• Benn Oshrin

• Jim Helwig

• Jason Smith

• “collaborate to foster, develop, and sustain open technologies and innovation to support learning, teaching, and research." (Mission statement from bylaws) More at http://www.apereo.org/governance/draftbylaws

• Opening minds: Open solutions for an open world

• Create context for Open Source? What does Open Source mean? Why it is important and, seemingly, inevitable (therefore needs to be embraced)

• It would be nice to have a theme which will regularly appear in presentations

• 1 - Awareness and Advocacy - Open Source Software, as a movement, dates back to February 2, 1998  (2/3/98), yet even today, almost 15 years later, awareness and adoption  are often hindered by assumptions, misconceptions and a general lack of  knowledge regarding open source development, support and implementation.  Significant resistance can arise across campuses from non-technical  stakeholders, unfamiliar with the open source ecosystem. Presentations  discussing non-technical issues around awareness and adoption of open  source (as opposed to specific OS applications) are welcome. These  presentations might include: the introduction of open source options to  your campus; the procurement process for identifying and evaluating  options (commercial and open); approaches for addressing common and  unique concerns; lessons learned in the implementation, etc.

• 2 - Design and Development - Sharing is critical among communities creating open software. Please  share development projects, design approaches, usability and  accessibility improvement plans and projects. Topics may also include  best practices in design and development approaches that could be  incorporated into software in the future.

• 3 - Deployment and Integration - Presentations for people who need to make applications work on  campus: developers, content providers, team leaders, and evangelists. In  particular, we would like to highlight work that integrates community  source projects within enterprise infrastructure, and with each other.

• 4 - Expanded Solutions - For most organizations open source software is one important  component of a complex ecosystem of systems and tools supporting  teaching, learning and research. Please share your experiences and  successes integrating solutions to expand the benefit to your faculty  and students.

• I think 4 should be incorporated into 6. I Agree

• 5 - Getting Started - Sessions for newcomers: from faculty to developers, administrators to  trainers, students to tech support. Learn the steps to evaluate, plan,  deploy, promote, and support software on your campus.

• 6 - Leadership and Future Directions - Open software is an element within your broader strategy and goals.  How are institutions using open software to achieve strategic goals?  What changes and opportunities on the horizon should be influencing the  direction of the community? What other trends, advances and challenges  should become part of our community planning and dialogue?

• 7 - Teaching, Learning, Portfolios and Research - Technology to improve the quality of teaching, learning and  research.  Please share case studies of effective teaching, research and  collaboration practices as well as new approaches to technology-enabled  teaching and research.

• I suspect we'll need to break this out a little; self paced learning has been mentioned - analytics still has a high profile. What's the MOOC experience out there?

• I would love to see a balance between technical tracks and using tools either teaching and learning or other (product) open source tools - not sure how viable that is

• 8 - Technical Management - Deploying, supporting and managing open software is critical to its  success. Please share your best practices and approaches in creating and  maintaining open software successfully for your users.

• Is this focussed on deployment like 3, or developing like 2 above or more an intent to think of support?

• pins/ribbons/stickers

• BOF - that are a bit more organized 

• Lunch - break into 4 constitutent groups

• https://wiki.jasig.org/display/JCON/2013+Conference+Program+CFP+Deadlines+and+Timing

• Rolling acceptance of papers

CHAT HISTORY:

January 9, 2013

10:06 Jenn Cummings: If someone is outside (windy?) can you mute yourself?

10:06 Deb Smith: Can folks put their phones on mute until they need to talk

10:07 Patrick Lynch: manage excellently

10:09 unnamed: I don't think I have a log in to the wiki?

10:09 Neal Caidin: me - Neal

10:09 Neal Caidin: never mind

10:09 Neal Caidin: I see the sign up

10:15 Amanda Cynkin: My suggestion would be to include a separate track for self-paced courses, or to insert that into an existent track, so we can ask for proposals for this audience as well.

10:16 Amanda Cynkin: yes, trying to speak. my skype is not working well.

10:17 Amanda Cynkin: I'm not sure where to suggest this, but I and my coworkers last year also felt that there was a lot for professors on how to develop courses, and for developers, but not for actual practical usage of tools.

10:18 Patty Gertz: I have a silly question...are we gearing the presentations towards CLE 2.9 or OAE?

10:18 Kelly Geng: interesting question, but not from me :-)

10:19 Neal Caidin: Yeah, that is an interesting question

10:20 Patty Gertz: which question? The OAE CLE one?

10:20 Matt Hertzog: this chat is interesting. i didn't type anything until now.

10:20 Neal Caidin: To me/ OAE - CLE is interesting

10:20 Neal Caidin: imagining a balance of some sort, but don't know

10:21 Matt Hertzog: Hahah I'm the one that asked the CLE/OAE one...some reason said I was Patty...

10:21 Neal Caidin: plus it is a moving or unknown quantity to some extent

10:22 Ian Dolphin: Don't feel we should "gear" to any particular software

10:23 Jim Helwig: I'm here now

10:30 Neal Caidin: Sakai CLE developer community would like to know about local development efforts

10:30 Neal Caidin: so that they can advise/guide/evaluate for the core tool

10:33 Neal Caidin: Also there might be interest in a "User Focus group" (from a Sakai CLE working perspective)

10:36 Matt Hertzog: I agree with Amanda

10:38 Neal Caidin: bless you

10:38 Patrick Lynch: . mute to sneeze!

10:40 Neal Caidin: people will appreciate an option for early entry

10:40 Neal Caidin: for planning and budget

10:41 Neal Caidin: (not including the procrastinators, which is probably a lot!)

10:52 Neal Caidin: +1 to fill the gaps comment!

10:56 Patrick Lynch: abstracts do not inform us of the quality of the presentation

10:57 Patrick Lynch: +1 pointers

10:57 Neal Caidin: +1 pointers

11:00 Ian Dolphin: I have another call on the hour... thanks to everyone for participating and great suggestions!

11:01 Neal Caidin: bye Ian

11:02 Drew Wills: +1 60 min sessions

11:02 Amanda Cynkin: +1 60 mins

11:05 Jim Helwig: Drew is one of those long winded people. ;-)

11:05 Drew Wills: lol

11:05 Jim Helwig: I'm suprised he didn't vote for 90

11:05 Patrick Lynch: there are different session types, Q&A doesn't make sense for some

11:05 Neal Caidin: I agree, no hard line for Q&A

11:05 Neal Caidin: though often nice to have

11:06 Drew Wills: from my perspective, 45 or 50 or 60 makes little difference... the big question is whether we'll offer sessions of different lengths, and i feel we shouldn't

11:06 Amanda Cynkin: no hard line, but the option is nice. some sessions i wished would go longer, some shorter. however, standardizing is useful for scheduling

11:06 Amanda Cynkin: unless you want to say 45 mins in the mornings, 30 in the afternoon, etc

11:06 Patrick Lynch: back to pointers I suggest

11:06 Neal Caidin: Interesting idea to have shorter sessions in afternoon

11:06 Jim Helwig: Interesting point about scheduling different lengths at different times

11:06 Neal Caidin: folks usually have shorter attention span as day goes on

11:07 Amanda Cynkin: that would be me...

11:07 Patrick Lynch: i do

11:07 Neal Caidin: Attendees are the main focus

11:07 Neal Caidin: not presenters!

11:07 Neal Caidin: (imo)

11:07 Amanda Cynkin: i was talking about attendees

11:07 Neal Caidin: I know

11:07 Neal Caidin: agreeing with you

11:07 Amanda Cynkin: the nvm

11:07 Amanda Cynkin: then*

11:08 Neal Caidin: :-)

11:09 Patrick Lynch: good call - thanks Alan

11:09 Matt Hertzog: Good meeting...hope you feel better Alan

11:09 Neal Caidin: +1 thanks Alan

11:10 Alan Regan: Thanks, all!

11:10 Kelly Geng: feel beter.

11:10 Kelly Geng: better