commercial Tsugi offering, it will be quite easy to replicate the TsugiCloud infrastructure for a commercial offering.<\/p>\n

Looking forward to 2018, I have a few goals:<\/p>\n

– Begin to document and market tsugicloud.org to build a beta customer base. My first customers will likely be Sakai schools but I will work to get exposure to K12 alpha testers to get a small base of K12 customers. Let me know if you are interested in being an early customer or if you know someone who might want to use TsugiCloud.<\/p>\n

– Recruit new open source applications for TsugiTools and host them for free on TsugiCloud<\/p>\n

– Focus on cleaning up the developer documentation on tsugi.org<\/a> to make it easier to develop new applications.<\/p>\n

– I will be running an \u201cTsugi Developer\u201d class on-campus at UMich during Winter semester. This will help improve my documentation and work out the kinks in the developer experience.<\/p>\n

– It will be a high priority to build 2-3 new high-quality tools: (1) A threaded discussion tool with grading, (2) A wiki-like tool, perhaps based on HAX from ELMSN, (3) A tool to include H5P content. This fits with the 2018 focus on building tools on the Tsugi infrastructure.<\/p>\n

– I am trying to think of something to trigger Tsugi tool development – perhaps a hack-athon or a contest – something to build interest in developing tools.<\/p>\n

So it should be an interesting 2018. There is a lot of work to do but a lot of great work to build on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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