Joining the Community
Whether you are running Sakai at a small scale or large scale, it is important to become an active part of the community. Community engagement expands your portfolio of best practices, it provides a forum for affecting change, and the Sakai community and product both benefit from a broad base of input. This section details a few community resources that are available and may be of help to you in supporting your Sakai installation.
Confluence
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/
Confluence is the wiki used to document the Sakai product itself as well as the business processes related to the larger community. You can view materials without an account, but if you want to ccomment on , edit, or create your own new content, then you need an account. You can request an account by emailing confluence-admins@collab.sakaiproject.org.
JIRA
http://issues.sakaiproject.org/
JIRA is the bug, requirements, and task tracking system used to manage the efforts of the Sakai community. You can browse JIRA without an account, but if you want to report new issues or comment on existing issues you'll need to request an account by sending mail to jira-admins@collab.sakaiproject.org. The same email address is used to request permissions, new project areas, et cetera.
Key work groups and discussion groups
The following is a short list of the mailing lists on collab.sakaiproject.org that may be of interest to Sakai administrators:
| List | Description |
|---|---|
| WG: Production | The best place to exchange day-to-day production issues |
| WG: Enterprise Integration | Concerns integrating Sakai with external resources (email, authentication, file storage, repositories, etc.) |
| DG: Development (aka sakai-dev) | Intended to be a development-centered list, dev often crosses into administrative areas, particularly as people start working with new versions of Sakai and new versions of component technologies (such as java and tomcat) |
| DG: Open Forum | A good place for informal or general questions, perhaps of a non-technical nature |
To join these or any other lists:
- Create an account on collab.sakaiproject.org if you have not already done so
- Log in to collab.sakaiproject.org
- In your "My Workspace" area, you'll find a "Membership" link. Follow this link to see your current memberships
- Follow the "Joinable Sites" link.
- Click the "Join" link next to any site you wish to join.
Sakai Conferences
The Sakai conferences are another good source of up-to-the-minute information about current versions of sakai, upcoming releases, and are a great way to build a network of contacts that are dealing with many of the same support issues. For details about the next upcoming conference, visit http://sakaiproject.org/.
Presentations and podcasts for previous presentations are retained for the use of the community. You can find more information by visiting the Sakai Conferences section of the SakaiPedia.
Documenting your installation
As you move forward in supporting and learning about Sakai, it is important to learn about other administrators and their experiences in supporting Sakai. One way to do this is by registering your installation with the Sakai community.
For more information, see the SakaiPedia Entry "Documenting your Sakai instance as part of the Sakai community" or contact Anthony Whyte.