Sakai VetMed Technical Meeting
Some technical comments/issues were discussed prior to review of Chris Brandt's SVM Gap analysis for the Spring 2006 pilot.
- Hardware: Dell option chosen as HW for VM
- WebDav Issues: does not work for Macs. Cause is the servelet is broken. Determination of VM programmer action dependent on whether the Sakai collab team makes this issue a high priority. Technical problems dues to addition of semicolon or the file name is too long. Another issue is that after upload 0 (zero) bytes are displayed - the correct file size is not shown.
Estimate on VM population affected: about 15%
Some recommendations from Sakai collab team to use Goliath http://www.webdav.org/goliath/ on MacOS, although some bugs remain w/this browser as well
VM team will wait another week (pending Sakai prioritization) before assigning local programmer on a fix/hack - Possible Ilios demo next week by Keith
- Course Evaluations - brief progress report by Ben
- Note on bug in JIRA: VMS1 - Students not appearing in Site Info until logged in for first time: Scott F. Implemented CourseManagementProvider - but it doesn't work unless you push the "update participants" button.
- Skin/CSS update: looks good!
- Rick and Dan are scheduled to meet with Nancy Olsen (Training & Support) and Chris Sarason (ET Partners) re: Captivate training
- Rick, Dan and Chris B. are participating in the MW-hosted Unicon training sessions over the next 2 Fridays.
- Discussion of technical reasons pro/con for pre-populating resources structure: originally proposed as a work around f