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I've finally uploaded my pictures from the Sakai 2007 Summer Conference in Amsterdam. You can see all my photos tagged with SakaiAmsterdam07 or browse all 110 photos from the whole Amsterdam trip (including a special appearance by dancing fish flakes!)
Alternatively, you can see all the photos on Flickr tagged with SakaiAmsterdam07, or relive the magic with slides and podcasts from the actual sessions.
If you're a Macbook or Powerbook user, then its possible you've seen the Cisco VPN client for Mac. It's pretty ugly, and no fun to have lingering around, taking valuable real estate. However, for some of us, its a necessary part of our lives to get on corporate or institution networks. However, Erik recently turned me on to Shimo, a great little discreet app that gives you a much nicer, more intuitive (at least for Mac users) interface.
It works on Intel and non-Intel Macs, and requires that you have the correct Cisco client already installed. I haven't tried it out very much yet, but I think it'll be a very useful little app.
From the progress reports and votes on the sakai-dev list, it looks like we'll soon be moving to Maven 2 as our build tool. Up until now, Sakai was only compatible with older versions of Maven, so this is a good thing (it's never a good idea to be dependent on deprecated/unsupported versions of software). However, I don't know if there's any specific benefit that the community will reap here, other than that. The consensus seems to be be that while the work won't be fun, now is the right time to do it. So, get ready to update your documentation!
In more exciting news, there has been a movement afoot to change the way course overflow works in Sakai. Currently, extra courses get bumped into a html forms-style drop down list, which I was never happy with. A new patch that has been developed (SAK-10448) replaces this with a hidden div that reappears when the user clicks "more" (similar to the functionality on Chowhound.com). This div organizes the courses and projects, which is more intuitive for the user, but the question of user preference (perhaps the user wants to rearrange these lists) hasn't really been addressed yet. I definitely think we should go with this format.
There's a community website for Sakai that aggregates the blog posts of different community members, but I was wracking my brain trying to remember what it was called. Now I found it! Planet Sakai.org
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