After a long 4 days at the Community Source Conference for SAKAI, OSPI and uPortal, I'm taking a short break and heading home for a day of painting before returning for the uPortal part of the conference where I'll be presenting some ideas on uPortal and Identity.
On Thursday I kicked off the first face-to-face meeting in my new role as Chair of the SAKAI Performance Working Group where we discussed a process for capturing lessons learned from the two big production deployments of SAKAI a Michigan and Indiana. This information will be captured in the collaboration site and factored into what we hope will be useful information to other schools seeking to deploy SAKAI as well as hints to inform the architecture team to address manageability, maintainability and other non-functional systemic requirements as well as performance characteristics.
As usual the real work gets done in the hallways where I managed to catch up with with some of my UK colleagues doing great work on the JISC projects and the awesome research at the CARET organization.