[Dspace-general] Sakai conference July 2009-Cambridge MA

[Michele Kimpton]

10th Sakai Conference
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 8-10, 2009

The 10th Sakai Conference will be taking place in beautiful Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Sakai conferences are high-energy events that bring
together users and developers of Sakai to talk about past successes
and challenges and to peer into the future for the Sakai product and
community. It's an essential event if you're using or considering
using the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment.

Visit the conference website for information on conference
registration, hotel reservations, and submitting proposals for the
10th Sakai Conference (https://educonference.com/sakai/boston/index.php)

Main Conference Dates: Wednesday, July 8 - Friday, July 10
Pre-conference sessions: Tuesday, July 7
The conference hotel will be the Hyatt Cambridge. The room rate is
$199/night and includes internet access. The cutoff date for this room
rate will be June 5.
Proposals will be accepted until April 10, 2009 in the following tracks:

-- Building Sakai: the technical aspects of Sakai enterprise  
development hold center stage in this track. User experience design,
scalability and performance, interoperability, development and
presentation frameworks, programming best practices, and testing
strategies are but a few of the many topics to be discussed and debated.
-- Deploying Sakai: planning a Sakai pilot or production rollout, have  
questions regarding configuration or administration or need advice on
how best to train and support your user community, then the deployment
track will interest you.
-- Using Sakai: explore the teaching and learning, research and  
project collaboration capabilities of the Sakai Collaboration and
Learning Environment. Sessions will examine effective learning and
teaching practices, articulate strategies for facilitating research
and project team collaboration, as well as confront the challenges of
improving Sakai workflows, usability and accessibility.
-- Multiple Audiences: this track features sessions of general  
interest to the Sakai Community or presentations that span the problem
domains otherwise demarcated by our other session tracks.
-- Sakai Showcase: the Sakai Community's goal of producing innovative  
software for higher education is on display in this track. Interactive
demonstrations and tutorials focusing on new or refactored Sakai tools
and services provide a snapshot of community-source software
development in action.


-- 
Michael Korcuska
Executive Director, Sakai Foundation
mkorcuska at sakaifoundation.org
phone: +1 510-931-6559
mobile (US): +1 510-599-2586
skype: mkorcuska

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