Creative Commons Attribution- ShareAlike 2.5 License Sakai Programmer's Café Sakai Oxford Tetra ELF Workshop Welcome to the Sakai Oxford Tetra ELF Workshop Aaron Zeckoski

2 A little about myself (Aaron Zeckoski)Aaron Zeckoski

3 Manager of Application Development

4 Fancy name for: Lead Developer

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6 Learning Technologies

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9 Working on: Masters degree in CS

10 Sakai Fellow URL:

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13 I have been involved in: Desktop Support Network Engineering User Support and Training System and Application Support Database Administration UI Design Software Engineering

14 But mostly, I am a learner like you

15 URL: Want to know more about me for some reason?

16 What about those other 2 guys?

17 Antranig Basman Creator of RSF (more on this later)RSF From Cambridge (in the UK)Cambridge Expert in Java and C++ –And modern code in general Flowtalk creator

18 Ian Boston Sakai Fellow CTO of CARETCARET From Cambridge (in the UK)Cambridge Blogger:

19 So, why are we here?

20 Learn about Sakai Look at some new technolgies Play with some tools Hear some presentations Write some code Have some fun Have more fun

21 Now for some quotes from Alan Key

22 The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Key, Smalltalk creator URL:

23 The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to. - Alan Key, Smalltalk creator URL:

24 I invented the term Object- Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind… - Alan Key, Smalltalk creator URL:

25 What’s your point? Quotes from CS guys are fun As part of the Sakai development community, you have the opportunity to “invent” the future of Academic Computing This is supposed to get you excited about Sakai and community source But… you need tools and (more) skills to contribute to the effort in a meaningful way

26 On with the show then!