The University of Amsterdam and Edia are proud to announce EuroSakai 2011. The conference will be held on the 26th, 27th and 28th of September at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The conference is open to any university and organization that are using or considering using Sakai.

The University of Amsterdam and Edia are proud to announce EuroSakai 2011. The conference will be held on the 26th, 27th and 28th of September at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The conference is open to any university and organization that are using or considering using Sakai.

Edia heeft de afgelopen maanden gewerkt aan Sakai als service provider binnen de samenwerkinginfrastructuur die door SURFnet wordt ontwikkeld. SURFconext zorgt dat diensten van verschillende aanbieders met en naast elkaar gebruikt kunnen worden waardoor nieuwe samenwerkingsmogelijkheden ontstaan. Instellingen passen SURFconext toe om interne en externe diensten te integreren en om gebruikers een samenwerkingsomgeving te bieden die meebeweegt met hun online samenwerkingsbehoefte (Bron: surfnet.nl).

Edia is currently developing a Digitaal Dutch Language Portfolio for CINOP. Coming September CINOP will setup a pilot for this environment. Early 2011, the product will be taken into production.

Recently, Edia became a member of the Sakai Foundation Commercial Affiliate Program. By joining this program Edia is supporting the Foundation's work, the development of Sakai, and to directly contribute to Open Source technological innovations  for higher education.
Here you can find an overview of all the companies that are members of the program.
 

Last summer, Charles Sturt University (CSU) hired Edia to develop a Gradebook tool for Sakai. This tool is still in design and will feature some features specifically designed for CSU. Based on CSU's functional design Edia has designed to develop a completely new tool, rather than making adjustments to the old design.
Some of the unique features of the tool are:

Michael Korcuska, Exceutive Director of the Sakai Foundation visited Edia on October 5. He was in Amsterdam to speak on the OpenIC Symposium. This was a chance for Edia to update him on the Sakai Development that we've been doing recently. Micheals blog post about the visit is an excellent summary. 

The book Sakai Courseware Management by Alan Berg and Michael Korcuska has been published in 2009 by Packt publishing. The book also contains a section with information about Edia, covering our development of contrib sakai tools and our work on UvA communities for the University of Amsterdam.

Together with learning4u we have developed an implementation of the IMS e-portfolio standard in Sakai. Kennisnet has developed a Dutch application profile for this IMS standard, that facilitates the exchange of electronic portfolio data between different ELO's. The sakai tool that Edia developed for learning4u is available to the sakai community under an open source licence.

In Sakai, the GroupProvider provides user / role membership in a group, from an external system. We are currently involved in a project that implements GroupProvider to allow the members of a federated administration workspace to manage the worksites created inside that federated administration worksite. More on that in future posts. Here I'd like to briefly give a few pointers about implementing your own GroupProvider.