From the Trenches: Sakai Ops Teams Exchange Experiences

Linda M Place - University of Michigan; Clay Fenlason - Boston University; Seth Theriault - Columbia University; Kyong Kim, Murthy Tanniru, Vivie Sinou - Foothill College; Danny McKee - Indiana University; Francette Myburgh, Johan van den Berg - UNISA; Stephen Marquard - University of Cape Town; Ramaswamy Aditya (Adi), Jeff Cousineau - University of Michigan; Cheryl Wogahn - Yale University

Wednesday
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
Room: Grand A

Session Abstract

System and Database Administrators come together to share experiences deploying and maintaining Sakai for their academic situations. Whether one individual or a team, using simple or complex infrastructure with MySQL or Oracle in pilot or production, Ops teams have faced and overcome challenges and have tips and tricks to share.

Presentation Materials

• Go to Attachments Tab for Sakai infrastructure documents representing participating campuses.

Podcasts

• Session leaders are encouraged to post their podcasts on the main Vancouver Podcasts page (a central repository of podcasts) and may also choose to link to them from their session page. See the main Vancouver conference wiki page for more details.

• • If you are planning to attend this session, bringing an iPod, and are willing to record this session, please let Linda M Place know.

Additional Information

• Session leaders are also encouraged to appoint a session convener, a podcast recorder and/or a note-taker and post the minutes of their session on a Page (see Add Page link near top-right.)

• Participants and Session Leaders are encouraged to post Comments (see Comment form below) or create additional Pages as needed to facilitate collaboration (see Add Page link near top-right.) )

• • Child Pages for this session (Added Pages will automatically appear in this list)

Panel Participants

• Boston University
  • Clay Fenlason
• Columbia University
  • Seth Theriault
• Foothill College
  • Kyong Kim
  • Murthy Tanniru
  • Vivie Sinou
• Indiana University
  • Danny McKee
• UNISA
  • Francette Myburgh
  • Johan van den Berg
• University of Cape Town
  • [~smarquard]
• University of Michigan
  • Ramaswamy Aditya
  • Jeff Cousineau
  • Linda M Place
• Yale
  • Cheryl Wogahn

Session goals

My idea is that the session should include a brief introduction of each school represented on the panel and a quick overview of the infrastructure each supports. That should provide a background that demonstrates the diverse nature of our experiences. While support of a Sakai deployment is a given, the tools we include and the backend integrations to campus infrastructures will likely be very different too.

With eight universities represented, we might try to keep the overview section of the session to 5-10 minutes each. That will leave 20-40 minutes for open discussion, questions, or whatever arises. My sense is that members of the audience will identify with one or more of the types of deployment our combined experience represents, so they may have very directed questions. Panel members should also feel free to ask each other questions.

So, these are just my starting ideas. I'm very open to alternative ideas, so please feel free to add to this document, or to contribute comments.