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The Sakai 2.7 release is being improved patch by patch, personal action by personal action. The pyramids were built out of individual rocks moved by great effort and will power. It means a lot to me that I can get into contact with developers who responsively deal with issues. Without that positive energy, my role would be impossible. The community should be looking for more strong armed stone pushers for the final mile.

It seems ideal, in this my last blog entry as Sakai Executive Director, that I get to write about the European Sakai Conference that took place last week in Valencia. This is the third time I've visited Valencia and, as many of you know, it has become a city that I heartily recommend for a family vacation. I've gotten to know the good people at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia fairly well and it was fantastic for me that I was able to say some of "goodbyes" in person and in a place that increasingly feels familiar to me.

A news item was published about the University of Delaware Learning Management System Committee spring meeting on Feb. 23. The LMS Committee is a 41-member University-wide committee whose members are ambassadors to their departments regarding the use of Sakai@UD

The Sakai Product Council has issued the following update to the community, summarizing the activities we conducted through Q4 in 2009 and our goals for Q1 and Q2 in 2010. We welcome your comments and input either on the Sakai Project Management mailing list or in the Sakai wiki version of this update.

When we started the Sakai project in late 2003, our goals were primarily economic. Along with our colleagues at Indiana, Michigan and MIT, we at Stanford wanted to collectively create a single course and collaboration software that we could all deploy on our campuses. We were quickly joined by other schools, most notably UC Berkeley, as active development partners. The first couple of years were hard work, more than any of us had anticipated, and it was through sheer perseverance that we were each able to do our local deployments.

David Goodrum asked me to provide an update to the Oncourse Priorities Committee [1] regarding the progress made towards Sakai 2->3 integration and migration. In doing so, it became clear that this kind of update might also be useful to the community at large.

As you may have read by now, I've accepted a position at LinkedIn and will be stepping down as Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation as of March 15.

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I am pleased to update the Sakai community on the outcomes of a two day coding sprint to produce a Basic LTI consumer widget for Sakai 3. Dr.