Nate Angell - rSmart
Nate Angell works with open source communities and projects for rSmart as a Client Evangelist focused on Sakai and as a member of the community Sakai Product Council. Nate previously led web communications at Portland State University, Oregon's largest and only urban public university, and at the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry in Portland, Oregon. Angell holds an M.A. in American Civilization, specializing in film, television, and digital media studies, from Brown University.
Abstract:
This session will introduce and organize actual work on Sakai to take place throughout the conference, inspired by the functional specifications, user experience design work, code sprints or hackathons where small-scope work is undertaken to achieve tangible results that are so productive and energizing at many open source project gatherings.
Not just for developers! We invite participation from Sakai community members with all skills and experiences. Developers need direct input from everyone—students, instructors, instructional designers, implementers, user-experience designers, big-picture thinkers—to make Sakai better.
We will collaborate to identify good projects for the working session, using suggestions gathered before the conference and "unconference" techniques. Participants are encouraged to engage in work activities throughout the conference and return for the closing Sakai Working Session Stop session to report on accomplishments and discuss further steps.