Sakai OAE Release 1.0.0

[Alan Marks]

The Sakai Open Academic Environment (OAE) steering group and project team are pleased and excited to announce that the OAE 1.0.0 is now available.

This release of OAE represents the first production-ready version of OAE and emphasizes functionality for academic networking and collaboration. We recognize that as a version one release, it’s merely a stepping stone for great things to come, and hope that it encourages adoption and, crucially, increased participation in the project among individuals and institutions that together comprise the Sakai Community.

Sakai OAE grew from the hard work of a lot of people, not just those "officially" seconded to the managed project team, but especially the many volunteer contributors in the community without whom the project would not have succeeded. While the list of people who have helped to make OAE a reality is too long to acknowledge individually, I’d like thank you to each of you for your hard work. Great job.

Alan Marks
Sakai OAE Project Director

 

 

About Sakai OAE 1.0.0
This release is:

• A major release of a new emerging product of the Sakai community.
• A significant update in both the back end and user interface from the previous "Q1" pre-release.  
• The first of several planned releases.
• Intended for institutions wishing to provide an academic platform that offers social collaboration around content and encourages openness.

For additional information about the project and release, please review the following:

• Brief demo of the functionality (http://www.youtube.com/user/nyuatlas)
• Sakai OAE nine design goals (https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/3AK/Design+Goals)
• Sakai OAE managed project structure (https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/3AK/Project+overview)

For those interested in downloading and installing the release, information is included below. 

Version 
Sakai Open Academic Environment version 1.0.0 
Released 8 September 2011

Availability
Sakai OAE can be downloaded in the following packages.

OAE Binary Package 

• http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/oae/1.0.0/binary/
• Example command line: 
  java -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -jar org.sakaiproject.nakamura.app-1.0.0.jar 1> run.log 2>&1 &

OAE Web Start (one-click download and run for demos)

• How to Guide: https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/3AK/Java+Webstart+Packages
• Web Start: http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/oae/1.0.0/webstart/sakaioae.jnlp

Source Code

• Nakamura (https://github.com/sakaiproject/nakamura/tree/1.0.0)
• Front End (https://github.com/sakaiproject/3akai-ux/tree/1.0.0)
• Sparse Map Content (https://github.com/sakaiproject/sparsemapcontent/tree/1.1-20110830)
• Solr Bundle (https://github.com/sakaiproject/solr/tree/org.sakaiproject.nakamura.solr-1.0)

Known Issues
This link to Jira shows known OAE issues at the time of release.

The Solr component included in this release is the v1.0.0 release, while the sparse content release includes fixes beyond v1.0.0 and so is a date-based tag. There are no known issues with Solr.

Documentation
Documentation is always a work in progress and current efforts can be viewed below:

• Functional Overview
• UI Release notes
• Nakamura Release notes
• Solr Server Release notes
• Sparse Content Release notes
• Deployment Guide
• Widget SDK
• Nakamura Documentation

License
Sakai OAE is released under the Educational Community License Version 2.0
http://sakaiproject.org/foundation-licenses

Ongoing Work

Version 1.0.1.  The team expects to release an incremental version (1.0.1) shortly after this release, which will include integration with Sakai CLE that will allow users to see the CLE sites they are a member of on their personal dashboard, with the ability to visit and use their CLE sites inside of the OAE portal, will include accessibility improvements, and a small set of important patches (to be determined). https://jira.sakaiproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=%28project+%3D+%22Sakai+3+UI+Dev%22+OR+project+%3D+Nakamura%29+AND+%28FixVersion+%3D+%221.0.1%22%29

Version 1.1.0. The majority of the project team is focusing on the 1.1.0 release, which is expected to be a significant functional upgrade. Significant progress has already been made. Further information can be found here:

https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/3AK/Sakai+OAE+v1.1+90-day+plan
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/3AK/Sakai+OAE+v1.1+progress+tracking