Presence and IntComm WG

[Jesse Thompson <>]

Hello all,

I regret that I didn't participate in the last wg-pic conference call. 
It sounds like it was an interesting topic.  See the message below from 
Jeanne regarding Wisconsin's interest in Sakai.  Keep me posted about 
any initiatives regarding Sakai, BuddyCloud, and XMPP.

I'm trying to define the line between where I should be involved vs. 
when I should punt to Jeanne and Scott.  I focus on communication and 
collaboration infrastructure technology (email, calendaring, chat, etc), 
and Jeanne focuses more on academic learning technology (Desire2Learn, 
Moodle, etc).

From my initial glance at these products, it appears that Sakai is 
something that I wouldn't be involved with, unless there is a way for 
Sakai to be installed on top of our existing XMPP infrastructure. 
BuddyCloud looks like it could be an additional service offering in my 
area, but I can't tell how much it overlaps with our existing XMPP 
infrastructure.  Am I on the right track?

Do you have any details on how Sakai and/or BuddyCloud would use 
existing XMPP infrastructure?  Or is XMPP merely the technology that 
Sakai and BuddyCloud use as their transports?  Another way to ask: are 
these services something that would replace our existing XMPP service 
(p2p chat, muc), enhance the feature set, or something that an 
organization would run alongside and independent of a traditional XMPP 
service?

Jesse

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Sakai
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:59:21 -0600
From: Jeanne Blochwitz 
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To: Jesse Thompson 
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CC: Scott Fullerton 
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Jesse,

I would be very interested in finding out more on the discussion about 
federation of activity streams - this is of interest in Learning 
Analytics - an emerging area.  Scott Fullerton and I recently looked 
into the technical specifications for Sakai.  I would be interested in 
finding out more about developments around integration of activity 
streams with Sakai.

As far as what DoIT is pursuing with Sakai, there are no current 
projects, but I have been asked to work with Scott Fullerton to look 
into a potential pilot for Sakai.


Jeanne Blochwitz




On Feb 21, 2012, at 1:46 PM, Jesse Thompson wrote:

> Hi Jeanne,
>
> Is Sakai a product that DoIT is pursuing in any extent?
>
> My contact at the XMPP foundation (WiscChat is an XMPP service) contacted me 
> about a discussion he had with people from Internet2 and
> BuddyCloud regarding federation of activity streams across educational 
> institutions, perhaps including integration with the Sakai Project.
>
> Jesse

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