Sakai Special Interest Group NLDecember 5th, 2007

Newport Beach, CA

http://sakai-nl.blogspot.com

Dutch Sakai SIG

What is Sakai SIG NL?

• Informal community, started in July 2006, hosted by SURF Foundation

• Coordinator (1 day/week)• ~ 6 meetings annually• Work plan: communication, PR, exchange

of experiences, shared roadmap, facilitating networking, localization of software

• Website / weblog: just to inform those that do not know (yet)

Meetings

• In Utrecht, @ SURF Foundation

• Usually ~15 attendants

• Education Institutions and commercial companies

• ‘Fixed’ agenda items:– Round table of participating organisations– Presentations of Pilots, Production

environments– Sakai related announcements

Sakai at our institutions

Education• University of Amsterdam (Sakai & OSP)• University of Utrecht (evaluating Sakai)• Saxion (Piloting Sakai)• Hotel school The Hague (Piloting Sakai• Leidse Onderwijs Instellingen (LOI)• Academia Vitae Lib Arts (evaluating Sakai)• > 20 community colleges (!!)

Sakai at our institutions

Commercial• Portfolio4u (OSP)• A new spring (Sakai ASP, development)• Stoas (Sakai OSP)• Edia (Sakai tools, development)• Omix (Sakai ASP, development)• Koopal Advies (Consultancy)

Dutch facts and figures

• VLE in primary and secondary education: very fragmented market

• Higher Ed: large market share of Blackboard (~ 50 %), plus local players

• HE: Total of ~60 institutions, 500 k students

• Within HE: some 3-5 institutions that are evaluating Sakai

• Commercial interests in Sakai, high activity and production

Results Sakai SIG NL

– QA (UvA)– Localization & Internationalization (I18N & L10N)– General requirements for tools – Requirements and standards for OSP– European (Dutch) requirements: Bologna, Lisbon– PR, workshops & seminars by SIG– Cooperation between commercials and educational

institutions (!)– Some tool development

Sakai SIG NL – open issues

• Tool localization• Convincing decision makers to adopt to Sakai

O.S.

Challenges Sakai SIG NL

• ‘Hesitation’ for O.S. in Higher Ed. Management

• Legacy VLE’s • STRONG competition of MS Sharepoint• The role of Surf Foundation…(Financing

and Microsoft Promotion)• Resources: Finding dedicated Sakai-

professionals• 2nd ‘big’ university choosing Sakai

What’s next

• Check out:– http://sakai-nl.blogspot.com

– Wiki: http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/EUROSAKAI/Home

– Collab: DG: Euro Sakai• Let’s talk: leave your business card / email

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