<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br>10th Sakai Conference<br>Cambridge, Massachusetts<br>July 8-10, 2009<br><br>The 10th Sakai Conference will be taking place in beautiful Cambridge, <br>Massachusetts. Sakai conferences are high-energy events that bring <br>together users and developers of Sakai to talk about past successes <br>and challenges and to peer into the future for the Sakai product and <br>community. It's an essential event if you're using or considering <br>using the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment.<br><br>Visit the conference website for information on conference <br>registration, hotel reservations, and submitting proposals for the <br>10th Sakai Conference (<a href="https://educonference.com/sakai/boston/index.php">https://educonference.com/sakai/boston/index.php</a>)<br><br>Main Conference Dates: Wednesday, July 8 - Friday, July 10<br>Pre-conference sessions: Tuesday, July 7<br>The conference hotel will be the Hyatt Cambridge. The room rate is <br>$199/night and includes internet access. The cutoff date for this room <br>rate will be June 5.<br>Proposals will be accepted until April 10, 2009 in the following tracks:<br><br>-- Building Sakai: the technical aspects of Sakai enterprise <br>development hold center stage in this track. User experience design, <br>scalability and performance, interoperability, development and <br>presentation frameworks, programming best practices, and testing <br>strategies are but a few of the many topics to be discussed and debated.<br>-- Deploying Sakai: planning a Sakai pilot or production rollout, have <br>questions regarding configuration or administration or need advice on <br>how best to train and support your user community, then the deployment <br>track will interest you.<br>-- Using Sakai: explore the teaching and learning, research and <br>project collaboration capabilities of the Sakai Collaboration and <br>Learning Environment. Sessions will examine effective learning and <br>teaching practices, articulate strategies for facilitating research <br>and project team collaboration, as well as confront the challenges of <br>improving Sakai workflows, usability and accessibility.<br>-- Multiple Audiences: this track features sessions of general <br>interest to the Sakai Community or presentations that span the problem <br>domains otherwise demarcated by our other session tracks.<br>-- Sakai Showcase: the Sakai Community's goal of producing innovative <br>software for higher education is on display in this track. Interactive <br>demonstrations and tutorials focusing on new or refactored Sakai tools <br>and services provide a snapshot of community-source software <br>development in action.<br><br><br>-- <br>Michael Korcuska<br>Executive Director, Sakai Foundation<br><a href="mailto:mkorcuska@sakaifoundation.org">mkorcuska@sakaifoundation.org</a><br>phone: +1 510-931-6559<br>mobile (US): +1 510-599-2586<br>skype: mkorcuska<br><br></body></html>